Law Suit Filed Against Bradley Allen Williams, Riverside Motorworks and More
December 17, 2009
According to Public Records, Mel Hewitt of the Atlanta based Isenberg-Hewitt Law Firm, which specializes in Personal Injury and PREMISES LIABILITY, has filed a law suit on behalf of Jeffrey Green, on this the very last day of the Statute of Limitations.
The law suit, brought on behalf of Jeffrey Green, the victim of a brutal beating by a Riverside Toyota employee, (See Feature Story), Bradley Allen Williams, names Williams as well as Riverside Motorworks, Riverside Toyota and/or Riverside Auto Group, as well as John Doe Corporation #1 and John Doe Corporation #2, the Floyd County based corporations affiliated with the Riverside Toyota dealership which employed Mr. Green’s assailant, and where the December 18, 2007 attack occurred.
According to witnesses, the Welborns were warned of assailant Bradley Allen Williams violent temper, and even reported threats Williams made to another, South Carolina customer of Riverside Toyota, PRIOR to Williams attack on Riverside Toyota customer Jeff Green. This is a critical element in premises liability, when the owners of a business are aware of the potential danger to posed to their customers, which they then grossly and negligently fail to address and eliminate.
According to the bio at www.isenberg-hewitt.com:
Melvin L. Hewitt, Jr. has been a member of the Georgia Bar since 1985. After completing four years of active duty in the United States Navy, Mr. Hewitt attended college at Lakeland and later Kent State University. He spent the next six years in public law enforcement serving in the uniformed patrol division, the detective bureau and undercover narcotics investigations.
Mr. Hewitt left public law enforcement and entered the corporate world in 1974 where he spent the next seventeen years in the private security industry. Mr. Hewitt held positions in middle and upper management to include district, regional and operational vice president positions and was ultimately named president of Globe Security Systems, Inc., a publically-held, private security firm with over thirteen thousand employees and over one hundred offices in the United States and Europe. Mr. Hewitt left corporate America in 1989 and, along with his wife and partner, Harriet Isenberg, opened a private law practice in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mr. Hewitt represents victims of serious assaults and batteries, sexual assault, child molestation, and families of murder victims. He is an active member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Sandy Springs Bar Association, the American Association of Justice (formerly the ‘Trial Lawyers of America’), the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association (GTLA), the National Crime Victim Bar Association (NCVBA), the National Organization for Victims of Crime (NOVA), and the Lawyer’s Club of Atlanta. Mr. Hewitt is a frequent speaker at NOVA, NCVBA and GTLA functions. He has appeared on television and radio programs speaking on issues of negligent security and civil justice for crime victims, and has published several articles relating to negligent security and crime victim issues in Trial Magazine, Calendar Call and The Connection.
Mr. Hewitt also currently has litigation pending against Steve Lanier, here in Floyd County. Lanier, a former Floyd County District Attorney, is the attorney in the criminal case against assailant Bradley Williams, which was nolle pross’ed earlier this year.
Mel Hewitt has been provided the entire Floyd County case file available in the Floyd County Clerk’s Office, including the two incidence reports filed by neighbors against victim Jeffrey Green, for typical neighbor on neighbor disputes. These incident reports were filed by attorney Steve Lanier, as “Evidence of Violence by Victim” Jeff Green, and yet the responding officers saw no need to pursue these minor incidences further. Yet, ostensibly, the Floyd County DA’s Office chose not to prosecute assailant Bradley Allen Williams for the brutal beating of Green, because of this “evidence”, despite the fact that Green’s his left eye ball was dislodged during the brutal attack on December 18, 2007, requiring the entire left side of his face, including his eyeball socket, be re-constructed with titanium plates.
According to the www.Isenberg-hewitt.com website Some of the Premises Liability cases Mr. Hewitt has successfully brought are:
Callaway {for Beverly Watson, deceased} vs. James Watson - Plaintiff was appointed by the court to represent the children of Beverly Watson. Beverly was murdered by her husband, James Watson. A wrongful death suit was filed prior to Mr. Watson’s being indicted and resulted in a confidential settlement in favor of the children. James Watson was later indicted, tried and convicted of first degree murder.
Mangham v. Robbins - Plaintiffs, the parents of 42 year old David Mangham, filed suit against William Edward Robbins, III, prior to Robbins being indicted claiming that Robbins had murdered their son. The case resulted in a civil judgment against Robbins in the amount of $30,000,000.00. Defendant Robbins was subsequently indicted and found not guilty by a Clayton County, Georgia jury.
