LISBON — A recent motion filed by convicted murderer Tyrell Travers asking to have his conviction set aside and to be resentenced has been denied.

Travers filed the motion himself from prison in Marion last week, saying the resentencing was needed to “correct a manifest injustice.”

He was convicted two years ago for the May 19, 2021 shooting death of Dion McMillon in East Liverpool. A jury found the 28-year-old Wellsville man guilty of aggravated murder and murder, along with firearm specifications, after a trial in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court in May 2023, two years after the shooting.

At the time, Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge Megan Bickerton described Travers’ actions as calculating and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus three years for using a firearm to take the life of McMillon, who was 26 years old when he was killed.

Attorneys for Travers lost an appeal filed in Seventh District Court of Appeals to challenge the conviction and the Supreme Court of Ohio declined to accept jurisdiction.

In the memorandum to support his motion, Travers said the motion was made under Criminal Rule 32.1 and that the sentence of life without parole was a violation of his rights.

In her denial of the motion, Bickerton noted that the defendant wrote that the motion was pursuant to Criminal Rule 32.1.

“Criminal Rule 32.1 is a request to withdraw a guilty plea. The defendant never entered a guilty plea in this case. The motion is denied,” Bickerton wrote.

The jury found him guilty, with Travers never entering a guilty plea himself.