By Wilton Jackson Rich Nichols: “The story is more sympathetic than the initial charges suggest… she looks forward to her opportunity to defend these charges.” After news of the charges against former U.S. women’s soccer star Hope Solo was made public, Rich Nichols—her lawyer—released a statement stating Solo could not speak on the current charges but that her kids are the most important thing to her. Officers from the Winston-Salem Police Department arrested the 40-year-old retired goalkeeper for impaired driving, resisting arrest and misdemeanor child abuse, according to a statement from the…