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

[SpellforceFan]

nick has enough money to pay a full time nanny but chose to blow it all on drugs instead SMH. A child’s condition will always be an indicator of a poor home life and neglect.

Nanny could have reported him even faster, unless he got some illegal beaner and threatened to call ICE on her if she as much as thought about snitching.

 

[Historical Strelkov]

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.

The guns were in the safe except the AR-15 which was under the bed, which I remember Aaron bitching about.
You know unlike every cop in the world who has a pistol under the pillow?
The gun charges are entirely bullshit in my opinion, and they're tacked on because they want to take them away. I'm sure Minnesota has the cucky laws that require you to have your guns chained up in a 12-pin lock that requires a co-op partner to press the same button at the same time.
Though to be 100 percent fair, junkies should not have guns, so my gun defense instinct is quelled by the bigger picture*

 

[FattyBomba]

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

Maybe in your imagination but not in reality. Could've been baby powder or sugar.

 

[(The REAL) Jack Torrance]

So those "sores" were from shooting up. Wonder what it was. Ket or H?

The track marks remark is very interesting. I fell like if the brown shit was heroin they defiantly would have had a field test for that

Rate me late if it’s already been stated, I’m several pages behind. Severe cocaine addicts can and do inject it. AFAIK the effects are more powerful when injected.

 

[Old English Roast Beef]

Could the more legally experienced people in this thread clue us in to how common it is for a valid search warrant for a domicile to be granted based on an individual behaving erratically and obviously chemically altered?

Because in my lay opinion, the appeal stream alone would be enough evidence that Nick was using controlled substances.

Barnes is out here acting like the warrant was insufficient and based on hearsay, but in my mind the way Nick himself acted makes the whole thing pretty airtight.

It's not unusual. This is why the application spends so much time on the officer's "training and experience"--although hearsay can be used to support a warrant, by itself the parishioner's reports of child neglect or weird behavior wouldn't be sufficient to search for drugs because they didn't see him do it. But when someone knowledgeable observes Rekieta on video at a particular time and place behaving strangely, having sores, with white powder, he can make the inference that this indicates drug use. This is true even if the officer received bad training and used the wrong methods by the way. It's a lot easier to get a search warrant than a conviction.

 

[Jason "Qriist" Close]

I got the Search Warrant

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Prosecute.

 

[yydszmiteg2]

Rate me late if it’s already been stated, I’m several pages behind. Severe cocaine addicts can and do inject it. AFAIK the effects are more powerful when injected.

Yeah I had speculated the same a while back. I'm told it also makes your ears ring if you inject it? Just seems a bit old fashion and funny since that's what Victorians did. Still probably right, either ket or coke someone even said they may have done speedballs at one point.

Prosecute.

 

[AnOminous]

Why Nicky boy is afraid to stream. It occurred to him that they will actually use streams as evidence against him.

What's amazing is this somehow came as a huge shock to him. I've been saying this for over a fucking year and collected some puzzle pieces for it. No shit stuff that you say in public is admissable evidence against you. I also said people in his congregation would not approve of his behavior, and people acted like I was crazy.

Remember how greasy and gross Nick would come on his stream looking? Like he hadn't showered in a week? Imagine how rough those kids looked, disgusting. Fuck anyone who gave him the benefit of the doubt, and it also sounds like they talked to Aaron before the raid.

I don't blame them for giving the benefit of the doubt when there was a doubt, but now that it has been entirely obliterated, they are complete pieces of shit if they continue defending this abject villain's repulsive, subhuman conduct.

Kids hungry in AMERICA.

Don't forget. Kids of a fucking MILLIONAIRE. A trust fund asshole.

There are poor people working two jobs who go without meals to make sure their kids get fed. This motherfucker claimed to be spending $3,000 a month on "snacks" and meanwhile his kids are starving and stinking, going to school in such a deplorable state that FOUR PEOPLE went to the pastor to get the cops involved.

 

[BradolfPittler]

I don't think anything Barnes says regarding this is to be taken seriously, he's just in autistic defense lawyer mode where he's spinning everything mentally to be as favorable to his non-cilent client as possible. Thats the kind of retarded mindset you want from a lawyer on your side, but it's totally nonsense in the court of public opinion.

Precisely this. Barnes isn't an idiot, he's running defense in the way he best knows how.

I think Nick is cooked at this point. His public image is destroyed. His private life is completely public now. The only reason to not go all out on stream is the potential of influencing litigation.

 

[talk talk talk]

I mean he is a lawyer and a lawyer is supposed to do zealous representation. Maybe it's a mix of defending a friend and thought experiments and workshoping arguments? He probably isnt absolutely saturated with balldo lore like we are so he might just be unaware. I will say the little bit that I've seen of Viva and Barnes talking about this it seems like there are some interesting legal questions that could be asked about this whole, sorrid affair but, I mean fuck me running man, I don't know if this is the legal hill to do battle and die on.

