Nick Viall

how seeing that context and the energy in this video and the darkness can completely change people's perspective on what we're hearing or seeing.

I think there's two sides to that because the district attorneys who would have read this case, who have done plenty of cases before, would understand what that means in writing.

I think that the general public shouldn't be exposed to that as much as attorneys working in the criminal system are.

And so it is a very different and much more visceral reaction to seeing it on video.

But it's also why when you look at high-profile trials, if there are videos, if there are audio, if there are recorded phone calls, they try to play that for the jury to bring them into exactly what's happening.

There's a reason they say a picture is worth a thousand words, a video even more so, because it is much more visceral.

Words on a page do not convey to everyone the same thing that a video is going to, and

This video is incredibly visceral for people and triggering and difficult to watch.

And the fact that it was in existence for three years and and just became part of the public discussion around this case because there are now, it seems, incidents being investigated.

The timing to me raises a lot of eyebrows and how close it was raises eyebrows.

But I also have a lot of eyebrows for ABC because I can't imagine, and please, I have way less experience in reality TV than I do in criminal law.

But wouldn't production, if they're filming with Dakota, have asked to see this video?

Because they knew it existed in all the documents.

So wouldn't they have all known what was out there, even though the public hadn't seen it?

I think that's what we're all shocked by.

Again, in my experience, I'm just shocked that this didn't happen.

Again, I have too many experiences and have heard too many stories of far less serious situations happening where people, chances were taken away from them.

I mean...

we all remember you remember uh peter kraus of course right uh if you don't remember he was about to be named the bachelor gma made an announcement tomorrow we're announcing our next bachelor it was set up they promoted it and then all of a sudden they were like we're no longer naming our next bachelor and i don't know what happened but my understanding calls were made information was discovered and at the 11th hour before they are going to announce it they didn't now again i don't know why

I know of another situation that not too long ago, someone was going to be named the next lead.