I think the harassment felony upgrade is bullshit, barring some yet unknown evidence.
One hint lost in the shuffle of yesterday's tweetstorm could shed some light on that:
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Taking that together with all the other annoying times he's played "I've got a secret" lately about what the state "maybe" "hypothetically" "might" be working with in Aaron's case as if meager police updates to the victim passed along any insider knowledge to him, I'm
almost inclined to believe that there could be old DMs floating around out there where Aaron subtly foreshadowed about a trove of lewds that might leak someday, in which case the added context from such DMs could make the leak to Geno so brazenly as on a livestream look like Aaron was following through on a prior threat or even firing a shot across the bow suggesting more to come, which taken together as a pattern could prove intent to harass. It only nears being believable not out of any remaining credibility on Nick's part but because it's just about the only thing that could explain the prosecution getting so much more aggressive than would make sense if they only had what is publicly known.
The existence of old DMs along those lines would also jive with the bizarre détente last summer when Nick was uncharacteristically disciplined in sticking to the "I hope he makes a million dollars" mantra and Aaron reciprocated with such an oddity as
that June 28th "Aaron defends Rekieta!" stream where even nearly-matching shirts seemed to emphasize a show of solidarity:
OK fine, surely the shirt thing was just a funny coincidence, but the content was not, with Aaron making clear that "it's not a clickbait title" and proceeding to urge the a-logs to quit being so hard on his poor ol' buddy Nick, in an oddly abrupt heel-turn
mere days after having said that
Nick's "soul should burn in the lake of fire" and that he deserves
"special place in hell." It's hard to imagine what could have caused this sudden 180° but one possible explanation could be that they had been privately trading barbs up to that time (whether directly or through acquaintances) about the various dirt they still had on each other, until recognizing a sense of mutually assured destruction that prompted a truce of sorts where each would hold off on anything that could get either of them in more trouble than they were already in.
Any such Faustian bargain would have to have broken down sometime between June 28th and when Nick had Kayla make the formal police report on July 18th, perhaps because Nick got pissed at the state's
July 3rd disclosure of audio recordings of everything Aaron said to the cops, or perhaps because Nick got pissed when he was
informed of the revenge porn for (supposedly) the first time by Grifty on July 11th, or due to any other events in that timeframe that could have set off Nick's mercurial temperament. However the short-lived ceasefire fell apart, the trail of communications leveling threats at each other in the lead-up to it would remain, and Nick wouldn't be above feeding the cops any cherry-picked DMs from Aaron's side of that conversation in hopes that they would use as proof of intent to harass.
That said, for now Nick's claim of the mystery DM should be discounted in part because he has a demonstrated history of leaking DMs that he thinks are some sort of own but actually end up making the sender look
better, and in part because you'd think the state would have been shouting from the rooftops about such a smoking gun in their possession. Instead their complaint's
only mention of any evidence of intent to harass was the fact that Aaron tended to talk shit about the Rekietas on his show, and their amended complaint conspicuously removed
any reference to harassing intent altogether:
Perhaps it's possible that Nick gave the cops this mystery DM sometime
after the amended complaint for some reason, but that shouldn't be the case either because the state has an obligation to disclose any newfound evidence that they intend to use, whereas Aaron's MCRO docket doesn't reflect any rounds of "supplemental" disclosures like Nick's case had. Unless Stearns County just skips the formality of filing supplementals like Kandiyohi County does, it would appear that the state is only working with what it had as of the time of its one and only filed disclosure. Admittedly that sole disclosure states such vague catchall categories that the mystery DM could fall within several of them, but you'd think they didn't have such a DM at the time of the disclosure because it was filed on the
same day as the complaint that didn't bother to mention such a DM at all:
Sorry Nick, nobody's going to fall for this shit. Surely this mystery DM is so impeccably authenticated, untainted by its surrounding context, and untainted by the manner in which it was acquired that its admissibility and jury impact would
never be diminished by anything you do now, so there's no need to leave everyone in suspense until May and you really should just leak the damned thing now for all the world to see. It's time to show everyone how Aaron really is and bask in the glory of the W to end all Ws Nick, you can do it!
enthusiast, "
️jock" 
"lawyer", 
, "
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for fun, visits 
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a felonious, 
. End-stage career failure: normies know.
