Friday:
UPDATE: We received the official audio of oral arguments and have posted them here.
TOLEDO — Attorney Peter Pattakos is certainly a man with two faces.
When he represented the family of Amanda Dean, who accused Ashli Ford of harassing them to the point of extortion, he described Ford as being “indecent” to the family and completely disrespectful to Amanda’s memory, and to her sons.
But on Wednesday in U.S. District Court representing Ford, he described her as a respected “prominent public commenter,” who has great political influence.
Pattakos has other faces, too.
He’s has a sort of a face of impatience each time he raises concerns about prosecutorial misconduct and a vast conspiracy of public officials all out to get Ashli Ford. He has a snarly face when he interacts with the press, or dodges direct questions by pushing social media conspiracies.
WARNING
This is the LIVE feed from Wednesday in U.S. Sixth District Court, oral arguments in State vs. Ashli Ford, Appeals Case E-25-0042, of her 2025 felony intimidation convictions.
