Hyperbolic speculation incoming:
I woke up this morning wondering if Kayla has been committed, colloquially known as Baker Acted (The Minnesota Commitment and Treatment Act). Her family may have even consented. That would explain Nick falling on the sword for her criminal exoneration.
if you factor in that theory the other guy had of Kayla getting Baker Act'd it makes more sense,
the idea that Kayla could have been Baker Act'd and the kids are still all remaining in that household is wild. Both parents are drug addicts and most likely also exposed their kids to sexual situations, and then the mom is also insane/a danger to herself and others?
That almost certainly couldn't have happened and gone undetected because all MCTA cases are required to be publicly accessible on MCRO:
Minn. R. Pub. Access to Recs. of Jud. Branch 8, subd. 2(e)
Just to double-check with a representative sample, commitment proceedings do routinely appear on
public court calendars where unknown court file numbers are most easily found, are searchable by court file number just like preconviction criminal cases, and are indeed even
more public than preconviction criminal cases to the extent that the dockets are searchable by name index even though actual documents aren't downloadable:
Having established that, it's safe to infer that Kayla's search results mean there's been no commitment case so far:
Admittedly there is always the possibility that the petitioner in such a case might have scrambled to get it sealed on "muh public figure" grounds, but as already seen in the CHIPS case, the motion and hearing process involved in sealing a presumptively public case can take weeks or even months. Assuming that various a-logs out there have been pinging name searches of principal characters on an at least weekly basis (if not daily basis) just in case it'd snag an early scoop on a divorce or new speeding ticket or the like, the odds of
everyone missing a commitment case for the weeks it'd take to seal it are very slim.
That said, the recent suicide-baiting's heightened odds of a commitment case popping up in the near future is another added reason to keep up the "divorce watch" name searches on a frequent basis, if that's not being done already.