Elton’s Case: The Tug
Wyler Mystery Series. Andy Siegel. Rockwell Press. Copyright
2018. pb. 244 pp.; ISBN: 9781981553327.
Elton
Cribbs was arrested and was brutally injured while being transported to
jail. He was paralyzed from the waist
down. A smart man, he researched
everything legal about his case and the end result was that he was freed due to
the real criminal confessing to the crime. But now Elton is suing the City of
New York for causing his physical disability.
Elton becomes the plaintiff attorney, representing Elton Cribbs, facing
a powerful defendant who has numerous witnesses who will testify that Cribbs
was faking his disability and at the same time had participated in several
scenes that caused his own injury.
What
confuses the issue is that the City of NY first offers $1 million to settle the
case. Why would one settle the case if
there was no fault involved, if the evidence was so set in stone to exonerate
the defendant?
So
the lies parade before Elton: A guard swears that while so-called paralyzed she
saw Elton actually stand up from his wheelchair and attack another prison. A examining physician, in a legal test called
an independent medical examination, yields a report that says the plaintiff is
faking, even though Elton was present for the entire exam and saw no movement
or faking behavior. On and on the farcical “proofs” continue and yet the
settlement figure from the City of New York keeps increasing substantially.
The
end of this riveting mystery, full of problems and opposition that confuse and
upset Elton, is such a stunner that the reader will have to read it twice. What has Elton learned from this memorable and
notorious process? What is justice and
how can it fully cover years lost for imprisonment and a questionable and
permanent injury?
The
reader also gets a good view of the personal injury field of the law where one
learns that plaintiffs and defendants have a job, to win their case, whether
that involves truth or lies on both sides.
You won’t forget this case for a long time. Well-crafted and a good read!!!
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