My God, the revionism.
They are listing facts like they were rumors or refuted. What morons.
Here are some facts.
1. Nick was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 28 remaining. He is ordered to begin that sentence on 8/1 @ 7pm. The court MAY suspend it. It's not automatic.
2. Nick's kid tested positive for cocaine. Nick didn't need "use immunity" for child safety questions when they already said the independent cocaine test wasn't going to be used for charges.
3. Nick was swinging.
4. The endangerment and gun charges were dismissed and the drug charges were reduced as part of the agreement. It wasn't due to any lack of evidence. Nick signed the agreement acknowledging they had evidence they believed proved all of the crimes.
Barnes is trying to bamboozle people into thinking Nick did a brilliant job and got a killer deal.
In reality, when Nick was stopped in his car per the warrant, he had no drugs on him. He wasn't under the influence of drugs. He wasn't selling drugs. Nick listened to Barnes and did the "mah constitution!" and dug in hard like he was a drug lord kingpin. Competent advice and contrition would likely have seen an agreement for a misdemeanor and over in a month. But Nick made them work on all fronts because Barnes. Even in that stream he said, like it was a good thing, that raising all that shit makes the prosecutors stronger. That fucking retard is why Nick is the only non-dealer convicted of a felony for having cocaine in his house. Not on his person and not DUI. Fucking Barnes.
Barnes is the female lawyer in A Few Good Men. He has no common sense to see how things should handled. He's retarded.
Nick would likely only have 6 more months of probation if he started with what all the real lawyers told him to do:
1. Go to rehab immediately (instead he made them force him to rehab).
2. Work immediately on a plea deal (instead he made them work on Franks motions and read appelate work)..
3. Work with CPS (instead he made them defend themselves against all sorts of scurrilous accusations and obtusely believed his answers about cocaine would incriminate him when they weren't even going to use the most damning evidence: the kids drug test).
And voila, misdemeanor personal possession charge or maybe just a misdemeanor unsafe firearm storage. Kids returned in 3 mos instead of 6. Probable probation starts in 9/24 and ends 8/25.