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

[Null]

https://www.change.org/p/livestream-the-minnesota-v-rekieta-omnibus-hearing-in-kandiyohi-county

This petition is to demonstrate public interest in Rekieta's Omnibus hearing which will be in August. If you'd like to sign, it will be added to a motion sent to the court.

If you are an attorney who wants to sign an affidavit, please get in touch with me.

 

[Cynically Insane]

Why did the pastor go to the cops instead of to CPS? His report wasn't even first person. Is was a report of what other people in the church observed. There was no grounds for a warrant from the pastor's statement alone. I'm not simping, it's just curious. The pillstream is the basis for the warrant.

Pride goes before the fall and Nick's hubris is why this has gotten to this point. He could have appeased his church when they attempted to intervene and been more careful going forward. He could have looked at the pillstream and decided the prudent thing is to clean the house. If the cops came in and the house was clean and there was no coke, none of this would have happened. None of these even require he give up his addiction. And after, he could have gone directly from jail to rehab, bettering his chances of a no jail time, no felony plea deal. His decision making throughout, especially considering that he's a lawyer, has been abysmal. He has done nothing to protect his family from destruction. He must really believe that he hasn't done anything wrong.

On the other hand, as someone who attended Awana (a Wednesday night church club for children that encompasses athletic competition and the memorization of scripture), and owing to the report being filed on a Thursday, I can almost see what happened. The children were interrogated by the preschool teacher (not an actual certified teacher, but the person in the church who runs the preschool aged children's activities). The kids did not rat them out. They were manipulated into saying what the adult wanted them to say. This happens all of the time in diverse settings. Children are malleable, especially children raised in the evangelical church.

Nick is a retard addict who neglected his children's needs to some yet unknown degree in order to satisfy his own desires. I, however am not willing to take the state, or the reporters word as the truth. I wouldn't believe the cops were totally clean and honest in any other circumstance so why would I believe that here? I attended Awana for years. I know those people and have been interrogated by them myself. I know their manipulations first hand.

Nick is sleeping in the bed he made, but I am not going to cheer on the destruction of his family. Those kids deserve better. They deserve to live with their sober, loving parents and that is my hope for an outcome.

 

[Chirping Smoke Detector]

There was no grounds for a warrant from the pastor's statement alone. I'm not simping, it's just curious. The pillstream is the basis for the warrant.

As explained by the numerous people in lawtube: the pillstream is not the "basis" for the warrant. The warrant has multiple different things in it. The observations and reports of 4 separate people to the mandatory reporter (the pastor). Included in that is the children's claims of being hungry, the teacher observing that they were wearing the same clothes for days, the children smelling bad, Nick seemingly inebriated while driving. Nick leaving sermons (stark change in behavior).

Also part of the warrant is the officer observations of Nick's behavior on stream, his noticeable deterioration from 6 months ago to now on stream, weight loss of him and his wife, the coke on his nose. And I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple things.

All of this makes up the search warrant and buttresses each other thing. So while 1 thing alone would not be sufficient the multitude of observations and statements create a strong basis for the warrant. So even if you could knock 1 thing out, you still have everything else holding it together.

 

[holyhandgrenade]

I'm not simping, it's just curious.

*Clearly Simping*
Balldoguards show up even here uhmazin

 

[Bowling Ally]

I realise I’m not adding anything by saying this but 25g of coke is so much coke. That’s real degenerate shit for normal people who aren’t actually selling it inside a drug network.

Not defending Crackets or anyone else involved for one second, but I think that in addition to the fact that he's a degenerate low impulse control chalkhound it would also be fair to consider the principles of bulk buying when considering the size of the stash:

1. The more units you purchase, the cheaper your purchase per unit
2. Long transit - 4.5hr round trip to Minnesota to score

Way back when I smoked weed I lived in a rural location for a while. It was such a schlep to the city that I'd always pick up slightly more than I was comfortable possessing. If there's one thing drug addicts are good at it's planning to acquire and take drugs.

 

[Cynically Insane]

As explained by the numerous people in lawtube: the pillstream is not the "basis" for the warrant. The warrant has multiple different things in it. The observations and reports of 4 separate people to the mandatory reporter (the pastor). Included in that is the children's claims of being hungry, the teacher observing that they were wearing the same clothes for days, the children smelling bad, Nick seemingly inebriated while driving. Nick leaving sermons (stark change in behavior).

Also part of the warrant is the officer observations of Nick's behavior on stream, his noticeable deterioration from 6 months ago to now on stream, weight loss of him and his wife, the coke on his nose. And I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple things.

All of this makes up the search warrant and buttresses each other thing. So while 1 thing alone would not be sufficient the multitude of observations and statements create a strong basis for the warrant. So even if you could knock 1 thing out, you still have everything else holding it together.

So in other words, there was no grounds for a warrant based on the pastor's statement alone.

 

[Post Reply]

The children were interrogated by the preschool teacher (not an actual certified teacher, but the person in the church who runs the preschool aged children's activities). The kids did not rat them out. They were manipulated into saying what the adult wanted them to say. This happens all of the time in diverse settings. Children are malleable, especially children raised in the evangelical church.

If this were a case of a crazy fundie teacher coaching the kids because she hates Nick, we'd be hearing a lot crazier shit than "the kids show up wearing the same dirty clothing several days in a row" and "the kids complain about being hungry." Instead we'd be hearing about how the Rekeitas have a satanic rape dungeon where Nick makes sacrifices to Moloch.

