The attorneys for three of Nolan Wells’ friends are reportedly planning to sue Ben Crump. Edward Andrew Paltzik, who represents Warren Hudson, Jax Pitalo and Morgan Seymour, and is pushing back against claims that his clients deleted messages from Nolan’s cellphone.
RELATED: Ben Crump Reveals Miss. State Autopsy Shows No Signs Of Water In Nolan Wells’ Throat Or Lungs & Details Findings From His Cellphone
Here’s Why The Attorneys For Nolan Wells’ Friends Plan To Sue Ben Crump
NewsNation reports that Attorney Edward Andrew Paltzik is shutting down allegations involving his clients, Warren Hudson, Jax Pitalo, and Morgan Seymour. Paltzik maintains that none of the three men deleted messages from Nolan Wells’ phone. Paltzik addressed the allegations further while speaking with TMZ, saying, “Warren, Jax and Morgan did not erase anything and never had access to his phone.” “If anything was erased, they didn’t do it.”
Tyler Cox, another attorney representing Hudson, Pitalo and Seymour, said a woman in the group collected the phones they left on the boat, including Nolan’s, and placed them inside a truck.
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“It stayed there until Christine’s friend came over to get Nolan’s phone,” Cox said, referring to Wells’ mother. “The same girl in the group retrieved the phone from the truck and gave it to Christine’s friend around 1:30 a.m.,” Cox explained.
Now, both attorneys say they plan to sue Ben Crump for defamation. The potential lawsuit follows forensic examiner Andrew Garret’s findings that someone deleted messages from Wells’ phone. He said the deletions occurred 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’ Cellphone
Ben Crump recently joined the legal team representing Nolan Wells’ family for a press conference to share new details from the findings on his cellphone. According to Crump, Nolan sent his last text to his aunt on the evening of July 3. The message read, “Thank you.”
Forensics expert Andrew Garret also broke down the data recovered from Nolan’s phone. Garret said investigators retrieved more than 300 Snapchat messages between Nolan and his friends. He added that analyzing the data took more than 30 hours. The legal team also showed a video tracking Nolan’s phone movements on July 4, along with his Snapchat activity. The data appeared to show that his phone remained on the boat throughout the day before traveling back to land with the group of teens. 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 Findings Raise More Questions About His Death
Ben Crump also turned his attention to Mississippi’s official autopsy findings for Nolan Wells. According to the report, Nolan suffered “two dark red-purple” lacerations to the back of his head before his death. The findings also indicated that examiners did not detect water in his throat or lungs. Those details have raised questions about the circumstances surrounding Nolan’s death, particularly after a recent grand jury determined that he died from an accidental drowning.
