situation were to you defend yourself and your children defend themselves and your business and your property or you let something like this happen and you could be safe from real-time yourself. i m thinking, and i set it to my son, is that it could have been you right there. because you would have fought with him and who knows what would have happened? because at this time, there is a lot of emotion that comes together and you don t have control of either you wouldn t do that, i m pretty sure they re inviting him to do it. the one you have to defend yourself. one thing is the age as well. set the attacker was in his 30s and it was really sort of a two on one situation. we have this image from the daily mail and you can see just how badly jose alva was hurt by the criminals as well, apparently the girlfriend also had a knife in her back. she took it out and she stabbed him as well. she s still working walking free on one of the frustrating thing is that it really does feel like
prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. ashley: alva had to turn over his passport. todd: with that, bring in former prosecutor, now criminal defense attorney. michael, how is this anything other than textbook self defense? michael: i have no idea. i have been looking at this case since i l it was brought to my attention by joe moreno, this is outrageous. a man is working behind the counter being attacked by someone bigger, younger, stronger and he defends himself. he was stabbed prior to that by the deceased s girlfriend and you are going to charge this man
with murder? it is most clear-cut case of self defense almost a textbook case you study in law school. todd: seems to be inverted justice here not only with alvin bragg but jurisdictions throughout the country where the victims are treated like a criminal. how do we stop this? we have to hold the da s accountable and i don t understand how da bragg comes to this conclusion. how do you look at the criminal history of the deceased and say this guy needs to be charged. as far as i know, mr. alva, has no record, he was working, he doesn t own the bodega, he gets attacked and defends himself and the da s office requests $300,000 bail and take his passport.