Lawyers for three Nolan Wells’ friends reportedly plan to sue Ben Crump. Edward Andrew Paltzik, who represents Warren Hudson, Jax Pitalo and Morgan Seymour, and pushes back against allegations that his clients deleted messages from Nolan’s cell phone.
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Here’s why the lawyers for Nolan Wells’ friends plan to sue Ben Crump
NewsNation reports that attorney Edward Andrew Paltzik is closing charges related to his clients, Warren Hudson, Jax Pitalo and Morgan Seymour. Paltzik insists that none of the three men deleted messages from Nolan Wells’ phone. Paltzik addressed the allegations further while speaking to TMZ, saying, “Warren, Jax and Morgan never deleted anything and never had access to his phone.” “If anything was deleted, they didn’t do it.”
Tyler Cox, another attorney representing Hudson, Pitalo and Seymour, said that a woman in the group collected the phones they left on the boat, including Nolan’s, and put them inside a truck.
“He stayed there until Christine’s friend came over to get Nolan’s phone,” Cox said, referring to Wells’ mother. “The only girl in the group retrieved the phone from the truck and gave it to her friend Christine around 1:30 a.m.,” Cox explained.
Now, the two lawyers say they plan to sue Ben Crump for defamation. The possible trial follows forensic investigator Andrew Garrett’s findings that someone removed messages from Wells’ phone. He said they were deleted after Wells last used the device on July 4 and before his family got it back.
Ben Crump reveals what was found on Nolan Wells’ mobile phone
Ben Crump recently joined the legal team representing the family of Nolan Wells for a press conference to share new details from the findings on his cell phone. According to Crump, Nolan sent his last text to his aunt on the evening of July 3. “Thank you.”
Forensics expert Andrew Garrett also broke down the data recovered from Nolan’s phone. Garret said investigators recovered more than 300 Snapchat messages between Nolan and his friends. He said analyzing the data took more than 30 hours. The legal team also showed video tracking Nolan’s phone movements on July 4, along with his Snapchat activity. The data seemed to show that his phone stayed on the boat all day before he traveled back to land with the group of teenagers. But Garret said the Snapchat data raised another question. According to his findings, someone deleted Snapchat data from Nolan’s phone before his family got the device back.
Wells’ Autopsy Results raise more questions about his death
Ben Crump also turned his attention to the official Mississippi autopsy results for Nolan Wells. According to the report, Nolan suffered “two dark purple lacerations” to the back of his head before he died. The results also showed that investigators did not find water in his throat or lungs. Those details have raised questions about the circumstances surrounding Nolan’s death, especially after a grand jury recently ruled that he died of accidental drowning.
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