Giglio v. Perimeter Mall - Plaintiff was abducted from an up-scale, Atlanta-area mall.during the Christmas holiday season After her abduction the plaintiff was battered and sexually assaulted. The assailants were never located. Suit was filed against the mall for negligent security and the case settled immediately prior to trial. [Confidential Settlement by Agreement].
Sara Pruitt vs. Chateau Communities et al. - Plaintiff was an 88-year old woman living in a mobile community. On two occasions her mobile home was broken into and she was sexually assaulted. The owners/managers ignored her reporting of the initial incidents as “the ramblings of a crazy old lady”. After she was sexually assaulted the 2nd time, local police convinced the mobile home parks’ owner/managers that the reported assaults did take place. Suit was filed against the owner/managers of the mobile home park prior to the arrest of the assailant. Due to her age and health, the victim would have been unable to attend or endure a trial and a settlement was reached without mediation. [Confidential Settlement by Agreement].
Mason v. Chateau Communities et al. Cite - Plaintiff was assaulted and raped in her mobile home, Suit was filed against the assailant and the mobile home park and this was the 2nd sexual assault victim on the premises within three months (see Pruitt v. Chateau above), The defendants were granted summary judgment by the trial court and the plaintiff appealed. The judgment was reversed in favor of the plaintiff. A settlement was reached prior to trial. [Confidential Settlement by Agreement].
“CC” a minor vs. Hidden Hollow Apartments - The plaintiff, a 14-year old cheerleader had just returned from cheerleading practice and while walking between the buildings at her apartment complex, she was dragged into a vacant apartment and raped. Litigation efforts lasted almost three years and a structured settlement which will provide substantially for her needs over ten years was reached prior to trial against the apartment complex and later and additional settlement was reached as to the security company providing security services to the complex. [Confidential Settlement by Agreement].
“LJ’ vs. Ted Overton -The plaintiff, a 12-rear old, visited her “uncle Ted” at his home outside of Atlanta and at his hunting lodge in South Georgia. On three occasions ‘uncle Ted’ put his hands on and inside LJ’s clothing and after fondling her warned her ‘not to tell’ or she would ‘be sorry’. At trial, LJ was awarded $100,000.00 against ‘uncle Ted’. After trial, the judge indicated the amount to be ‘fair’ to everyone, because $l00,000.00 was all ‘uncle Ted’ had.
Black v. Grogan, et al. - Daniel Black left a bar with his friend, Rodney Grogan. Both had been drinking and were, according to the plaintiffs, ‘noticeably intoxicated’. Shortly after leaving the bar, Grogan ran a red light and Black was killed in the crash. Plaintiffs brought suit against the bar and Grogan. After almost two years of litigation, the case against the bar was settled. [Confidential Settlement by Agreement] The case against Grogan is still pending.
Mr. Hewitt and his staff can be reached at:
7000 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd
Building 15, Suite 100
Atlanta, Georgia 30328
Toll Free: 1-877-841-8294
Tel: (770) 351-4400
Fax: (770) 828-0100
By request, members of the Isenberg-Hewitt Law firm are also available for in-person consultations in South Georgia at the locations noted below:
110 Third Avenue, SE
Moultrie, Georgia 31776
State Bar of Georgia – South Georgia Office
244 E. Second St.
Tifton, Georgia 31794
State Bar of Georgia – Coastal Georgia Office
18 E. Bay Street
Savannah, Georgia 31401-1225
Teresa Watson
Comments (11)
Thank goodness. I was beginning to think this matter was buried forever and that justice would not be served. Did your reporting of this story have anything to do with Jeff getting the representation he needed?
I’m sure we can count on you to report things as they unfold. Thank you for all you do in spite of those who critisize and want to make everything about them.
Dear Nosey,
I just cannot say…
tw
I agree with Rosey. Accurate informed transparency for the public would fix a lot of problems,
that exist today in my opinion.
Dear John,
A Free Press and an Informed Public is Vital and necessary to a Free Society.
tw
Hi Teresa
Where is RGS, Do you think he might be at Mr. Hewitt’s website trying to pick him apart?
Good morning RonRon,
I have been away for a week, now, got back Sunday night and am exhausted, but it was all worth it. My son graduated from UGA, a semester early, and my mom turned 80 on that very day. She is an alumnus of UGA, so it was very poignant. But we had to drive down to Florida first, and then back to Athens, then to Florida again.
