What really upsets them is the concept of Nick being so dumb that he would get caught. Not that he's evil or lazy, but that he would be dumb.
Church is full of idiots. Gubmint is full of idiots. Police is full of idiots.
But Nick is not, surely. He was outsmarted this one time by all those idiots, but THE WAR is not finished yet.
They are clinging on to this weird belief that Nick has an ace in his sleeve. That he's gonna go there to outsmart everyone. That judge will look like an idiot. And prosecutor. And pastor. And teacher. And Nick will be back to raising his glass up, smugly chuckling, and be like - 'well guys, I told you I was gonna win and I won, we are so back, we outsmarted them all.'
Nick was a fucking dweeb - he believed that if he will become a coomer and a cokehead, he will join the 'cool kids' club.
His locals people are clinically retarded - they believe that if they support Nick and he will "win" in court, they will join the 'smart kids' club.
None of them care that, regardless of what happened and why, there was 25 grams of coke in a house full of kids, and it's fucking wrong. Morality, reason, common sense - none it means anything. What matters is proving that Nick is a "winner", so that, through the powers of trickle-down economics, they will also feel like winners.
But it's all just a fucking delusion made up by a bunch of soulless, emotionally stunted retards.