Apr 12, 2021
YOUNGSTOWN – The aggravated vehicular homicide trial scheduled to begin today before Mahoning Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney has been delayed until July 6.
A spokeswoman for Sweeney’s court announced the case against Michael Malvasi II has been continued, but she did not give a reason why jury selection was postponed this morning.
Malvasi’s attorney John Juhasz did not immediately return a call seeking comment about the delay.
Malvasi, 30, of Timber Run Drive Road, Canfield, is charged in the Nov. 18, 2017, traffic death of Ryan Lanzo, 23, of Boardman, who prosecutors say was a passenger in Malvasi’s car, which crashed on a curve along Shields Road in Canfield Township.
YOUNGSTOWN The aggravated vehicular homicide trial of Michael G. Malvasi II, which has been scheduled and then postponed four times since COVID-19 began, looks possible for Monday on the fifth try.
It will be heard by Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, who has requested additional jurors be called to the courthouse in an effort to overcome COVID-19 concerns.
A Nov. 18, 2017, crash killed passenger Ryan Lanzo, 23, of Boardman, resulting in Malvasi’s charges. The charges were almost three years old when the trial was reset last October.
Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Mike Yacovone expressed disappointment when that postponement took place.