Fort Myers attorney Chris Crowley filed a petition with Charlotte County Court to unseal grand jury proceedings related to a 2014 Charlotte Correctional inmate's death.
Attorneys for Nikoleta Koikos, who last week was convicted of the DUI manslaughter of her boyfriend in 2019, are asking for a new trial, pointing to alleged prosecutorial misconduct and claiming blood tests were admitted as evidence illegally.
Koikos has yet to be sentenced, but the 37-year-old’s attorney David Collins claims jurors were presented blood tests that were not properly admitted into evidence that showed she was high on methamphetamine and fentanyl at the time she ran over and killed Gary Diskerud while the two argued.
She and Diskerud, 34, got into a fight inside her Jeep Liberty at about 4:30 a.m. on January 12, 2019, while driving around Killearn Estates. He jumped out of the vehicle but held onto the door or window as she drove off. Koikos drove over him near the roundabout on Killarney Way, crushing his skull.