Character Guest Post: Pancho McMartin of David Myles Robinson's TROPICAL DOUBTS #characterday

Today is character guest post day! We have Pancho McMartin from David Myles Robinson's TROPICAL DOUBTS. Enjoy!

Aloha from Honolulu, dear readers. My name is Pancho McMartin and some consider me to be Hawaii’s best criminal defense attorney (although I’m way too humble to say so myself). Together with my private investigator and best friend, Drew Tulafono, a former NFL lineman, we have won more than our share of cases, often proving who the actual culprit (murderer) was. However, as you can see from the first page of Tropical Doubts, I had just lost three jury trials in a row and may be having a bit of a crisis of confidence, which is certainly not the best state of mind to have as I begin this latest legal adventure.

I get wrangled into representing an old friend of my parents when the wife falls into a permanent vegetative state following what should have been a routine surgical procedure. Medical malpractice cases are not my specialty, which is why I hired Padma Dasari, the former chief medical examiner for the city and county of Honolulu as my medical consultant but after whom I’d been lusting for years. What can I say? Beauty, brains, and a dry, sarcastic sense of humor turn me on.

As if handling a difficult and expensive malpractice case weren’t stressful enough, my client (the husband) gets arrested for the murder of one of the doctors. So now I have a medical malpractice case and a murder case; my parents add to the pressure by coming to Honolulu to watch the trial; and I’m spending money on expert witnesses in the malpractice case as if I have it to spend.

          Speaking of a dry sense of humor, you may be wondering how I got my strange name. My parents dropped out of college in the late 60s and moved to Taos, New Mexico to join a hippie commune. Their story is that they named me Pancho so that I’d fit in better in the mostly Hispanic community once I was school age. My theory is that they dropped acid to celebrate the fact that I had all my fingers and toes and an apparent working brain despite all the drugs they had taken and, while stoned, they named me Pancho. They since left the hippie life and moved to Santa Fe to write self-help books full of psychobabble bullshit they learned in their counterculture life, becoming millionaires in the process.

          When I’m not representing the crème de la crème of criminals, Drew and I hit the surf on our longboards. Surfing, for me, clears my head and is the perfect reminder that I live in paradise.

       

 

When Honolulu’s flamboyant and quirky attorney, Pancho McMartin, agrees to step out of his normal role as a criminal defense lawyer, he thinks it will be a challenging but welcome change from his daily dose of criminal clients. His old friend and father-figure, Manny Delacruz, has beseeched Pancho to handle a medical malpractice claim against the physicians who botched what should have been a routine surgery, but which resulted in Manny’s beloved wife being in a permanent vegetative state. The case looks good, the damages enormous, but when Manny is arrested for the murder of one of the doctors, Pancho finds himself back in his old role. If Manny is convicted, it means he won’t be able to be at his wife’s bedside to hold her hand, caress her face, and read his poems to her. He will have lost his reason to live. The pressure on Pancho is enormous. While he and his team try to make sense out of one of the most sinister and complicated murder schemes he’s ever seen, the medical malpractice case chugs forward, in jeopardy of being worthless should Manny be convicted.

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David Myles Robinson was a trial attorney in Honolulu, HI for 38 years before retiring to the mountains of New Mexico, where he lives with his wife, a former Honolulu trial judge. In the days of yore, before becoming a lawyer, he was a freelance journalist and a staff reporter for a minority newspaper in Pasadena, CA. He is an award-winning author of six novels, three of which are Pancho McMartin legal thrillers set in Honolulu.

Having traveled to all seven continents, he has also published a travel memoir entitled CONGA LINE ON THE AMAZON, which includes two Solas Traveler’s Tales award winners.
He says he includes his middle name, Myles, in his authorial appellation because there are far too many other David Robinson’s running around.

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