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- May 29, 2021
From what I can gather, in order to cooperate with CPS, and to fulfill the required actions he has to provide CPS with information and access to the home.
However, anything told to CPS could also be used in his criminal case. Therefore, cooperating with the action plan could be tantamount to pleading guilty, or it could harm their defence.
None of that is likely to be true. The more likely situation is that Nick is dealing with the CPS process by utterly denying that there was ever neglect in the home or that he was a user of cocaine. That he is reacting to anything in the CPS process that attempts to get him to address his drug problem or the problems in the home as a confession of guilt.
The nature of the family court process is that to make progress getting the children back, you have to be able to admit to and deal with the problems that led to the children being taken away in the first place. If Nick insists that nobody had a drug problem, that nobody used drugs in the house and that CPS is committing perjury under oath in family court against him (implying that he refuses to accept that the children were ever neglected), then he isn't going to make any progress toward getting those kids back.
And as well, even if he beats all the criminal charges in the case, even then CPS isn't going to just forget everything that happened and assume he & wife are great parents. Because even if he beats a criminal charge, he is still a guy who had massive amounts of coke in his house and a very young child who was using large amounts of cocaine. And if Nick really believes that his dirty trap-house was a great place for his kids and that he was a great parent, in the name of protecting the kids he would under no circumstances get them back.
And while Nick may believe he can mount a successful jury trial defense around saying that the 26 grams of coke in his bedroom were not his and that he bears no responsibility for his eight year old daughter having used cocaine, the family court is not required to enable or share those sort of delusions.
The Nick who is claiming that CPS wants him to incriminate himself is the name Nick who rants and raves about how the state is conspiring against him, how CPS is lying under oath in his case and how he has secret information that only HE knows that will completely exonerate him in the case. That if only he could testify without danger of self-incrimination, he could prove that CPS has lied under oath about his family. That all the evidence against him can't be trusted because he knows a truth that we don't and only what he himself says can be trusted.
In summary, if he acts like a lunatic and uses the defense strategy of a crazy person in his case, the price of doing that is that will not get his kids back anytime soon and that is probably a very good thing.
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