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

[Dixieland Buckaroo]

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.

Strip mall lawyers is just short hand (to me at least) for "not a huge firm". The Barnes theory is one of the only ones that makes sense, but that's still batshit crazy. My point was just proximity, you could hire an equivalent experienced and prestige lawyer much closer than Nick went.

Just look at the Vic case. The strip mall lawyer was the most competent lawyer there.

Very true, but also #NotAllStripMallLawyers - Vic's co-counsel (Martinez?) was in a similar set up, iirc.

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 local attorneys in his area probably didn't return his calls lol.

These two points merge together. It's still baffling, though. St. Cloud is an hour away and has a combined area population of 200,000- idk what the average lawyer per capita is, but let's say 1:1000. That's still 200 lawyers with half the commute time (or less, I don't imagine rush hour is that bad between St. Cloud and Wilmar). Heck, even the western suburbs of Minneapolis are only 90 minutes away.

I wouldn't be shocked if Nick's reputation was so bad on Kandiyoha county that he couldn't find someone to represent him, his way, locally. But a 2-3 hour one-way commute, for just some guy (he has about as much experience as our boi Sean), signals absolute weirdness to me.

*Gets popcorn ready*

The other weird thing is if/when Kayla's similar request appears, and the name attached to that filing.

 

[East_Clintwood]

What about "the kids were fine. Everyone gets hungry/smelly/dirty sometimes, that's just life".

If only occasionally do my kids stink of shit, you must acquit.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

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.

The trust probably paused until he cleans himself up.

 

[Strix454]

These two points merge together. It's still baffling, though. St. Cloud is an hour away and has a combined area population of 200,000- idk what the average lawyer per capita is, but let's say 1:1000. That's still 200 lawyers with half the commute time (or less, I don't imagine rush hour is that bad between St. Cloud and Wilmar). Heck, even the western suburbs of Minneapolis are only 90 minutes away.

He didn't just want an ordinary attorney. He went out of his way to select an overtly political twitter-troll attorney with a history of odd doomed clients and doing forlorn hope journeys into the appeals courts. Those are not as common a type of attorney in any given area as one would think.

He also has alot of family law experience which means Nick can pursue his potential strategy of blaming those damn kids for being hungry and dirty. He also needs an attorney who understands Nick's absolute need to constantly talk about his own case on social media.

Most normal attorneys Nick would have gone to would have told him to just negotiate the deal and move on. That there are no good grounds for going after the warrant. That the risks of not making a deal are far greater than making the deal. Bootlickers all!

The reason you hire a guy this is that you either don't have the money for a top experienced criminal defense attorney who does lots of drug cases.....or you want to pursue your own crazy strategy in court that a normal attorney will not do.

 

[Bogliacci]

or you want to pursue your own crazy strategy in court that a normal attorney will not do.

Remember Nick is one of the greatest legal minds of our time, his law theory is so cutting edge, not many lawyers will be willing to put up with the perceived risk (in reality there is no risk, the Law Pope has accounted for every possible detail of his stratagem)

 

[UncleTusky]

The reason you hire a guy this is that you either don't have the money for a top experienced criminal defense attorney who does lots of drug cases.....or you want to pursue your own crazy strategy in court that a normal attorney will not do.

And knowing Nick, he might be foolish enough to try monetizing this the way he did with Montagraph. He can't do that (at least, not effectively) if he cleans up his act and has his attorney negotiate a plea bargain for him.

 

[AngeloTheWizard]

Is there a chance, however slim, that Kayla has already taken some sort of deal which may or may not include blabbing on Nick? And it just hasn't been posted anywhere because the state wants to protect her? I admit I am a complete nothing when it comes to understanding law, my only experience is way too much CSI and the two Judgment games. That said, some of this discussion makes me wonder if this isn't a united front we're seeing.

 

[RodgerDodger]

I think it says more about Nick's financial situation than anything. Honestly I think his family has cut him off. Something has happened. You just have to follow the money, or lack thereof.

A $20k a month cocaine habit takes its toll on liquid assets. Plus his lucrative Baldo endorsement deal went to King Charles unexpectedly.

