State of Minnesota v. Nicholas Rekieta, Kayla Rekieta, April Imholte

[shameful existence]

This used to be the one thread I was able to follow.

Thank you, featured content.

 

[Goofy Logic]

I don't know the procedure for adding charges, like when they could be added given the case progression. But I speculate they needed the base charges so they could upgrade them later. The different charge on Kayla is looking less like a typo, and more like something specific they found, and may want to extend to Nick later as they develop the case.

That's a very good point. CPS is going to interview the kids, and their report to the prosecutor will likely result in more specific charges. The initial CPS charges are likely related to what the police had gathered from the reporting parties.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Only making a joke.

Ah, apologies then.

 

[Laughing Putin]

I thought Robert Barnes had a good reputation. Why would he want to throw it all away for a scumbag like Nick Rekeita?

 

[Barry McKockner]

Has it been established exactly how the guns were unsecured? Were they strewn about everywhere all willy-nilly or was it that the cop used scary wording because they didn't have a trigger lock on them? I can kinda read that there was an AR in the master bedroom and I think I saw somewhere that it was under the bed but that doesn't tell me much. Everything else seems to have been in some safe. I'm not saying Nick is innocent but I trust cops and the legal system as much as I trust a blitzed Nick. I'm a little leary of the wording I'm seeing come from the cops.

Minnesota has requirements for firearm storage:

 

[Meat Target]

Kids don't lie about being hungry. The warrant, which the cop applied for under penalty of perjury, says that is the basis for it.

Who should I believe? Them, or a gaggle of grifters whose job is literally to lie?

 

[Xarpho's Return]

It's literally the cope that weirdos use to say information from the "ebil Kiwi Farms" should be discarded because it's from an evil website known for wrongthink and wanting to kill the trans even when it's shown to be completely fucking correct and archived. "These people have it out for us so you shouldn't believe anything they say, yes please ignore that the information is accurate."

I don't give a shit what the source of information is if the information is fucking correct. The Kiwis were correct for years before it was officially confirmed.

At this point, Kiwi Farms is only reporting the news. People from Nick's church noticed the kids were in pitiful condition and suspected neglect. Cops watched Nick's own streams and correctly deduced that he was using hard drugs. A legal warrant was signed, and surprise, surprise, drugs and other shit was found.

I'm not sure how you could blame KF for any of that.

 

[Mark Goldbridge]

No way one of the officers that served the warrant was named Sergeant J. Moon

 

[Autistic Orson Welles]

I can't imagine having more probable of a cause than video of the guy doing cocaine on a livestream. As a layman, that alone seems like way more than enough for a search warrant; what evidence could possibly be better in this circumstance? A cop watching him do it in person? There's no way to reach that bar. Add in statements from his own children, his congregation, and a mandatory reporter, and you are obviously well past probability. That this warrant is somehow bad is ridiculous cope. Barnes has 85 IQ and subsists solely from grifting off of an audience that knows nothing about the law.

But the one thing that does seem strange to me is that the neglect allegations weren't followed up by a wellness check preceding the search. Based on what I've read over the last few days, it sounds like that's standard procedure. My guess is that the cops knew beforehand that Rekieta wasn't ever going to let them into the house without a warrant and so didn't bother, but I'd be curious to hear any other explanation.

 

[Meat Target]

I thought Robert Barnes had a good reputation. Why would he want to throw it all away for a scumbag like Nick Rekeita?

He got kicked off the Rittenhouse defense team for trying to commandeer it. Then he went on with Nick during the trial and did nothing but talk shit about the defense.

 

[Maraschino]

No way one of the officers that served the warrant was named Sergeant J. Moon

Is this the coincidence we need to get Josh to do a Rekieta stream for the third time in a row?

 

[Boingboingboingboi]

i'm honestly surprised the probable cause was not more knock-down. i was really expecting something rock solid like photos of drugs in the house from aaron or one of the kids. the evidence offered is, instead, far more circumstantial, and seems to fall into 4 categories:

• concern from the church members regarding possible neglect of the children and injection marks on his arms.

neglect of the children has nothing to do with drugs, so i'm not sure why that's relevant. and the injection marks were, well, most likely not injection marks, but rather sores from scratching (as noted in the arrest document).

• rekieta's physical degradation over a period of time

this one is wild to me, not because i disagree, but i just wouldn't have thought it would be admissible as evidence. i mean, all of us here witnessed his degradation, theorized about why it is, and came to the conclusion that he was doing drugs based on the evidence that we all saw. a trained, seasoned detective saw the same stuff we did (probably the main thread too), and said, "hm. yep, yeah i'll stake my professional reputation on this and agree that he's most likely doing drugs and there are drugs in the house."

• his behavior on livestream, specifically the appealstream.

ditto for the second point. we all, reasonable people, clearly saw a man high out of his mind rambling incoherently for 4 hours, as well as the white powder on his nose, etc. i mean, it's crazy to think about, but once again, a seasoned, trained detective saw that too and said, "yep, sure looks like he's on drugs, and that sure is his house."

