This is not "verification" of anything
Admittedly, it's not. But it
does suggest that BBN didn't make the claim up out of whole cloth, ala Kinochet. Not if other people heard it elsewhere prior.
The underlying claim could still be wrong, of course, but I don't think it's being repeated by BBN maliciously, and with knowledge of falsehood by BBN.
I've not seen anything indicating he was planning to accept a plea deal.. What makes you think he was willing?
Nick sending Melton a 100$ superchat saying "I will have to do something because its best for my family and to show my boys how to be responsible".
Praphrasing because I am zoo lazy to find the actual quote.
There were two superchats which, read together, form a sort of amalgamation of what you just said.
It should be noted the second one suggests he's looking to end it to preserve his
own sanity though. Not for the good of his family. Nick doesn't GAS about his family.
To Nick, the right thing is to reject any plea that requires him to plead guilty to something he thinks he didn't do. That's the example he wants to set for his children. The anathema is not taking the deal, b/c he knows the odds ain't great.
Except you forget the other chat where he says that dragging this out further would drive him insane.
A plea would end all of this in short order (except for satisfying probation, of course). A trial would NOT. It would drag out this farce even longer. It's not hard to see why so many people in this thread thought, based on what he was saying in Melton's chat, that Tuesday would end with a signed plea deal.
Moreover, while I totally get that Nick is an arrogant son of a bitch who can never admit when he's wrong (hence it being an "anathema" for him), it should be noted that him taking a plea would dovetail with his meager professional experience.
Most of Nick's cases, as a defense attorney, have ended with him pleading out his clients where he can't secure a dismissal. Nick has never outright won an acquittal, ever. I'm not sure Nick knows how to get an acquittal.
In Nick's case, obviously, he utterly failed to secure a dismissal, so guess what other tactic he knows to apply here.
EDIT: Typo.