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

[Harambe]

this is the sign you needed nick, that nothing was wrong in your life and everything is FINE

 

[Jace on ice]

He's not a lawyer anymore right? So is streaming his only choice for income unless he gets a real job?

 

[Buck Broken Chimp]

Not only Does Nick sweep the lolcow of the year award, he even has the justice system sweep for him.

This shit is is funking rigged

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

We didn’t lose, Nick is still fucked. He still has a lolsuit, and those kids are not falling off CPS radar ever. Nick’s legal and financial woes are only beginning, and it only goes down hill from here. He still has to pay his defense attorney, Rendazza, and he has seven mouths to (not) feed.

The money train is permanently derailed, the tracks are fucked, and no one has the money to stop the crude from leaking.

He lost a fully paid-off half-million dollar home. Poof, gone. I don't care who you are that's going to leave a mark.

 

[Sheryl Nome]

Yup thats about what i expected

First offender, now Nick gets to be on probation, almost certainly with Random UAs for the next few years.

 

[moocow]

those kids are not falling off CPS radar ever

Yes they will. CPS is universally dogshit and incompetent in almost all situations. Any CPS agency successfully intervening in a child's life and making a positive impact for that child is an unintentional accident and/or act of God.

At a minimum, CPS is "overworked and understaffed" (like any inefficient government bureaucracy). At worst (and imho), they're staffed by the most incompetent, stupid, lazy, hate-filled human beings you can find who don't qualify for TSA work but are still somehow qualified for paid labor.

Also, is it typical to be allowed to retract a plea if the deal is not accepted (see below), or are you typically throwing yourself on the mercy of the court?

Sure. You can retract a plea deal right up until the moment the judge asks you if you still want to accept it and make the pleas you agreed to. That's your last chance to say "you know what? No, I actually don't accept this deal. It's wrong/I'm innocent/they're lying and not holding up their end of the bargain/etc." Signing a plea deal doesn't bind you to it unless you go through with it in court before the judge.

Granted, waiting to the 11th hour to say "nah, I changed my mind" tends to annoy everyone involved, and that rarely ends well for you, but it's still your legal right to do so.

 

[Beavis]

Not only Does Nick sweep the lolcow of the year award, he even has the justice system sweep for him.

This shit is is funking rigged

He was never going to serve time. He lives in a very liberal state and they are very lenient with drug addicts like Nick. It also helps that he has money and a support system.

 

[A Real Munson]

I bet his folks are so proud of him for landing this massive W. I wonder when the next time is we'll see his dad on stream or in the chat.

 

[Folgers Can]

It's mandatory in Minnesota, as has previously been posted, for a felony conviction, and permissive for any other conviction.

What's mystifying here though is that the statutory mandate is triggered by being "convicted of a felony," whereas now we see that this is a stay of adjudication invoking a separate statute requiring that "the court shall" proceed "without entering a judgment of guilty," i.e. no actual felony conviction that would even trigger a mandatory PSI in the first place. This makes one wonder if Judge Wentzell was so unhappy with the deal as to unilaterally insist on a permissive PSI report that he can use as an excuse for unexpectedly draconian exercise of the sentencing discretion that the plea petition explicitly carved out for him. Nick would do well to forgo any more unrepentant public gloating until that second hearing is done and over with, or he could be in for an unpleasant surprise.

 

[Thomas Talus]

Interesting. Do you happen to know the history behind this American procedural quirk?

Also, is it typical to be allowed to retract a plea if the deal is not accepted (see below), or are you typically throwing yourself on the mercy of the court?

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The plea deal is a mechanism to try and save judicial resources by encouraging settlement rather than fighting at trial. If every case had to go to trial because no one would plead out, the system would collapse, so everyone agrees that they'll do their best to keep the plea bargain method the best choice. But it never truly replaced the court's authority to choose sentencing.

Whether you can take it back is going to depend on local practice, and possibly on the sort of crime you are pleading to. If it's incorporated into the local forms, it's presumably standard practice in that county/state. For the county where I primarily practice, it says that the judge is not required to follow anyone's recommendation, and can give you up to the maximum sentence if they so choose. No language about ability to withdraw the plea if the judge doesn't want to go along with the proposed sentence.

