Royal Oak Woman's Murder Trial On Hold

ROYAL OAK, MI — The trial of a Royal Oak woman charged with second-degree murder has been delayed. Jenell Bailey is accused of causing the death of Pavlos Frank Dion in June of 2016 when she ran into the back of his Chrysler Sebring in Eastpointe. She accepted a plea deal in April and then changed her mind — something the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office is trying to fight, according to a Macomb Daily report.

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"Bailey’s attorney, Lillian Diallo, said her client should be able to go to trial. “If you’re going to plead as charged, you might as well go to trial,” Diallo said. “There’s no benefit” to pleading.

“This court went through the process and made sure that it was Ms. Bailey’s decision to plead guilty and nobody else, and made sure that she wasn’t being pressured or influenced by anyone, but her own decision to plead guilty and she did that,” Assistant Macomb Prosecutor Joshua Van Laan. “I ask you deny the motion outright and let the Court of Appeals decide if they want to bring it to them.”

For more, go to the Macomb Daily.

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