When Nick found success on thr internet his spending habits were not that of someone who grew up in a wealthy family. He went full Boogie2988/trailer park wins the Lotto lolcow. I somehow doubt any of his Rittenhouse or Depp earnings went into kids college trust funds? It all went into stupid nerd midlife crisis worthless shit and depravity.

That's why they are now hiring strip mall lawyers for the biggest crisis of their lives.

The silence around Kayla is striking. I mean she has to have her own lawyer, right? I can't see a situation where the Judge would even consider allowing them to waive conflict and share a lawyer? The conflicting interests are just too much. Especially with Nick's domineering personality. You don't let the Pimp represent or control his Ho's at trial.

 

[Kosher Salt]

I was wondering if this is a money-saving operation by Nick? Basically, since his & Kayla's cases are damn-near the same (in Nick's eyes) He is going to test-run filings only with him first, so he can see what will/won't work with Kayla.
They'll probably be defended by the same lawyer, but no need for extra expense to make duplicate filings until you know what you'll be getting first. Any possibility that's what he's doing? I would be shocked if they got different lawyers, unless they're splitting up. But current evidence doesn't point that direction.

Nick representing for the arraignment and the recusal was a money-saving (and time and effort saving) strategy. Finding a lawyer while you're in jail is easy: there's the phone book; finding the right lawyer in jail is the problem. Rather than picking someone at random from the phone book, most people want to get references from those close to them. That takes time and phone calls which you'd rather not be doing in jail if possible.

Nick's taken an aggressive strategy, but honestly Kayla's best bet might be the apologetic one - distance herself from Nick a little bit and try to settle this out for herself with probation and rehab since she's a first-time offender. I assume that they'll be represented by two different lawyers, as it would be a conflict of interest for one lawyer to take them both as clients in their respective cases. It is a conflict that they could waive, but it'd be best to just have separate lawyers. We'll just have to wait and see though.

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".

If I'm not mistaken, the child neglect charges are basically "drug use going on in the same house with the kids". If they can prove the drug use it's an open and shut case. All this talk about the kids being hungry/smelly/dirty was just an excuse to justify getting the cops to kick the door down and find the drugs.

Whether it's a founded excuse, or a manufactured one, I suppose we'll have to hope to see the bodycam footage and make up our own minds.

A $20k a month cocaine habit takes its toll on liquid assets.

Wasn't it more or less agreed that $20k was an around 10x inflated estimate of the value of the coke they found, based on one guy who agreed that he wasn't sure what he was smoking when he said it?

 

[Himedall All-seeing Waifu]

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.

The silence around Kayla is striking. I mean she has to have her own lawyer, right? I can't see a situation where the Judge would even consider allowing them to waive conflict and share a lawyer? The conflicting interests are just too much. Especially with Nick's domineering personality. You don't let the Pimp represent or control his Ho's at trial.

Remember the filing delay on the bond posting documentation where Nick proved correct. I am cautious of repeating such an arc within this thread. Wait until Tuesday at lest to make speculation on this.

Kayla herself has been near invisible since her ignominious retreat from LOCALS--with only brief glimpses in photos shared by Balldo. This was the reason so many were mortified by her booking photo appearance. There is precious little to go in when determining her feelings, and possible actions and motives.

As entertaining as the Kayla-sperging may be to some, it is mostly fan-fiction at present.

 

[Gehenna]

A $20k a month cocaine habit takes its toll on liquid assets. Plus his lucrative Baldo endorsement deal went to King Charles unexpectedly.

When Nick found success on thr internet his spending habits were not that of someone who grew up in a wealthy family. He went full Boogie2988/trailer park wins the Lotto lolcow. I somehow doubt any of his Rittenhouse or Depp earnings went into kids college trust funds? It all went into stupid nerd midlife crisis worthless shit and depravity.

That's why they are now hiring strip mall lawyers for the biggest crisis of their lives.

The silence around Kayla is striking. I mean she has to have her own lawyer, right? I can't see a situation where the Judge would even consider allowing them to waive conflict and share a lawyer? The conflicting interests are just too much. Especially with Nick's domineering personality. You don't let the Pimp represent or control his Ho's at trial.

Honestly right now I am just assuming if she has gotten her own counsel said counsel is talking to Nick's lawyer and getting anything he gets. So right now there is just no need to ask for the materials themselves since they will get it anyway.

