Peter William Berger

I retained Peter Berger for up to and including trial if it went that far. Mr. Berger told me he thought I had a 75% chance of acquittal at trial. When it came time to plea bargain, the prosecutor offered a lesser felony including being added to the sex offender registry. Peter told me they migh...t bargain for a misdemeanor but they'd stick to the registry. When I told him that being on the registry was a hard no, he went back and negotiated. Next the prosecutor offered a alford plea to the same felony, without the sex offender registry. I told Peter no -- If getting off the registry was the harder negotiation, I wasn't going to take a felony. The prosecutor came back with an offer for two misdemeanors, no sex offender registry. Let me take a time out to state that to this day, I believe myself innocent. I can't discuss specifics of the case due to a 5 year no contact order. So with that in mind, I had to think about it. do I risk the "25% chance of hung jury or guilty verdict" or do I take the misdemeanors. At this point, on the phone, Peter Berger made it clear that if I chose to go to trial, he would no longer represent me. To be fair - and the only reason I gave two stars on this review, I had already made my decision before his statements. I would bite the bullet and take the two misdemeanors. I waited two years until the moment my probation expired to make this complaint. I will never get over this, it haunts me daily, and in particular I cannot let his threat stand without trying to make sure the world knows what they are getting in to when they consider retaining Peter Berger.

I hired mr Berger to represent me in a federal charge. He come to the jail and saw me twice. He wouldn’t answer my calls. When I did talk to him at the jail. It was him talking and you listening and you didn’t shed a tear or he was leaving. He would brag about his high profile murder case he ha...d in Omaha and how i needed him to represent me. I wouldn’t suggest mr Berger