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

Will Nicholas Rekieta take the plea deal offered to him?


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I don't hate his list of specialties, and the guy is a strip mall lawyer so he sort of has to advertise "I'll do your basic contracts." Looking into his case history, he seems to mostly do criminal and military law. He also has done some appellate cases, and Nick is going to need that experience if he's going to run the Barnes game plan.
And as I have pointed out, you are never, or almost never, going to win on an exclusionary rule defense (imo the only thing he even conceivably wins), at the trial court level. It's always going to the appeals court.

There is no "it's totally groovy for me to have drugs and guns and smelly, starving, stinking kids in filthy rags" defense here. He needs the actual physical evidence gone.
 
The strip mall thing doesn't bother me as much as the fact that he seems to be a generalist. Little bit of contract, little bit of family, little bit of criminal, little bit of suing the military, etc. etc.
I don't see why you have a problem with it. He could be to criminal law as Ty Beard is to defamation cases. A definite win. For us.
It's also mystifying that Nick would spend stupid money to hire a really expensive lawyer to fight the defamation lawsuit that he could have made disappear with a quick apology and a few dollars, but when it comes to his liberty, he hires the cheapo strip mall guy. It all seems arse about face to me.
Maybe a "better" lawyer wouldn't take his case because they didn't agree with Nick's legal strategy in dealing with the case.
 
Very interesting that the guy Nick hired isn't representing both of them jointly.

One lawyer representing criminal codefendants is frowned upon because even if everyone waives conflicts and appears to have non-antagonistic defenses, you never know what will happen at trial.

That being said, it is permissible, and it has advantages in some circumstances. If you're a mob boss, you don't want your lowly codefendant having a truly independent lawyer who might convince him to rat you out. It's also cheaper, obviously. A cheap, egomaniacal control-freak. Sound like anyone?

No doubt Nick is, or would be, telling Kayla "if you feel guilty, repent to Jesus, but we have to aggressively fight these criminal charges because this was unconstitutional." I think it's a safe bet that Nick isn't taking any deal before challenging the warrant at the omnibus hearing in August, and then who knows. But an independent lawyer would likely advise Kayla to go to rehab immediately and let him negotiate a deferred adjudication where she does probation and the case gets dismissed afterwards.

If Nick and Kayla are together and on the same page, why would they spend double the money to hire separate lawyers?

Nick hiring a lawyer of his own points to Kayla being out of the picture, either in rehab or with family, imo.
 
It only becomes evidence when either Nick or the prosecutor files it as evidence, which they may or may not do (well, the prosecutor almost certainly would, but Nick might find parts that he wants to introduce as defense exhibits if he thinks they support his defense - e.g. footage of the AR, if this supports his claim that it had a trigger lock),
“We are requesting the body cam footage of Officer Jimmy Goodshoes.”

“What? Why? He wasn’t even on scene that day.”

“Exactly! His body cam is going to be way better for us than those dumb cops that found all my drugs!”

Checkmate, Karen Farms. The Lawpope wins again!
 
Let's be real though. Nick hired this guy because he's been washing the balldo and Barnes told him that he's an ally.
Basically this guy is hired to contest the probable cause statements at the omnibus hearing (the only purpose of omnibus hearing). Apparently Barnes was happy with the way the guy lost the other constitutional challenges he made in appellate court. Nick's goal is to be the victim of the system.

He won't win. Nick will take a plea deal. Probably deferred adjudication. Then he'll complain the state was going to keep him wrapped up in legal harassment while his children grew up. He'll say he plead guilty so his children could have a father during their childhood.
 
He won't win. Nick will take a plea deal. Probably deferred adjudication. Then he'll complain the state was going to keep him wrapped up in legal harassment while his children grew up. He'll say he plead guilty so his children could have a father during their childhood.
Spoken like a true bootlicker. Nick needs to fight this to the bitter end and prove these incel prudes WRONG! It's typical of a bootlicker like you to question his strategy, as the LAW POPE, where he wins EVERY TIME, you PUSSY. How dare you question him?
 
