It's been brought up before up thread, but if the bodycam is not presented in court, it is possible they never release it. (A matter of public interest or concern is the typical exception, as well as any death captured on cam.) Minnesota has, for whatever reason, very strict rules about releasing this material.
He looks like such a disgusting crackhead here, even more then Usual. Jesus Christ, ~ eyes bulging ~ very disrespectfully in front of his locals chat.
I think it's a safe bet that Nick is taking this to trial. He basically has to if he wants to appeal the ruling on the Franks motion.
Sounds like Barneswalker attended the Ty Beard School of Law. Nice lawyering, stupid!
you can challenge the probable cause without asking for a franks hearing. but that should have been done at the omnibus itself, or done completely in the motion for the franks hearing, which it wasn't, since the motion focused mostly on just trying to get the franks hearing.
i don't know if it's a massive fuck-up so much as it is a hail mary since the probable cause just isn't worth attacking. the state vaguely suggested the possibility of scheduling a briefing for a probable cause dismissal, and if the judge was in a good mood, he might have given them the chance, but he didn't. half-assing something that had no chance of working anyway isn't the same as failing to do something they really should have.
I think Nick and his genius lawyer thought that the Frank's hearing was a foregone conclusion, so there was no need to bring up silly things... like probable cause.
Even if Barneswalker didn't want to make a probably losing argument the primary focus of the hearing, it was incompetence at the very least bordering on malpractice not even to give it a passing mention enough to preserve the issue.
"Probable cause, who gives a fuck?
Almost all "catch-all" rules like this allowing a court to deviate from its standard practice have a really high bar to clear to justify why this specific case justifies such a deviation. There's absolutely nothing about this completely routine, cut-and-dried ruling that would justify allowing an interlocutory appeal. Not even Randazza could come up with a good argument for it, and instead, Nick has his own personal Ty Beard who bumbled and fumbled the basic probable cause issue so it's not even on the table any more.
God’s universe is a just place.
Hey now, he could have a Tarrus....
One thing I think needs to be mentioned... How willing is the prosecution going to give a plea right now given that this is an election year, he's a (relatively major) public figure locally, the judge just made a fact finding report and concluded the evidence in the record, and he keeps screaming conspiracy while talking about pussy liqueur judges lmao.
My only criticism is he didn't use the Nick Rekieta AI cover of this song for extra lulz.
