Peter Tragos

And as a criminal defense lawyer, the way you want to look at it and what your duty is and how you try a case, how you handle a case, all of those roles are incredibly different than a prosecutor.

who is only there to find truth and justice.

And sometimes that's making hard decisions and letting people you think might be guilty go and not prosecuting those cases because you have all the leverage, all the power to ruin people's lives.

There's very little repercussion when you lose.

And that's a very big responsibility and power that you have as a prosecutor that makes that job very different than a criminal defense lawyer or any type of civil lawyer.

And that to me was where this case could have been handled more appropriately.

Yeah, I mean, there was some talk that there was a ring camera and then there wasn't.

And maybe somebody accessed the ring camera and maybe they didn't.

And somebody across the street had a ring camera.

Yep.

Yeah, absolutely.

There's cameras all over the place, but somehow during that period of time, there was no camera on any house in that neighborhood that could have caught it or even back at John O'Keefe's house.

There was some ring camera, but not that could show anything that we needed to show to prove the accident.

That was just a mistake.

For them to even go for that was such a mistake.

They were never going to be able to prove anything like that.

And I'll tell you, the number one thing, and again, it's probably based on my experience, what I do so much of seeing injuries in these pedestrian accidents, it is just so far from anything I think is remotely scientifically or physically possible for that Lexus to just break on the taillight, not have any other dents and damages on it,

and then the injuries that corresponded john o'keefe and we didn't even get into the bite marks versus scratch marks or any of that but right right the injuries just attacked him yeah they just they just don't line up to me the injuries for it to be a car accident the way that the prosecution described and that's so hard for me to get over