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

[Ed Craven]

The Assets & Branding page only says:


If @Caroline Farrow can make her own KF shirt, I think a respectable person could make their own KF press pass.

If you show up with one of these they should chuck you straight in the bin

 

[Autistic Integrity]

I've never wished it was still covid time more than now. Simply so this would be held over zoom for all to hear live.

 

[Apostle Sneed]

New filings:

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

The what now?

Am I brain shorting? I seem to recall that happening (if not on discord).

 

[Himedall All-seeing Waifu]

Am I brain shorting? I seem to recall that happening (if not on discord).

I pride myself on a comprehensive knowledge, but I am not encyclopaedic. I would appreciate a link if anyone has one.


I reference to the case itself and the outcome of the omnibus, it appears that Nick has 'won' trivial concessions that will merely prolong the process or force the prosecution to point out the absurdity of his arguments.:


- April's statements

They cannot be played without her present, so they will just hale her into court, play them, and cross-examine her. The same effect with more steps.


- The YouTube video being 'altered'

It read to me that the judge wants to be briefed on the tech issue, and the outcome depends on how much Nick can bamboozle the judge with technical terms. If there is an explanation that satisfies the judge that the video was pulled from an authentic copy (or that the copy meets the level of Probable Cause) then it is harmless error or just plain confusion about a distinction without a difference.


- Aaron's status as a 'concerned citizen'

It seems like the warrant has enough from others without Aaron to establish Probable Cause, and if they really get into a slapfight over Aaron being a bad source, they can just argue that Pomplun did the best he could on the information he had. Considering the totality of the evidence, I think he easily reaches PC.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Yeah, that's my question about all this for any Legal Observers: is there any point to Nick's SuperLawyer (TM) shenanigans? Even if every single one of his Hail Mary arguments carries the day, could it possibly overturn the warrant? Let's say the court goes under full twignosis and accepts that Officer QP was watching edited clips out-of-context, Aaron is a vengeful jilted lover, the Scandinavian Prudes were only concerned about child neglect, and so on. In what universe does that not add up to "Cops better check this out"?

 

[mailfrawd]

Yeah, that's my question about all this for any Legal Observers: is there any point to Nick's SuperLawyer (TM) shenanigans? Even if every single one of his Hail Mary arguments carries the day, could it possibly overturn the warrant? Let's say the court goes under full twignosis and accepts that Officer QP was watching edited clips out-of-context, Aaron is a vengeful jilted lover, the Scandinavian Prudes were only concerned about child neglect, and so on. In what universe does that not add up to "Cops better check this out"?

I'd say ask one of the YT lawyers but I'm convinced that the legal system is just high-stakes gambling where, analogous to Vegas and the house always wins, the only winners are the lawyers.

Edit: I'm not talking about Nick either. Even if he manages to get the warrant tossed, think about what this cost him. Money, time, reputation, his relationship with his community, family, children. Nick loses no matter what, and every bit of it was preventable. Hubris is a motherf'er.

 

[Lian Xing]

Yeah, that's my question about all this for any Legal Observers: is there any point to Nick's SuperLawyer (TM) shenanigans?

They got him dead to rights on the felonious amount of cocaine possession. The only way to sink the case is to invalidate the warrant. I believe it is fruit of the poisonous tree means if the warrant is tossed, the State has no cocaine possession case. The shenanigans are the only real play a narcissist has. Normal people would take the L, plead out, and clean up.

 

[Kosher Dill]

They got him dead to rights on the felonious amount of cocaine possession. The only way to sink the case is to invalidate the warrant.

Right, but even if the court accepts every single argument Nick's making, it doesn't sound (to this non-lawyer) anywhere near enough to get the warrant tossed out.

 

[Owlbear]

Yeah, that's my question about all this for any Legal Observers: is there any point to Nick's SuperLawyer (TM) shenanigans? Even if every single one of his Hail Mary arguments carries the day, could it possibly overturn the warrant? Let's say the court goes under full twignosis and accepts that Officer QP was watching edited clips out-of-context, Aaron is a vengeful jilted lover, the Scandinavian Prudes were only concerned about child neglect, and so on. In what universe does that not add up to "Cops better check this out"?

If you look at what Alec Baldwin's lawyers did, that is what Nick Rekieta wants to do. The man negligently killed a person and got his case thrown out because the prosecution was less than honest. Rekieta wants to get the case thrown out on malfeasance/impropriety from the police or prosecution the same way. Never mind that Alec Baldwin's case was very complex and Rekieta's is simple. Never mind that Baldwin spent a shit load of money on a team of 10 of the best lawyers in the world and still had to get lucky to do it, while Rekieta has himself and a Barneswalker. Never mind that the prosecution in Baldwin's case was clearly out to get him, while Kandiyohi county seems to be bending over backwards to not screw the Rekieta kids too much.

