Who killed trevors wife in lincoln lawyer

This article contains spoilers for the finale of The Lincoln Lawyer.

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Did Trevor kill his wife in The Lincoln Lawyer Netflix series?
Why did Trevor kill his wife in Lincoln Lawyer?
Did Elliot kill Lara?
Is Trevor innocent in Lincoln Lawyer?
Why did the judge kill Jerry in The Lincoln Lawyer?

It's official. We can't get enough of The Lincoln Lawyer. While we contemplate the date for a season two of the new hit show by Netflix, we should probably talk about the season's ending.

The legal-drama follows Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), a Los Angles lawyer who inherits the practice from his colleague Jerry Vincent after the latter's murder. The season follows the plot-line of "who killed Jerry?" along with a major case that Mickey inherits from Jerry involving a billionaire video game developer. The billionaire in question is Trevor Elliott (Christopher Gorham), who is accused of killing his wife Lara and her boyfriend Jan Rilz after Trevor finds their bodies.

Throughout the season, Trevor maintained his innocence. He admitted to Mickey that he knew his wife was having an affair and didn't fault her for it. Instead, he blamed himself for neglecting their marriage. Meanwhile, Mickey discovers that the jury had been tampered with and bribes had been distributed. Trevor tells Mickey that he believes a Russian billionaire, the father of his college roommate who is trying to acquire his company is behind both the murder of his wife and of Jerry Vincent. His reasoning is that if the couple ends up divorced, Trevor's reputation would take a hit and tank the company he has stakes into, so he killed Lara to prevent that from happening and bribed a juror.

Eventually, Trevor is found not guilty due to Mickey's defense arguing that he simply would not have had enough time to hide his blood stained clothes and the murder weapon in the minutes before the police arrived. Trevor was declared an innocent man. However, it turns out that Trevor did in fact commit the murder and used a drone to hide his clothes and the murder weapon.

He did this in order to keep his ex-wife Lara from divorcing him and ending up with half of the company and the intellectual property for the code he had claimed credit for, but she actually written. If Lara were to divorce Trevor, she would have ended up with everything that made his business worth something, so he killed her and the man she was having an affair with, Jan. Later though, Trevor himself is gunned down at a big company event by a woman tied to Jan.

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Though all this, there is still the issue of who is behind the threat on Mickey's life. Earlier he had thought it may have been the Russian billionaire he'd thought to have close ties to this case. However, we learn that McSweeny, or juror number 7, was the one responsible for killing Jerry on the order of Judge Holder, who along with her husband had accepted a bribe from Trevor and rigged the juror list. After admitting this while being wire-tapped, she is taken into custody by Detective Griggs (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine), who on the case on Jerry Vincent's murder.

Why would the judge rig the list? Well, simply for the monetary gain she was getting. Her side business of accepting bribes and rigging juries was, in fact, quite lucrative. This was also her reason for being behind Jerry's death: he found out about the scheme and she needed to keep it from getting out. If it weren't for the close watch Detective Griggs had on Mickey, he may have been next.

Though many loose ends had been resolved this season, we are still left with questions that will potentially be answered in a second season, should Netflix announce one.

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The Lincoln Lawyer season 1 is streaming now on Netflix and if you’ve made it this far, chances are you’re eager to know whether Trevor Elliott is actually telling the truth about his innocence or if there is more to the story than he’s letting on.

As teased in the trailer, Trevor finds himself on trial for the murder of his wife and her lover. Despite the evidence the LAPD has against him, he remains adamant he’s innocent of the crime he’s been accused of. Luckily, he’s got an incredible lawyer on this side ready to fight against the charges he’s facing in the Lincoln Lawyer himself, Mickey Haller.

Across the season, the writers do an incredible job of pulling audiences back and forth as they try to figure out if Trevor is innocent or guilty. So is Mickey representing an innocent man or is Trevor actually guilty of murder?

Warning spoilers from the first season of The Lincoln Lawyer ahead. If you wish to avoid spoilers, this would be a good time to bounce out of this piece!

Did Trevor kill his wife in The Lincoln Lawyer Netflix series?

While Trevor is adamant to Mickey that he did not kill his wife or her lover, it turns out that he actually did and had been lying about his actions to Mickey the entire time. So just how did he pull it off?

When cops first arrived on the scene after Trevor called 911, he was seen “checking emails” on his phone while waiting for them to arrive. It seemed sketchy, but he wrote it off and the evidence against him seemed to be explained away by Mickey.

In fact, the case Mickey presented was so compelling that the jury found Trevor not guilty. However, there was something that didn’t sit well with Mickey.

A key argument in the case was that only seven minutes passed between when the murders were said to have taken place and when the police arrived on the scene. Given Trevor never left the property and there was no gun recovered at the scene, there was just no way Trevor could have committed the crime and disposed of the evidence within just seven minutes. Or so they thought.

As Mickey pieced together, Trevor wasn’t checking his emails while waiting for the cops to arrive. Instead, he was using his cell phone to fly a drone out into the ocean to dispose of the gun used to kill his wife and her love as well as the bloody clothes he was wearing when committing the murders.

The Lincoln Lawyer season 1 is streaming now on Netflix.

Why did Trevor kill his wife in Lincoln Lawyer?

His reasoning is that if the couple ends up divorced, Trevor's reputation would take a hit and tank the company he has stakes into, so he killed Lara to prevent that from happening and bribed a juror.

Did Elliot kill Lara?

The Lincoln Lawyer ending, explained Still, despite the court verdict, all was not as it seemed. It turns out Trevor did in fact kill Lara and Jan Rilz, and tricked both the jury and Mickey into believing he was innocent.

Is Trevor innocent in Lincoln Lawyer?

Ultimately, he was declared not guilty after it was successfully argued he couldn't have committed the murder and then got rid of his bloodied clothes and gun in the seven-minute window he would have had to have done it in.

Why did the judge kill Jerry in The Lincoln Lawyer?

You see, Judge Holder had been running a side hustle using her position as a judge to rig juries for a significant amount of money with help from her husband. When Jerry found out about the judge's illegal jury tampering, she decided there was no way to protect herself other than to take Jerry out for good.