My question involves injury or loss that occurred in the state of:New York
My case involves criminal tresspass in the back of my house last year by 5 seventeen year olds which resulted in felony gang assault.
I received a head injury (and a shoulder injury) from several dozens blows to the side of my head as I held the gang leader in a headlock to prevent him from punching me in the face, and to fend off secondary attacks to my face and head from the other thugs.
I was partially paralyzed at that time in the neck and the left shoulder from a sports injury which one could visibly see from my bad upper body posture so I believe this made me seem like an easy target to these punks.
While this assault was taking place my 78 year old mother came out of our house, and foolishly tried to protect my back from blows by the other hoodlums which I was receiving (but didn't even feel due to the pain from the blows to my head from the lead ruffian) by raising her hands behind me. Her left hand was broken in 2 places as a result of this action by one or more blows from the thugs in the back of me.
The 2 main perpetrators were caught by the police with my help only because these morons came back to the scene of the crime 3 weeks later. They were charged with 2nd degree assault (a class D felony in NYS), 3rd degree assault(the police only bothered to catch 2 of the perpetrators instead of 3 or more so the gang assault on me, a class C felony, became 3rd degree assault which is just a class A misdemeanor in NY), harassment in the 2nd degree, and criminal tresspass.
The ADAs in Queens County, NY are overburdened so they look to dispose of cases with minimal work on their part. In the end all the defendants had to do was plead guilty to 3rd degree assault in open court, do 5 days of community service, and pay a small fine for a disorderly conduct violation so they won't even have a criminal record for two felony assaults.
Now I have a written admission of guilt from the two defendants which may result in a judgement in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the 5 personal injury lawyers that I have contacted so far had no interest in accepting this case on a contingency basis. They prefer to sue insurance companies or businesses on a contingency basis. This in a way is surprising to me because at 18 these defendants may have limited resources, but in a few years they will have jobs so their wages may be garnished, and any substantial assets that they acquire may be attached. The judgement should be huge in this case considering that my father's settlement amount was 300K when he was ACCIDENTALLY hit by a car which broke his hip in Queens, NY a few years ago. In my opinion a huge judgement should make it worthwhile for an established law firm to hound down these bastards over a period of time until they pay every penny of the judgement.
Am I overlooking something here or do I just have to accept the fact that in NYC the criminal / civil justice system is biased in favor of the criminal, and that I am just spinning my wheels trying to rectify a grave injustice through it?
Thank you for your responses.

