Could Balldo Man's comments in his Locals stream end up being admissible during sentencing?
They could. But I doubt they would change much of anything. The sentencing would almost entirely be done according to fixed guidelines. He would get would he would get.
What his stream does is make it impossible for him to play any pity card about addiction during sentencing. He insists that he was never an addict, his behavior was never outside his personal control and any decisions he made were entirely rational decisions on his part. He can never excuse any of his behavior by the cope "I was a drug addict your honor".
So Nick is a guy who had no drug or alcohol problems, was completely rational at all times, was completely in control at all times and made every decision leading up to his arrest in an entirely rational way.
So what he is saying to the court in that video is:
"Fuck you. I do drugs because I love drugs. I'm only not doing drugs because the court is forcing me under compulsion not to do them. The neglect part of the case wasn't due to any drug use by me. I made an entirely rational informed decision to: live in a dirty house, to not do laundry and send people out of the house dirty and hungry. I also made an entirely rational informed decision to have nearly an ounce of cocaine at my house. I am totally responsible for every single thing I did and I really can't say anything as to why I deserve anything other than the normal sentence."
He can't take this back. This traps him into a place where he literally can't even regret the things he has done at sentencing.
While I don't know that this video statement will hurt him in sentencing, it could very well hurt him badly in terms of the deal prosecutors offer him. His comments make it kind of clear that he is an entirely unrepentant drug user who neither accept responsibility for his actions, accepts that he did anything wrong or is going to do anything more than the state requires of him by compulsion.
The other interesting question is however the degree to which the video consists of him lying and gaslighting. That while he is saying one thing to the court, he is saying something entirely different in his videos. Nick making inconsistent statements can also create a whole lot of problems for him later.
I think the only reason he made that video is that he could not avoid telling the world how he never had any drug or alcohol problem. That like every other junkie there is nothing whatsoever wrong with him. The video was more about him lying to himself in the aftermath of rehab (or recovery) than it was communicating with anyone.