My daughter, son-in-law and grandkids made the trip, as well, and the four generations had the time of our lives. We listened to music, played games, debated religion, politics and retold stories of practical jokes my daughter and son played on each other years ago.
Then there were the confessions of things they got by mom, while conspiring together. I have not laughed so hard for non-stop action in ages. More than a few beers and bottles of wine were consumed along the way, and I do not even want to get on the scales this week, as the weather was not conducive at any stop along the way for running. (I did, however take my running clothes and shoes, so, perhaps it is the thought and intentions that count).
At the UGA graduation, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was the Keynote Speaker, which thrilled my son beyond belief, as his degree is a Bachelor of International Affairs, and he has studied much of Gates’ CIA background, writings and policies for his degree.
So, I have not had a lot of time to stay up on any website, including mine own. I got a call on Thursday afternoon, a few minutes after this law suit was filed, and because the PI from my story, (you know, the one RGS insists is a figment of my imagination), had already filled me in on some details, my story was ready to simply press “Publish” on.
But you may be on to something here. Either way, RGS is yesterday’s news as far as I am concerned.
tw
Allright, nothing like a good lawyer with a record of suing everyone for everything.
Dear ANON,
LOL is my reaction to your comment. Suing people is what lawyers do. Were you on the band wangon asking why Bobby Lee Cook sued me with a bogus and fraudulent Plainitff who did not even know her name was used to sue me? Were you on this same bandwagon when Bobby Lee Cook sued me for Constitutionally protected Free Speech, which is further underscored by 47USC230?
This case is one where something horrible has been done against an innocent customer of Riverside Motorworks. This sort of litigation is one of the primary litigations in United States Civil Litigation, based on Tort issues from centuries old British Common Law. When someone intentionally hurts another, whether physically or financially, or grossly violates another’s rights, that is a tort, and it gives rise to a right of action against the perpetrator.
Duhhhhhhh….
Your response reminds me of something Jack Harris, the attorney representing Bobby Lee Cook and Kristina Cook Connelly out as a final paragraph in a 2nd Motion to Dismiss, one of almost ten attempts at quashing Discovery which they have filed in the law suit I have brought against them.
Jack Harris wrote:
“The Plaintiff in this case is desperate to find some type of claim for money damages against the Cook Defendants in an effort to annoy and harass them”,
I responded:
“Each of the Cook Defendants and their attorney are lawyers who spent a life time looking for some type of money claim for themselves and their clients. They have amassed fortunes over the decades, not only annoying and harassing individuals, but often destroying lives in the process. Plaintiff therefore finds the final two paragraphs of Cook Defendant’s Motion a classless rendition of their frequently duplicitous behavior, shifting moral imperatives and double standard”.
I am guessing you may related to former DA Steve Lanier, who is now representing Bradley Allen Williams, the Riverside Motorworks employee who so brutally beat the victim, Jeff Green, on the Riverside Toyota property. I suggest this because Mr. Hewitt who is now suing all of them on behalf of Jeff Green, also has current litigation filed against Mr. Lanier for some unsavory acts.
So, perhaps, I should write a follow up article about this litigation against Mr. Lanier, so that the community can learn what kind of attorney Steve Lanier is.
tw
As some might have noticed I have not made comments on this website concerning the Jeff Green case, and in particular, to the comments made by Romegasir who has attacked both you and your story. I am more than interested in what caused these attacks.
I have not done so, because Romegasir contracted me privately through a feature on another site.
He was interested in the major interest in what was referred to as his identity crisis. Shortly thereafter he attacked you here and tried to discredit your story. In response I think you jokingly referred to him as working at the the district attorney’s office. As you know, you and I have discussed that possiblity and there was no doubt in my mind that you were joking as you often do with him.
But in the last several weeks, RGS cannot leave it alone. Like a child picking at a scab, he keeps bringing it up, even though you have not mentioned it in close to two weeks. I read your recent update last week which proves that the bulk of what you presented to readers was accurate and well documented with public records. It is also obvious that an attorney of Mr. Hewitt’s caliber would never have touched the case if he thought there was a problem with basis premise.
You did not refer to RGS or rub it in his face, but he still is going on and on about being with DA’s office, and trying to make you look like a fool. No one is right all the time, not you, not me, and not RGS though he would never admit it. However, In this case, as in many of your cases, you have proven your point.
Now RGS has attacked me, and I can only assume it is because he knows that I am big fan of yours and your site. His mistake though was attacking me only after letting his guard down. When this case first started, he mentioned to me in a PM, that he had posted from a government I. P. address, and that ever since, you have thought he was with the DA’s office.
