- Dołączono
- 28 Gru 2014
A trial is always expensive. It's a little less harsh on the state because they have a stable of experts who do cases in volume for less than a privately hired expert would get and this for a minor bullshit case likely to get nearly the same result in the end.He's lying when he says he can make it very expensive for the state. All of his bullshit motions get bushed aside, and they got him dead to rights.
He can't break the bank, even of a small county DA, but it's enough to have a bit of leverage.
Now they can make it harder for him for doing that, like going hard on him over the "hacking" shit or requesting an upward deviation from sentencing guidelines, and retaliating against a potential witness in the case against him to attempt to obstruct justice would certainly be the sort of aggravating factor that would apply.
I'm not sure where in the process in Minnesota they're required to do that, but generally an upward deviation requires facts proven at trial beyond a reasonable doubt, so at the very latest, it would be before the finder of fact deliberates on the subject and might require a special jury questionnaire, since most jury forms simply have the option of "guilty" or "not guilty," and deviations require specific factual findings. (If it's the judge as fact-finder, the judge has to issue a written findings of fact.)
Now the state clearly has the best hand here, and if Nick tries to play 72 like it's aces, he's going to have a bad time, but he's not entirely without leverage. He just doesn't have much and they know it.
B-b-b-but maybe I have an evil twin and it's his cocaine! Or. . .the cocaine gnomes left it!- It sure sounds like he failed at least one drug/alcohol test. He larps on about how they get the reports a week later, how the alcohol could be in a sauce from cooking. (I mean...)
God shut the fuck up Nick you cringy, embarrassing faggot.