His only available line of attack seems to be against the warrant (although secondarily proving that the cops are out to get him might work), since all they need is the warrant to get the bodycam footage of the house and the coke in.

 

[Qod]

It's tomorrow.

Sorry. Thanks for the update.

 

[AnOminous]

- April's statements

They cannot be played without her present, so they will just hale her into court, play them, and cross-examine her. The same effect with more steps.

They can't do that if her case is ongoing. She'll just take the Fifth.

Rekieta wants to get the case thrown out on malfeasance/impropriety from the police or prosecution the same way.

Most prosecutors these days are pretty good at avoiding Brady violations, or at least about not getting caught at it.

 

[Thomas Talus]

Most prosecutors these days are pretty good at avoiding Brady violations, or at least about not getting caught at it.

Unless they're working under Kamala Harris, anyway.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

Could Null make an argument for the livestream based on Nick Rekeita's good friend Ethan Ralph attending the hearing and video taping people at the courthouse for the sole purpose to intimidate attendees (and possible jurors when the trial comes)? or is that a tough titty situation?

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Could Null make an argument for the livestream based on Ethan Ralph attending the hearing and video taping people walking in and out for the sole purpose to intimidate attendees (and possible jurors when the trial comes)? or is that a tough titty situation?

I wouldn't get my hopes up for that argument.

 

[Hrothgar]

Could Null make an argument for the livestream based on Nick Rekeita's good friend Ethan Ralph attending the hearing and video taping people at the courthouse for the sole purpose to intimidate attendees (and possible jurors when the trial comes)? or is that a tough titty situation?

I want him to try just so Nick's lawyer can play the video and say, "Your Honor, he denied his own name and ran away when someone recognized him. He's 5'1" after he puts on his 3" lifts. You can avoid him by walking up a mild incline. No one is going to be intimidated."

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Could Null make an argument for the livestream based on Nick Rekeita's good friend Ethan Ralph attending the hearing and video taping people at the courthouse for the sole purpose to intimidate attendees (and possible jurors when the trial comes)? or is that a tough titty situation?

I'm not sure the court cares about members of the public that are purely observing been threatened or coerced into not attending.

 

[repentance]

Could Null make an argument for the livestream based on Nick Rekeita's good friend Ethan Ralph attending the hearing and video taping people at the courthouse for the sole purpose to intimidate attendees (and possible jurors when the trial comes)? or is that a tough titty situation?

No. Ralph didn't stream any of the proceedings, which is what we're looking to have happen. Two totally different beasts and if permission is given for the proceedings to be streamed it won't include arrivals and departures outside the courthouse (although media regularly covers those).

 

[Owlbear]

Most prosecutors these days are pretty good at avoiding Brady violations, or at least about not getting caught at it.

I think people believe that Alec Baldwin entirely got lucky about the Brady violation, but the New Mexico Karen of a lawyer would have gotten away with this given a less competent defense team and one with a budget that has any limits at all. As far as I can tell, the man spent several hundred thousand dollars (if not a million) finding that.

I also think that Nick Rekieta clearly believes that he is in a position to run the same playbook despite that he has nowhere near that level of capability. Rekieta's budget is clearly limited, hence the fact that he didn't hire a firm like Quinn Emanuel (QE is for lefties, but there are right-wing biglaw firms). He made the mistake of hiring Randazza, who bills close to biglaw rates, for his dumbass civil case, so he seems to have gone for "good value" by hiring the Barneswalker.

 

[DiabeticSydePhil]

He made the mistake of hiring Randazza, who bills close to biglaw rates, for his dumbass civil case, so he seems to have gone for "good value" by hiring the Barneswalker.

I think that's one of the interesting points. We don't know how much money Nick is getting from the trust, because it's allowed him + streaming to kinda fuck around with his money, but between the fall off of streaming and continued legal troubles, I wonder if the well is drying up.

If Nick wasn't concerned about money, he would have gotten a Randazza lawyer again, but he didn't, for much more serious legal drama.

Obviously at the time Nick didn't think he'd NEED big lawyer money for anything serious, but it's clear it wasn't an option this time or he would have taken it.

The other possibility (more unlikely) is that he couldn't find a lawyer who would deal with his bullshit without scraping the barrel.

It's also likely he's paying (indirectly or not) for both his and Kayla's lawyers, and potentially April's as well. Shit isn't cheap.