I guess my first question would be, Why would RGS assume that TW would assume just any old government I.P. address was necessarily attached to lthe DA’s office, unless it was.
How careless for such a smart person (Just ask Him) as RGS. I can only assume you have hit a nerve, and it wasn’t a funnybone. This is serious business.
I know RGS has had a long and ongoing contact with you. Question is, Was RGS with the DA’ office when he first started contacting you? Is he still with the DA’s office, and if not, who used to be at the DA’s office when your first started your website, but is no longer there, a person who obviously has plenty of time on his hands
Maybe he is not now or has never been with the DA’s office, not now nor two years ago, but held a high enough position at the Courthouse, that he/she felt comfortable enough stopping in at the DA’s office and sitting down at one of their computers, and posting from there. The DA would never like or allow this.
Whoever it was has blown any loyalty I felt, because whoever RGS is, he chose to attack me in the wee small hours of the morning under a thread on RomeNewswireForums, thread called “What happened to RomeNewsWire”. I have been silent on the subject since he and I communicated several weeks ago, despite the fact that for so long he has been aggressively poised against Lorraine Lemming’s situation, often posting cruel, and outright gossip and trivia about her.
Now this morning RGs has attacked me once again and accused me of hating Law Enforcement, a fact most honest and reputable LE know is not true. In fact RGS and others may be surprised in coming weeks and months to learn just how mich I do support their efforts, and that Is I will say on that subject at this time.
In closing, Even if there not an investigation planned by any group into who RGS is, now that I am revealing his confession concerning posting to your website from a government website, I can only imagine that this will more than peak their interst in doing so.
Dear MIB,
Wow. That is some revelation.
RGS posted from a government I.P. address? I have no way of ever verifying that anyone’s I.P. address is a government one, unless their e-mail address shows up as a .gov or .us or some other government based e-mail address. RGS has always been careful not to post from his actual, official e-mail account, so, his revelation to you is something I had never been aware of.
I guess I really did hit a nerve a few weeks ago, and his fear got the best of him. He got careless, did he not?
Still, it will not be up to me to chase him down or hound him. As you say, his own confession to you, which you reveal now, combined with his attack on you AFTER he buddied up to you, may be his undoing.
tw
PS - Do you realize what an impact on major cases this could have, including the Sam Parker Conviction? If it was discovered that someone with close enough ties to the DA’s Office where Leigh Patterson sits, who prosecuted the Sam Parker case, was able to comfortably sit down at one of their computers and post to websites?
I hope he/she never posted about the Sam Parker Case to from the DA’s office. But just the mere fact that he/she had access to the DA’s computers, while that case was on-going, and that he/she has been very vocal on several websites about the Sam Parker case, could be enough to get the conviction overturned! OMG.
tw
Ms. Watson,
I tried the link to your e-mail, and it doesn’t work, so I pasted the e-mail address from your contact page and sent you an e-mail. It bounced back.
Dear Lenore,
If you are new to this website, you may not know that one of the attorneys attempting to violate free speech, Bobby Lee Cook, actually convinced, through threats of litigation, the companies I had contracts with to host my website and portals to the internet.
Both entities, TenPearls.com and 1and1.com removed me from the world wide web, and I had to move my web hosting off shore where Free Speech is Really Protected. That was in February, but ever since, my e-mail connection has not worked, and many of my files are permanently lost.
So, please simply post a link to www.romenewsbywatson.com, if there is something your desire someone to see.
I will contact you through my personal e-mail address, if you need to share something which you do not want others to see, but PLEASE do not share this with anyone.
Thank you,
Teresa Watson
Please e-mail me if you don’t mind. I have a question for you and it does not pertain to this case. I promise I won’t reveal your e-mail.
I have been reading your website for a while now but that last post was my first. I appreciate and enjoy what you do for this community and I think you are very brave. There will always be people like you, just not enough of them. I include myself because I am not brave. I have a relative that reminds me of you, and he scares the living daylights out of me sometimes. I try to tell him to let things go but he can’t. God bless him and people like you.
Dear L,
Sent an e-mail a few minutes ago.
tw
I didn’t contact MIB……he contacted me……..first post “Watson’s really on your case huh?”……..that ring a bell MIB????? Notice, no LOL, cuz I too mean what I say………..
Watson and I have exchanged private emails in the past (some of the contents of which she posted publicly in the desire to show that I was wrong about a case)……..but if watson remembers back to those and if MIB remembers most conversations we’ve had, he’d realize the REVELATION that I once posted from a gubment computer reveals absolutely nothing………I’m sure MIB is too smart to think I would ever be “befriended” by him or anyone like him………..but I could be wrong…..
