So, even though
we all know Nick fucked around and found out,
how the police executed the warrant may
possibly have a significant impact on the state's prosecution of Nick. The minor child not allowing police in can
very easily be hand-waved away as them (the kid) being responsible in the face of stranger danger. The police ramming their way into a property they haven't yet properly served with a warrant? Not so much.
Honestly, rushing entry when they
know there are guns could have put the officers into unnecessary danger because Minnesota has a codified Castle Doctrine statuate. It's a different state jurisdiction (with a
very different political will behind it), but Breonna Taylor's boyfriend famously
settled a shootout with the police that
he started when (if you believe the official narrative) the police botched the execution of a similar drug-related search warrant. 2 million bucks to a drug dealer, for a shootout he initiated, on grounds of self-defense, all because the because the cops hadn't yet established contact to serve the warrant before they tried to enter. It's the type of precedent that Nick can very easily translate to his own situation as a legal argument.