The record
doesn’t lie.

A civil litigation firm engaged Rita for a comprehensive medical records review in a wrongful death case involving a deceased plaintiff. The plaintiff’s estate was pursuing a substantial damages claim — one that carried serious financial exposure for the defense.

During the review, Rita identified something the prior review had missed entirely: the deceased was prescribed corrective lenses that were required for safe operation of a motor vehicle — and those glasses were not present at the time of the incident.

That single finding shifted the evidentiary foundation of the case. What had appeared to be a clear-cut liability claim now carried a significant contributory negligence dimension. The discovery directly informed defense strategy and helped the firm preserve millions of dollars in exposure.

Details redacted to protect client confidentiality.

A pattern emerged: a repeat plaintiff — one the courts had seen before — was pursuing a claim of medical disability that prevented him from working. The claim was the basis of his ongoing litigation. It was also, Rita found, a lie.

Through open-source investigation and records cross-referencing, Rita documented that the individual had active ties to demolition sites — an occupation that directly contradicted his stated disability. He was claiming inability to work while actively working in physically demanding conditions that his alleged disability should have precluded.

The individual also carried prior felony convictions tied to the same demolition site environment — a pattern history that added critical context to the credibility of his filings. This was a vexatious litigant using disability as a legal shield, and the record said otherwise.

Identity protected. Court jurisdiction withheld per client agreement.

Some of Rita’s most consequential work happens quietly — in partnership with law enforcement rather than in front of it. In cases involving online child predators and coordinated harassment rings, Rita has prepared forensic reports and investigative documentation used to support active investigations and prosecutions.

This work demands a different standard: not just accuracy, but chain-of-custody awareness, source verification, and report construction that can survive legal scrutiny. Rita has worked alongside law enforcement officers to help build records that hold — to solve cases that rely on digital pattern recognition and document analysis.

The specifics of these cases cannot be disclosed. What can be said is that children are safer because the record was built right.

All details withheld per law enforcement protocol and victim protection standards.

Clutch Justice documented a motion that was physically stamped “Received” by the 56B District Court, then never entered into the Register of Actions — with the official court stamp later obscured using correction fluid and the document returned to the litigant. The intervention was traced to Chief Probation Officer Chrystal Lambert, who intercepted the filing before it could reach a judge.

After nearly four years of analysis, Clutch Justice mapped a pattern of overlapping record failures in Barry County that could no longer be explained as isolated clerical errors. The Register of Actions reflected a manually entered receipt date of September 9, 2025 — contradicting the prosecution’s official claim to the Michigan Supreme Court that service occurred on August 20, 2025, the very day an extension deadline fell. An SCAO investigation confirmed the later date was correct, meaning the appeal was submitted a full month past the original MSC deadline.

Clutch Justice exposed a recurring procedural gap in Michigan’s appellate system: cases where the prosecution technically files on time, yet the incarcerated appellant never receives the document. In a Barry County Circuit Court case, the prosecution told the Michigan Supreme Court that proof of service occurred on August 20, 2025 — but both the defendant’s docket and the court’s own Register of Actions showed the document wasn’t mailed until nearly a month later. The defendant never received it at either claimed date.

Using documented call logs from multiple Michigan correctional facilities, Clutch Justice demonstrated that ViaPath (formerly GTL) — the private vendor holding Contract No. 180000001124 with MDOC — was systematically failing to deliver the phone service the state had already paid for. Calls at St. Louis Correctional Facility were consistently dropping after 12, 17, and 23 seconds across multiple weeks. Families at St. Louis, G. Robert Cotton, and Newberry all reported the same pattern.

Clutch Justice discovered that Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker continued to allow alcohol at office-related events despite a documented 2017 incident in which former Assistant Prosecutor Josh Kuiper was arrested for drunk driving after attending a retirement party tied to the office. Kuiper crashed into a parked car, injuring the occupant. Despite the arrest and subsequent liability, Clutch Justice found that alcohol remained a fixture at office functions — structured as “off the clock” to limit county exposure.

Rita maintains active field notes across ongoing and recently concluded matters. Consistent themes across case work include:

• Institutional records that don’t match across systems — gaps no one was looking for until someone looked.
• Procedural timelines that reveal not just what happened, but what was omitted from the official account.
• Digital footprints — behavioral, transactional, or communicative — that contradict a subject’s stated position.
• Pattern recognition across filings, claims, and court behavior that flags abuse before it becomes entrenched.

If you have a matter that fits any of these categories, the fastest entry point is a Case Integrity & Risk Analysis Brief — a flat-fee engagement with a defined turnaround.