For those who are not lost causes, it was me RGS who brought up the possible effect on several cases including the Parker case if I was in any way affiliated with the DA’s office…….yet weeks later teresa screams “OMG” as if she has discovered something……..
If the DA stuff was a joke, as claimed by MIB….why the “this is serious stuff” and a formal request for an investigation?????????? I tell u why……at the time some idiots believed it, but now they’re backtracking…………………… MIB claims that my constant joking about my “working at the DAs office” is an attempt to make u look foolish………….so what MIB is saying is “TW, rgs is trying to make u look foolish by repeating what u say”………..think about that for a while and see how it sets with u…….
Once again u and ur posters can’t help but make it abt me…………
How’s that investigation of the DAs office comin????????????
Dear RGS,
I do not know what or why MIB claims what he does, unless it is true, except for the part I know is true.
In his claim about his conversations with me, he is right on. We have had conversations about you over the last two years, and he would always insist you were with the DA’s office, and I have ALWAYS insisted you are not.
That is why he knew it was a joke, because I have held my ground for two years against his insistence.
He KNEW when he saw my comment that I was joking, because I have told him time and again that he was WRONG.
BTW, I have never posted what you wrote to me in any e-mail. I have referred to it generally, as I have generally referred to similar issues communicated to me by others.You make accusations, as if they are fact, about things I have implied or things I have joked about. You infer what is not meant to be implied.
And I am not sure what to make of that, RGS.
I hope you, and All of my readers, have a very Merry Christmas. I hope everyone really thinks about what Christmas is, because It/He is much bigger, and much more important than you, me, my readers or this website.
tw
Amazing how many people attempt to find the true identity of RGS. Why? Is there something exceptional that he adds to any discussion? I am pretty sure I have him pegged myself and it isn’t the DA’s office that employs this gentleman. No, my fair guess is you don’t need to look much further than the FCPD to find this subjects identity. His knowledge of cases and his willingness to talk about it gives him right away. There are very few people that would fit the mold and have the information that he does. Maybe I’m just barking up the wrong tree, maybe not.
I find it insulting that he tries to denounce the investigations of Ms.Watson. Maybe if he did his job a little more effectively things like this wouldn’t happen.
Dear T,
Welcome to the site.
I love your user name - Mount , Taxpayer Bill of Rights or College?
Now, you share an interesting perspective – the FCPD vs the DA’s Office. Of course, as you well know, FCPD never investigated this particular case. This was an RPD case, which went to the DA’s Office. Still, I hope RGS has never communicated, public or otherwise, any information which has adversely affected an ongoing case, or compromised his/her oath of office.
There is always room to evaluate and challenge conclusions drawn from lack of evidence or flawed evidence. Reasonable discourse demands challenges, and I am not above mistakes or error. His/her pointing out a flaw in logic, or challenging the evidence is alright, but when the evidence is hard fact, and is part of public record, and when the doctors reports are so detailed, on top of a violent history by the perpetrator, one would think that a logical and reasonable mind would demand answers.
Questions like HOW this one got by the DA’s office and WHY should be part of public discourse, not a visceral and frantic attack of the bearer of facts, the victim in this case, and anyone else who questions the investigation and the DA’s actions, (or lack thereof).
Now, with an attorney involved, perhaps the public will get answers to these, and other, questions.
tw
I am so glad to see that someone has come forward to represent Mr. Green. I would love to see them stick it to BW as I said in another post I have seen his violent temper in action. Best of Luck to Mr. Green and if we can help in anyway.. would love to.
Dear AP,
Thank you so much for commenting, and welcome to the site. PLEASE, if you have witnessed Mr. Williams’ violent temper, PLEASE contact Mr. Hewitt. His website is www.Isenberg-Hewit.com, and the phone number is 770-351-4400. Since you are offering, I will pass on your e-mail adress to them.
tw
PS - Saturday Night, January 30, 2009:
It was so good to meet you and your husband, (and your football playing son) last night. I will be posting the article Sunday evening. Glad there has been contact with Mr. Hewitt’s office. It takes courage to come forward and stand up against someone who is so violent.
tw
I’m happy an attorney stepped up to represent Mr. Green. Cutting it close though. This may settle the matter.
Dear Room4,
Cutting it close, indeed, but a last minute reprieve works just as well, in the long run.
tw