The real baffling thing to me is, why pay for strip mall lawyer who's over 2 hours (one way) from the courthouse in Wilmar? You're telling me there's no one better, this side of even Minneapolis, much less St Paul? That 4 hours of travel billing for the in-person hearings is gonna add up pretty quick, especially if he's going to go retard lolbert with the case.
 
The real baffling thing to me is, why pay for strip mall lawyer who's over 2 hours (one way) from the courthouse in Wilmar?
Again, the working theory is that this was a personal recommendation from Barnes, because Barnes and this guy have worked together in the past. There is a legitimate possibility that Barnes comes on Pro Hac Vice.

Also, I think people are focusing way too much on "muh strip mall lawyer." Where this guy's office is is completely irrelevant.
 
I haven't been following the Noseguards on Twitter. I have read the warrant application.

What do they say are the problems with the warrant?

To put it succintly: Everything.

Also, I think people are focusing way too much on "muh strip mall lawyer." Where this guy's office is is completely irrelevant.

Just look at the Vic case. The strip mall lawyer was the most competent lawyer there.
 
I think it's a safe bet that Nick isn't taking any deal before challenging the warrant at the omnibus hearing in August, and then who knows.
Sounds very expensive. Especially when he is already paying two other sets of lawyers. One set for his defamation case, one for his criminal case, one for his CPS case. I don't think Rackets has enough money to fight all 3 and be able to afford the Cocaine necessary to raise his stress tolerance to deal with fighting 3 battles at once. Would it not be a more logical strategy to dispose of the defamation case and the criminal case as quickly and efficiently as possible to deal with the much harder CPS case?
Nick hiring a lawyer of his own points to Kayla being out of the picture, either in rehab or with family, imo.
This comment deserves ALL THE RAINBOWS IN THE WORLD. What's left of Kayla isn't sentient. She has no agency. She will do whatever Nick tells her.
It’s pretty clear that Barnes & Bailey is convincing nick to go to this circuit circus. I’m pretty sure a “I got you bro” has come and this lawyer is just a helpful stopgap.
I doubt Nick needed any convincing. He is incapable of admitting wrongdoing as demonstrated by his defamation case and about 1,000 other examples where he blew off legitimate criticism.
He won't win. Nick will take a plea deal. Probably deferred adjudication. Then he'll complain the state was going to keep him wrapped up in legal harassment while his children grew up. He'll say he plead guilty so his children could have a father during their childhood.
You underestimate how stubborn our boy Nick is. Look at his defamation case.
The real baffling thing to me is, why pay for strip mall lawyer who's over 2 hours (one way) from the courthouse in Wilmar? You're telling me there's no one better, this side of even Minneapolis, much less St Paul? That 4 hours of travel billing for the in-person hearings is gonna add up pretty quick, especially if he's going to go retard lolbert with the case.
This is Nick Rekieta we are talking about. He has proven to be one of the most hate able scumbags in the legal profession who badmouths his colleagues on the air all the time and sabotaged his defamation case by talking about them on air extensively. I find that very plausible. Would you want to deal with a bad client that will instruct you to pursue a bad strategy that will badmouth and defame you on air when you fail trying to implement his bad strategy? And no doubt send countless shower texts?
 
The real baffling thing to me is, why pay for strip mall lawyer who's over 2 hours (one way) from the courthouse in Wilmar? You're telling me there's no one better, this side of even Minneapolis, much less St Paul? That 4 hours of travel billing for the in-person hearings is gonna add up pretty quick, especially if he's going to go retard lolbert with the case.
The local attorneys in his area probably didn't return his calls lol.
 
It's also mystifying that Nick would spend stupid money to hire a really expensive lawyer to fight the defamation lawsuit that he could have made disappear with a quick apology and a few dollars, but when it comes to his liberty, he hires the cheapo strip mall guy. It all seems arse about face to me.
To me, it suggests that Rekieta's money is running out assuming that he is thinking rationally. Big assumption I know considering that all of that drug and alcohol consumption must have damaged his brain and his ability to make rational decisions.
 
There is no "it's totally groovy for me to have drugs and guns and smelly, starving, stinking kids in filthy rags" defense here. He needs the actual physical evidence gone.
So "you can't prove that's my cocaine" is never going to work? What about "the kids were fine. Everyone gets hungry/smelly/dirty sometimes, that's just life".
 
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