“The Second One Is Worse”: ZeroDarkTony Predicts Escalating Plea Pressure on Defendant Scott Hochstetter

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Anthony R. D’Amato, Jr., also known as ZeroDarkTony, spent a substantial portion of a July 30, 2026 YouTube livestream analyzing the legal situation of his rival Scott Hochstetter, also known as DOA, a defendant he described as facing a felony plea deadline the following day. D’Amato walked through sentencing ranges, prosecutorial strategy, and what he predicted would happen if Hochstetter rejected any deal and proceeded to trial.

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D’Amato outlined what he characterized as standard prosecutorial escalation tactics, predicting that Hochstetter’s second plea offer would be structured more harshly than the first. He stated on stream that prosecutors typically return with a worse offer late in the process, framing refusal as having had a chance and passed on it. D’Amato then estimated likely outcomes: he said the deal could include “90 days, a year,” that a conviction carrying a year would likely result in six months in county jail, and that while Hochstetter had mentioned seven years as a possibility, D’Amato did not expect that outcome for a first offense. He added, however, that prosecutors would “bring in all of his past bad acts, like the assault on the officers, like, you know, like all the other arrests that he had.”