 

[RodgerDodger]

He didn't just want an ordinary attorney. He went out of his way to select an overtly political twitter-troll attorney with a history of odd doomed clients and doing forlorn hope journeys into the appeals courts. Those are not as common a type of attorney in any given area as one would think.

For this sort of case what you want is a good LOCAL lawyer. One who has experience with the DA's office and Local Judges. Someone who has professional capital to spend in the county where you are facing charges. A local strip mall lawyer is a great choice. He knows the Judges, knows the clerks, knows the prosecutors, and has the best hope of negotiating things down to something less than apocalyptic.

The last thing you want is a Strip Mall lawyer from the other side of the state, with a rabble rousing Twatter history who is going to come in and start screeching bizare constitutional arguments in front of a Judge he's never met before.

"Don't worry we'll win it on appeal" is not a good opening strategy in a local felony drug case.

Wasn't it more or less agreed that $20k was an around 10x inflated estimate of the value of the coke they found, based on one guy who agreed that he wasn't sure what he was smoking when he said it?

I know. I was using Coomalots claim to illustrate a point that Nick's been spending prolifically on drugs not savings.

I assume that they'll be represented by two different lawyers, as it would be a conflict of interest for one lawyer to take them both as clients in their respective cases. It is a conflict that they could waive,

The Judge still has to agree to any such waiver. I can't see it happening here because of just how great the conflict is and how obvious the power dynamic is between Nick and Kayla. The easiest, safest and least reversible option is for the Judge to tell them to each get a lawyer. It's not like some civil lawsuit. There are felonies on the table for each.

 

[feral cat #6385]

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.

Would be nice if that was the case. I don't have faith in his parents applying that sort of tough love to the loser, degenerate and figure they will give him all the money in the trust fund for lawyers.

Rekieta needs a new GoFundMe to help pay his lawyers bills. Be interesting to see how much he could raise the second time around.

About tree fiddy.

I wouldn't be shocked if Nick's reputation was so bad on Kandiyoha county that he couldn't find someone to represent him, his way, locally. But a 2-3 hour one-way commute, for just some guy (he has about as much experience as our boi Sean), signals absolute weirdness to me.

What you are saying is Nick's reputation is so bad that if someone were to make defamatory claims against him, it's possible his reputation is so bad that it's not possible to ruin his already bad reputation. Sounds familiar. I believe there's a legal term for that.

The other weird thing is if/when Kayla's similar request appears, and the name attached to that filing.

I would just assume it's a filing delay like with the bond.

Is there a chance, however slim, that Kayla has already taken some sort of deal which may or may not include blabbing on Nick? And it just hasn't been posted anywhere because the state wants to protect her? I admit I am a complete nothing when it comes to understanding law, my only experience is way too much CSI and the two Judgment games. That said, some of this discussion makes me wonder if this isn't a united front we're seeing.

Cunt guarders get the rope first. Kayla doesn't have a functioning brain. Kayla has no initiative whatsoever and is basically a zombie completely defendant on Nick.

The silence around Kayla is striking. I mean she has to have her own lawyer, right? I can't see a situation where the Judge would even consider allowing them to waive conflict and share a lawyer? The conflicting interests are just too much. Especially with Nick's domineering personality. You don't let the Pimp represent or control his Ho's at trial.

She is too busy watching Star Trek reruns and getting blasted on her 9,000 prescription meds. She will go with whatever lawyer/strategy Nick tells her to go with.

 

[Himedall All-seeing Waifu]

For this sort of case what you want is a good LOCAL lawyer. One who has experience with the DA's office and Local Judges. Someone who has professional capital to spend in the county where you are facing charges. A local strip mall lawyer is a great choice. He knows the Judges, knows the clerks, knows the prosecutors, and has the best hope of negotiating things down to something less than apocalyptic.

The last thing you want is a Strip Mall lawyer from the other side of the state, with a rabble rousing Twatter history who is going to come in and start screeching bizare constitutional arguments in front of a Judge he's never met before.

"Don't worry we'll win it on appeal" is not a good opening strategy in a local felony drug case.

Well, it depends on what your goal is.

