The report suggested he lost his shit at several points. Including throwing the warrant on the ground.
Imagine the toddler gifs & memes!
This is retarded. The hair testing will have no bearing on his possession charges. My guess is that they just used those to get a baseline to inform the Child Protection issues. In terms of possession, they caught him red handed with the dope scattered all over his bedroom. It'd look worse if he tested negative -- he'd just look like a dealer then. But I also imagine the government has the various clips of him boasting about his drug use on live streams.
I always had my suspicions about Rekieta never being a practicing lawyer. This kind of retardation just restates his complete lack of competence.
He's an attorney in good standing in MN. He's appeared in a handful of cases the attorney of record. So yeah, he was a practicing lawyer for a minute. Not a good one, and not one who could become good, because he thought he was above learning ftom an actual career lawyer, and because thinks the whole system needs to bend the knee and perform how Nick wants it to perform.
He appears as an attorney in 32 cases, including the April Imholte traffic ticket (lol, another win for the
Toe Balldo!)
Before that, 1 case in 2021 (civil conciliation; mail to rekieta returned lol), 1 traffic thing in 2020, 1 in 2019, 9 in 2018, 10 in 2017, 7 in 2016, 2 in 2015.
Fun reading.
Looking back to his "active years" of 2015* - 2018: in the 2018 the case against Smith, Nick challenged probable cause and made a 1A argument. He did win that one, but his argument/writing style was...near-Greer-tier.
* htf did he represent soneone in July 2015, when he graduated in 2015? Bar exams are, for most recent grads, in July, results later (oof, Wm Mitchell had a 72% pass rate that July, 69.88% for feb/July combined; common for Feb % to be lower bc it's a lot of second+-timers), then you have to go through a process for admission. Afaict MN has been toying with the concept of allowing 3L students to sit for the exam, but they seemed to be discussing it as late as 2021, so that's confusing. For that matter why was he in law school 2011-2015? That's an extra calendar year in those dates. Was he going PT? Or do they do an offcycle so he graduated January 2015, took the bar in Feb? Unusual but idk what Wm Mitchell had in place.
Back to the cursory cruise:
In Violet someone v Danvers Bank in 2018 Nick writes at least two letters begging the Court to forgive his own fuckups. Noice.
In the 2018 Duruji case, found another apology letter from Nick to the Court for fucking up service and having to beg for a continuance or rescheduling. Lost that one, taking a $16k debt up to $21k by the time of judgment (and last filing in 2023 was a request for additional amounts bc still not paid).
In a 2018 child custody case, there's a document indicating Rekieta failed to pay a required fee. Lol.
2017 drug/gun case (Nazarenus). Nick moved to dismiss for lack of probable cause, testing, etc. Topical! Now, it was 5th degree possession + handguns and about THC oil, for pete's sake, so kind of a big to do about not much. However, I was amused by the motion grounds. Recommend; they'll sound familiar to noises he's making now. But the finisher:
The State’s decision to bring charges on such scant evidence is troubling in a justice system
purporting innocence until proof of guilt. Defendant has been subject to onerous release conditions, confiscation of his lawfully owned firearms, public accusation of illegal drug use, court appearances, attorney fees, and expensive chemical testing requirements based entirely on the ownership of a legal substance.
As established above, the entire complaint against Defendant should be dismissed and his firearms should be immediately returned.
PRAYER FOR RELIEF
Defendant, due to the grounds asserted above, asks the court for the following:
1. Suppress all evidence seized as the product of an improperly issued Warrant.
2. Suppress all statements made by Defendant or Autumn Young as fruit of the poisonous
tree.
3. Suppress the field test results for improper testing according to the Supplemental Report
of Officer Helgeson.
4. Dismiss all charges as they are unsupported by probable cause or evidence untainted by
the unlawful searches
5. Order State to identify the informant.
6. Return seized firearms to Defendant immediately.
7. Immediately end any and all release conditions for Defendant.
2 months later he filed another motion to dismiss. Didn't compare by line though the language seems toned down [thank GOD]. How'd it go?
Well, after the omnibus hearing the parties had to file supplemental briefs. Nick's was timely (!); the State missed the filing date by a date. Nick requested their brief be disregarded. The Court admonished the State and said I'll allow it but defense gets some extra time to reply. In Nick's reply, he starts, "This Memorandum is in response to the State's delinquent filing dated May 31, 2018." Stay petty, Nick!
Conclusion of his brief displays more Greer-style prose: "The State's case is shockingly deficient. The State baldly* asserts...."
* second time in a brief glance of his filings I've seen that term used. It's a fine word, but apoarently he only owns an abridged thesaurus.
From the Conclusion:
The State's case is a fishing expedition [sic**] and Defendants are forced to endure onerous release conditions and the embarrassing stigma*** of having a felony charge hang over their heads. They are forced to endure this at the repeated incompetence of the drug task force in administering improper field tests and the State attempting to retroactively create probable cause that it has lacked from the onset. The search should have never been ordered, the case should have been dismissed at the first appearance, and the case should be dismissed now.
Defendants in this case have been treated as guilty while the state scrambles to justify a
charge of serious criminal offenses over a legal substance. Please return the presumption of
innocence to the defendants in light of the abysmal showing by the State.
Jesus Fucking Christ. I get it; this is not a Supreme Court brief; it's regular work. But this prose is raaaather purple. But, like, the ugly 80s mauve, because it's self-important but also a grab-bag of weak clichés (
see what I did there?)
**I'm petty, too. You missed a comma there, Nick. Two independent clauses.
***As opposed the other, unembarrassing type of stigma, I guess?
Mocking Nick's
prowess prose aside, he did win that one.
Then again, no drugs were found, just paraphernalia. And things were already in motion in MN to decriminalize possession of paraphernalia. But a win's a win.
Also noting that the D was not present at the time of the bust, a fact noted by the Court in its Order. The Court also noted that (note: no drugs or even residue), there was nothing to show that D had been a "drug user" while in possession of a gun.
It's the thinnest reed, Nick, and these things are heavily fact-specific. May the odds ever be in your favor to make a million dollars.
If Nick was a serious lawyer he wouldn't have been on YouTube in the first place. Real professionals don't usually have time to have a regularly scheduled streaming career.
And certainly not when most of his time is dedicated to literally and figuratively fucking around. Guess he found out.*
* No, he didn't; he's learned nothing.
A gay magazine could use this picture for their "Faggot of the Year" issue.
And they'd mean it as an insult, too.