I would have no problem if Balldo's lawyer who was retained and had filed a certificate of representation made all these arguments in court. I'd even expect and applaud it.

But doing it for free on Twitter? That's just being a simp.

 

[melanated individual]

This makes sense I don't know about Minnesota but in my state teachers are mandated reporters so if the kids said something to her our she noticed something was up with nick and Kayla she has to report it to the proper authorities

 

[Barry McKockner]

What's amazing is this somehow came as a huge shock to him. I've been saying this for over a fucking year and collected some puzzle pieces for it. No shit stuff that you say in public is admissable evidence against you. I also said people in his congregation would not approve of his behavior, and people acted like I was crazy.

That was one of his points during the Vic saga was that the shit you post online can and will be used against you.

 

[yydszmiteg2]

I would have no problem if Balldo's lawyer who was retained and had filed a certificate of representation made all these arguments in court. I'd even expect and applaud it.

But doing it for free on Twitter? That's just being a simp.

Hell even if he just once says "Nick is a piece of shit and deserves to be fed feet first into a wood chipper, now lets look and see if he can actually win a case like this. Just as an academic exercise"

 

[joebobmurphy]

I got the Search Warrant

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I do so enjoy both the fact that the officer watched the stream and the very formal way he described Nick doing coke.

 

[clownpiss]

the uncivil law audience is something else

 

[Sheryl Nome]

Maybe in your imagination but not in reality. Could've been baby powder or sugar.

Everyone involved knows it was cocaine. His demeanor reflects that it is cocaine. Let's all just stop pretending.

That stream alone is PC for a search warrant. It obviously is.

 

[Space Pope]

Remember it's also small town Minnesota, and the difference between a CPS visit and a warrant might just be who can get out there sooner. If the CPS case agent is based out of somewhere like St Cloud and couldn't show up for a week or two, the cops (and judge) may have decided to move forward sooner rather than later.

The cases are triaged and even podunk rural counties have 24/7 staffing to respond to complaints coming through the common entry point. (Often times a multi-county cooperative or State employees covering for the small counties outside of normal business hours but they will and do respond in person at all hours.) In the certifications I've been party to, the usual standard is no more than 8 hours from the report being received to making contact when it's non criminal and the County is the agency of responsibility and it's marked as high priority.

If someone wants to do a deeper dive on this, a good place to start is the law.

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/260E

There's far more that goes into it that are set by administrative rules and regulations that aren't outlined in the statute.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

They basically knew that they couldn't get anything strong enough without somehow arresting Rekieta. They likely knew he was a problem for a little while, but didn't have the ability to do anything about it. Then he makes this stream and then he is vulnerable so they grab their opportunity. Child Abuse/neglect while extremely awful can be hard to prove and so the best way to deal with something like that is to get Rekieta on something all and append Child abuse/neglect to that other thing.

Everyone needs to remember that Nick has been known as the town drunk for probably longer than we've known him. The amount of alcohol that has been documented just in his thread before shit went south is phenomenal.

It's a fucking small town! I buy a bottle of gin once or twice a year and the clerk recognizes me and what I buy.

But alcohol is privileged, it's damn hard to make a strong case on just a drunk parent. I'm sure the church has been trying to step in for years now, as the situation has been getting worse. For the cops, the coke is a God send because it suddenly makes it all clean and clear - if they had busted down the door, and only found a filthy house and infinite gallons of cheap whiskey, they'd have a hard case for even CPS to fully step in.

 

[Dastardly Dick]

I'm not a gun guy, just looking at the inventory list, could any of these be responsible for the spent casing, or is it essentially confirmed that the spent casing was just picked up from somewhere?

From what I can make out of the inventory, there is a .45, a .380, and a shotgun, but again, I'm not a gun guy so I'm a bit clueless on this.

Also, what the fuck is this handwriting? It's worse than mine and I'm a disaster.

It's possible the spent casing was from a range trip. Possible but with Nick there is no telling where the spent brass came from. There are times I'll have brass in my range bag or something after a trip.

I'm curious if the brass casing had the primer struck or not. That would tell us if it were fired or they just removed the bullet and tried to snort the gun powder with the coke.

 

[Mourning_Cloak]

Holy fucking shit, exactly what I expected.

Track marks? Motherfucker was escalating so damn fast, what the hell. Doing everything under the sun. No way that unknown brown stuff wasn't heroin. I am seriously unable to fathom what kind of brain this dude must have.

Looking forward to sneedscrolling to catch up when I get to leave the wagie cagie later. Can't wait to see how the usual suspects try to cope from this. I hope the kids are safe with relatives and are being bombarded with meals and treats cooked by little old church ladies.

Positively appalling and grotesque.