Nick, if he is driving this case, is focusing on his public PR, sperging in DMs, and whatever other nonsense I am sure he is doing. It all depends on how mercenary this lawyer is. If we base this on his hiring history of Randazza to run a long-shot legal theory defence, I would rate it more highly than not.

 

[WelperHelper99]

A $20k a month cocaine habit takes its toll on liquid assets. Plus his lucrative Baldo endorsement deal went to King Charles unexpectedly.

When Nick found success on thr internet his spending habits were not that of someone who grew up in a wealthy family. He went full Boogie2988/trailer park wins the Lotto lolcow. I somehow doubt any of his Rittenhouse or Depp earnings went into kids college trust funds? It all went into stupid nerd midlife crisis worthless shit and depravity.

That's why they are now hiring strip mall lawyers for the biggest crisis of their lives.

The silence around Kayla is striking. I mean she has to have her own lawyer, right? I can't see a situation where the Judge would even consider allowing them to waive conflict and share a lawyer? The conflicting interests are just too much. Especially with Nick's domineering personality. You don't let the Pimp represent or control his Ho's at trial.

Honestly it's appaling how much money he has burned, and now he has to go for strip mall lawyers for the fight of his life. If he had invested a fraction of that cash, he'd be set for life.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Plus his lucrative Baldo endorsement deal went to King Charles unexpectedly.

Are you sure it wasn't Prince Albert?

 

[Dixieland Buckaroo]

As entertaining as the Kayla-sperging may be to some, it is mostly fan-fiction at present.

We have a bit more than this. There is her pinterest, and the youtube playlist. There is also Aaron's stories about Kayla. Now, they might be mostly/all bullshit! But some of Aaron's stories do line up with the view of a concerned housewife trying to fix her marriage, until it leads her down the path of damnation.

Like I said above, I'll be interested to see who is representing Kayla, and if they take a different early strategy to what Nick is doing. If it becomes clear she's just being puppetted, well... feel doubly bad for those kids.

 

[Himedall All-seeing Waifu]

We have a bit more than this. There is her pinterest, and the youtube playlist. There is also Aaron's stories about Kayla. Now, they might be mostly/all bullshit! But some of Aaron's stories do line up with the view of a concerned housewife trying to fix her marriage, until it leads her down the path of damnation.

Like I said above, I'll be interested to see who is representing Kayla, and if they take a different early strategy to what Nick is doing. If it becomes clear she's just being puppetted, well... feel doubly bad for those kids.

The social media sources seem a bit stale to me and the stories from Aaron are second-hand... It is not enough for me, but I am a sceptical person by nature. I certainly NEVER expected Nick to end up with a thread like this, so Kayla mat very well be the same.

The speculation is part of the fun, but the truth is often stranger than fiction, and I find much more hilarity in the shocking curtain reveals that inevitably happen with each cow. I watch this and a few other threads with increasing interest.

 

[AnOminous]

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

It's not even the kind of thing generally thought of when you say "strip mall," but one of those upscale outlet type malls that often have separate buildings and well landscaped property.

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?

Any criminal defense door lawyer would be glad to have a fuckup client who constantly generates billable hours, especially when his reputation is so in the toilet that whatever happens to him doesn't even reflect on you.

 

[Watching Rekieta]

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.

The state is treating them the same at least for the omnibus. Same bat time, same bat channel. She may choose to not have separate counsel. The state is presenting the same case against both. The neglect charges are slightly different since they charged Nick with doing drugs while Kayla is only present.

Rekieta needs a new GoFundMe to help pay his lawyers bills. Be interesting to see how much he could raise the second time around.

I want to see this. For Nick, he's going to believe that decisions about how he raises his kids is adjacent to the free speech opinion arguments he made for his defamation. He definitely sees this as the state stepping on his rights.

Gofundme statement:
"Every American has the Natural Right to raise children as we see fit. We have the right to do crack cocaine while our dirty and smelly kids go hungry. Help me fight the jack-booted thugs and bootlickers trying to control what goes on in our well-armed polycule religious trap house of worship. Clearly, the Scandinavian prudes are infringing our 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 14th amendment rights! I will never surrender your rights or give up this important fight over the future of our children. Please give what you can here or in superchat."