Topping the list of what Richard Mithoff has learned in 46 years as a trial lawyer is this useful gem: “I always believe the plaintiff is exhibit A.”

And that’s how Mithoff, 71, won a $27.7 million judgment Friday for the family of a man killed while riding his bicycle—without any eye witnesses or hard evidence to prove how it happened.

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