New trial sought for Florida woman convicted of running over boyfriend
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 Liber...
Source: tallahassee.com