The statements made in the search warrant all seem perfectly plausible, based on how Nick has deteriorated rapidly (and publicly) over the past few months.

 

[Cynically Insane]

*Clearly Simping*
Balldoguards show up even here uhmazin

The only people I am simping for is those poor fucking kids.

 

[moocow]

Why did the pastor go to the cops instead of to CPS? His report wasn't even first person. Is was a report of what other people in the church observed. There was no grounds for a warrant from the pastor's statement alone. I'm not simping, it's just curious. The pillstream is the basis for the warrant.

It's not the pastor's job to figure out which law enforcement agency to contact. Going to the police is fine; they can figure out who to call in, and they're free to involve CPS themselves (which they did). And yes, his report was adequate to trigger (at a minimum) a CPS investigation, which in concert with the police investigators would be enough to go looking for other evidence (including his social media and livestreams). What they found was more than enough for a warrant.

Go look at the stories of the world's most notorious serial killers of the 20th century. Most of the time, they get caught because someone reports one bit of strangeness (often not even related to murder). One guy (a now-former military officer) was implicated in and eventually convicted for a bunch of murders because he was hanging out in some random turnout of some state highway a couple miles away from the nearest houses and somebody called it in as "weird."

He wasn't even doing anything illegal and the cops just talked to him briefly, ID'd him, made sure there weren't any warrants (there weren't), and were about to cut him loose when one of the cops (who'd been at a murder scene a few days prior) happened to notice the guy's boot print and tire tracks matched those he'd seen at the murder scene.

That's certainly not enough to justify getting a warrant, but it put him on their radar, and they were able to gather other evidence to make it more clear he was their guy. When they finally did get enough for a warrant, they wound up finding a bunch of his (female) victims' underwear and other "keepsakes" in his house, and he confessed at his interrogation after his arrest.

Moral of the story: If you're gonna do dumb illegal shit, you gotta keep your nose clean (lol).

 

[Chirping Smoke Detector]

So in other words, there was no grounds for a warrant based on the pastor's statement alone.

Alone, no. But it wasn't alone. It was included with multiple other things.

 

[TheClappening]

So in other words, there was no grounds for a warrant based on the pastor's statement alone.

For something concerning child neglect, yes.

For the drug charges, no, but that's why the detective went through Aaron's and Nick's streams to strengthen his case for that part of the warrant.

 

[ddlloo]

So in other words, there was no grounds for a warrant based on the pastor's statement alone.

Probably would have just become a CPS investigation if rackets hadn't filmed himself absolutely deranged with coke on his nose, in the house his children live in, and if the next day the guy the police identified as swinging with him hadn't talked about the copious amounts of drug use.

Search warrants don't require a high degree of certainty. Different lawyers have said between 10-30% but that it's fuzzy. In this case the warrant is based on multiple different elements that intertwine and support each other. It tells a pretty compelling story.

 

[Third World Aristocrat]

So in other words, there was no grounds for a warrant based on the pastor's statement alone.

I'm not a legalfag, but my understanding from the explanations is that warrants really have a low bar of probable cause. If the allegations makes the criminal activity more probable than not, you have grounds for it.
So, the pastor statement alone MAY have enough grounds for a warrant. But it also makes an easier target for a defense attorney to contest it later.

 

[talk talk talk]

Just to make sure the documentation is in this thread, here is the MN Sentencing Guidelines grid for Balldo and Our Wife. As far as we know, they both have a criminal history score of zero. They are charged with second degree possession. The presumptive sentence is 48 months suspended.

None of this takes into account aggravating factors, such as the presence of children and firearms. It also does not take into account the potential of a mandatory commit from 609.11 or any other charges the prosecution may bring after the investigation is complete.

 

[Klaus Barbie]

I got the Search Warrant

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Will there be a post for the body cam?

I'm not a legalfag, but my understanding from the explanations is that warrants really have a low bar of probable cause. If the allegations make the criminal activity more probable than not, you have grounds for it.
So, the pastor statement alone MAY have enough grounds for a warrant. But it also makes an easier target for a defense attorney to contest it later.

Clergy are also mandatory reporters

 

[Green-Machine]

"Alright, Thanks, Flash."

Guess we know where the the DM's came from.
IF YOU'RE READING THIS, YOU'RE A FUCKING IDIOT, YELLOWFLASH.

that was posted in a group message so really it still could be anyone

 

[ShinyStar]

The only people I am simping for is those poor fucking kids.

Claims to be simping for the kids, but puts all their efforts into demeaning the only people who have acted in the children's interests... Yeah, do better, scumbag.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

The only people I am simping for is those poor fucking kids.

Then why did you complicate your thesis by introducing the "kids were manipulated" theory, other than airing your grievances of growing up in a church?

 

[RodgerDodger]

Right that's alot of money tied up in a ounce of coke, what were they doing with that much damn coke?

If we follow the logic that they were starting to experience a financial downturn, ie dropoff of Youtube simps and an ending of the Rumble contract. Then they just might have been doing a bit of dealing. We don't see any sign of that yet. But if the Cops start pulling Bank records and issue a warrant for electronic devices it might be a sign they twigged to such.

Personally I think Baldo was stuffing it all up his oversized nose.

 

[Kazukifaen]

Well, I chipped in and signed on the petition.

Hope this helps, wish I could donate more.