• public allusions and testimony by aaron on his show, which demonstrates that he did drugs, that nick is doing drugs, and that the two of them spent substantial amounts of time together over the previous months in which aaron experimented with drugs.

again, many took aaron's word for it. most of us recognized him as an unreliable narrator, cuck, etc., but i don't think anyone doubted his claims about or allusions to drug usage. again, crazy to think that the shit he said on stream about nick was used to support probable cause in a search warrant.

now, i'd like to note a few things:

1. the mandatory reporter claim about the children being in a state of neglect is the least important part of the search warrant. the other factors are consistent with child neglect, but they didn't search the house just because the mandatory reporter said people were concerned about behavioral/appearance changes.
2. the main rationale for the drug probable cause was his behavior on stream and aaron's claims on his own show. (i'm assuming the claim about him being a radio host previously is to bolster his credibility.) so i was kind of right before when i said that aaron had something to do with the warrant, just indirectly.
3. no single one of the four factors listed above would be sufficient for a search warrant. sean said this on KC the other night: building probable cause is like building a brick wall. no piece on its own is enough, but all together, they paint a picture that a judge would sign off on.

looking forward, i am now fully confident that nick will contest the warrant and fight to get the evidence suppressed. each of these is simply too weak and speculative on its own for him to resist fighting it. here's his possible lines of attack:

• he will say that judge fisher is biased against him and should not have signed the warrant because she has personal animus against him owing to their previous relationship, the fact that he is a defendant in another case she is the judge on, and the way he insulted her on stream. tbh, i think this is potentially a strong line of attack.
• he will say that minnesota scandanavian prudes don't know anything about drugs or his family and their mere speculation didn't meet the threshold of needing a mandatory report on the part of the pastor. they shouldn't be included in the search warrant for drugs.
• he will say that he was tired, stressed, or maybe even just acting, during that stream and that a reasonable person would have known that. he'll attack the detective's drug-induced-behavior spotting ability (uphill climb, but it's still what he'll probably do)
• he will say that aaron is an unreliable narrator and has animus against him because he was banging aaron's wife.

i think the only of these complaints that matter is the first one, that the judge is biased and shouldn't have signed the warrant. it's not knock-down, but it's the strongest claim he could make, i think, compared to the others. that said, though, i'm sure he thinks that each of the other "bricks" in the wall of probable cause are weak enough to be worth fighting against. he'll want to fight, and he'll shop for a lawyer who will fight it for him (or do it himself). it doesn't help him that he has so many ballwashing enablers on lawtube that he'll convince himself that he's in the right.

 

[Obnoxious Asshole]

No way one of the officers that served the warrant was named Sergeant J. Moon

Jersh just had to be there for this, so he snuck across the Canadian border in a maple syrup container. Once he is safely repatriated to his lair I will make a movie about his traveling escapades.

 

[Mikoyan]

Minnesota has requirements for firearm storage:

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This was discussed by... SEan I think, on a stream. It may not apply to this case since it takes effect in like August. (Literally "Oh well that's lucky for him.")

 

[break these cuffs]

i'm honestly surprised the probable cause was not more knock-down. i was really expecting something rock solid like photos of drugs in the house from aaron or one of the kids. the evidence offered is, instead, far more circumstantial, and seems to fall into 4 categories:

I was really hoping the police had directly spoken to someone who had seen the drugs and gotten statements, be that Aaron, the oldest son, whomever. These look to me like reasons for a CPS investigation, and not a search warrants for drugs to me, but I'm a stupid faggot.

 

[Sheryl Nome]

I was really hoping the police had directly spoken to someone who had seen the drugs and gotten statements, be that Aaron, the oldest son, whomever. These look to me like reasons for a CPS investigation, and not a search warrants for drugs to me, but I'm a stupid faggot.

Seeing someone do coke on a livestream is more than enough for a search warrant

 

[Laughing Putin]

i think the only of these complaints that matter is the first one, that the judge is biased and shouldn't have signed the warrant. it's not knock-down, but it's the strongest claim he could make, i think, compared to the others.

I thought about this for a second, but then I thought that the case could be made that any judge would have signed off on that warrant. The evidence presented seems pretty solid to me, definitely more than enough to claim "probable cause".

 

[break these cuffs]

Seeing someone do coke on a livestream is more than enough for a search warrant

Clip of Nick snorting coke on stream, please? It seems like an officer believes Nick snorted coke while off stream and will testify to that unless I missed something. He's going to say he ate a powdered donut and got really excited to get back to the stream or some dumb shit.

 

[ddlloo]

Seeing someone do coke on a livestream is more than enough for a search warrant

He didn't see the explicit act. However, he did a good job spruiking his credentials in determining why he thought Rackets was abusing drugs (in the house his kids were also in.)

How important that difference ends up being, IDK.

 

[TwinPeaksEnjoyer]

Lol Judge Fischer signed it.

BASED ALOG JUDGE !!!!