Accused of murdering his wife and her paramour, the case of Trevor Elliott is probably the biggest case that Mickey Haller has in The Lincoln Lawyer. The Netflix original series is based on the books of the same name by Michael Connelly. Played by Christopher Gorham, who is he and how is he different from the source material?
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Netflix's The Lincoln Lawyer: Who is Trevor Elliott?
In the chart-topping Netflix original series, Trevor Elliott is a game developer and owner of Parallax which launched the video game called “Nocturna.” Trevor Elliott’s character is adapted from The Brass Verdict’s Walter Elliot, a movie mogul. The series tweaked it a bit.
Elliott was accused of murdering his wife, Lara, and her paramour, Jan Rilz. One of the clients of the deceased Jerry Vincent, Mickey Haller inherits his case being the most high-profile one, exactly what Haller needed to be back on the pedestal of the law practice. Surely, winning such a huge case would help Haller get back on his career and on his feet as a lawyer.
However, here comes the challenging part: only a week and a half away from the start of Elliott’s trial, his lawyer dies and Mickey Haller comes in. It’s no easy feat for Haller to pull the case off especially when Elliott didn’t want to push for a continuance or a rescheduling of the trial.
It turns out, Elliott was involved in jury tampering where a juror was planted for his case, McSweeney, and should there be a continuance, a different set of jurors would be picked. Still, Haller managed to pull the case off and even when the planted juror got busted, they won the case fair and square, thanks to Haller’s magic.
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Still, Haller knows better: everybody lies. Elliott is really guilty for killing his wife and her paramour and even if it is just more or less seven minutes, as Haller put it as a defense, Elliott pulled it off by throwing away the clothes with blood and the gun he used in the ocean using his drone. Haller wouldn’t be imprisoned because with a judgment already in his favor, double jeopardy already attaches which means he cannot be tried and convicted for the same offense.
Elliott walks free, however, the brass verdict came for him when Carol DuBois, one of the women of Jan Rilz, the paramour of Lara, shot Elliott when he was launching Nocturna’s sequel. It was street justice that finally put Elliott to his place.
See Trevor Elliott in The Lincoln Lawyer, now streaming on Netflix.