 

[Dizzyuntildeath]

Remember he also openly flaunted his cuckoldry and swinging and even brought his side whore down to the Dairy Queen so everyone could appreciate what a cool, swinging sex god he thinks he is.

He must be a local joke. There's no way his kids don't get flak for it, thanks to this worthless asshole openly flouting normal social conventions while flaunting his degeneracy.

The very name "Rekieta" is permanently ruined. I wouldn't be surprised if people in his family change their surname just not to be associated with this fucking loser.

Imagine basing your life off a joke article you read in a 1970s Playboy.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

What kind of time does 3rd degree possession entail? I'm just laughing at the idea that Aaron Imholte is looking at doing more time than the Balldo.

None. And the doc posted shows the adjudication as stayed - which means, as @Null pointed out, that if the court accepts the plea as described in the doc and Nick meets whatever requirements for x period of time, he does not have a conviction, either.

 

[Paradox Mystic]

He's not a lawyer anymore right? So is streaming his only choice for income unless he gets a real job?

Best case scenario he can become a lawyer again, but with his drug addiction and alcoholism he's probably too far gone unless some sort of black swan event happens. I can't imagine him being able to get a job like flipping burgers without getting trolled IRL and having the place harassed over the phone. Maybe someone in his friend circle or family can hook him up with something like working tech support online to help give him a cashflow outside of streaming.

 

[Buck Broken Chimp]

He was never going to serve time. He lives in a very liberal state and they are very lenient with drug addicts like Nick. It also helps that he has money and a support system.

I knew that, what I thought is that he would go down swinging like a retard and be the big man Libertarian who fights the system, instead he was a statis baby who did what daddy government wanted.

Even in liberal states if you try to fight your drug charges to the bitter end and don't just take the generous deal you can get fucked up.

 

[JustStopDude]

He's not a lawyer anymore right? So is streaming his only choice for income unless he gets a real job?

Not necessarily. His state bar probably suspend his license unless he goes into drug treatment, which if it's anything like my own state licensing board in engineering, they will offer assistance for it.

I don't see him taking them up on it. I also don't see him getting clean. If anything, this will feel like he got off, feeding his ego.

His kids are pretty screwed.

 

[Schlomo Silverscreenblatt]

my nigga is a criminal now. BASED

 

[TwinPeaksEnjoyer]

This is the important part, I think:

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I have been told by my attorney and understand:
a. That my attorney discussed this case with one of the prosecuting attorneys and that my attorney and the prosecuting attorney agreed that if I entered a plea of guilty, the prosecutor will do the following: (Give substance of the agreement)

• Plead guilty to amended charge of drug possession in the third degree
• Statutory stay of adjudication pursuant to Minn. Stat. §152.18
• Remaining terms of the sentence at Court’s discretion
• State drops all other charges.
• State dismisses 34-CR-24-342 against Kayla Rekieta and case against April Imholte

Good news about this that Rekieta didn't pull a faggot move by throwing his wife under the bus.

 

[Sheryl Nome]

Best case scenario he can become a lawyer again, but with his drug addiction and alcoholism he's probably too far gone unless some sort of black swan event happens. I can't imagine him being able to get a job like flipping burgers without getting trolled IRL and having the place harassed over the phone. Maybe someone in his friend circle or family can hook him up with something like working tech support online to help give him a cashflow outside of streaming.

Yeah nobody's ever heard of a lawyer with substance abuse issues

Thats like the least disqualifying thing of all he's done.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Best case scenario he can become a lawyer again, but with his drug addiction and alcoholism he's probably too far gone unless some sort of black swan event happens. I can't imagine him being able to get a job like flipping burgers without getting trolled IRL and having the place harassed over the phone. Maybe someone in his friend circle or family can hook him up with something like working tech support online to help give him a cashflow outside of streaming.

Barring some new disciplinary complaint/ determination, all he has to do is bring/keep his CLE requirements up to date, and pay his yearly lawyer registration fees (on fucking time, Nick), and he becomes/remains a lawyer in good standing, able to practice law in the State of Minnesota.

That said, being eligible to practice does not make him a legal expert, or a practicing lawyer, or a good lawyer.

He went to law school. He practiced for 3ish years. He doesn't know shit. Never believe he speaks from experience or authority, because he has neither.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Hopefully he can keep busy for the next few months making sure Monty’s new house is ready for Monty.