Defense Verdict in Pedestrian Knockdown Case
RKT Attorney John Komar won a defense verdict in a pedestrian knock down case where the plaintiff was hospitalized for more than a year with a traumatic brain injury and multiple skull fractures.
In Grodzki v. Olkowski, Kings County Index Number 2663/05, our client denied being involved in the accident despite the testimony of the plaintiff’s son who identified him as the driver and claimed to recognize him from the neighborhood.
Through an effective use of live testimony and documentary evidence at trial, John convinced the jury that our client was on his way to JFK airport with a passenger at the time of the accident and was not operating the vehicle which struck the plaintiff. John first offered the testimony of the passenger in our client’s vehicle and the local dispatcher who booked the ride. John then bolstered his line of defense with an employee from Lot Polish Airlines who testified that the passenger was in fact booked for a flight to Poland out of JFK on the night of the accident.
John even admitted into evidence a copy of the passenger’s bank statement which corroborated the testimony that the client and the passenger stopped at the bank on the way to the airport. In response to his persuasive presentation, the Brooklyn jury found that our client did not operate the vehicle that struck plaintiff and delivered a defense verdict. |
