Indicted! Hunter Biden!
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The question you probably don’t see pondered that much is whether he’d even have been indicted if his name were Hunter Smith. This almost never gets charged, and when it does there’s usually another crime involved.
Some legal analyst said they could find no other cases where a first offender was charged for this with only one gun and no other crimes involved.
@jon-nyc said in Indicted! Hunter Biden!:
The question you probably don’t see pondered that much is whether he’d even have been indicted if his name were Hunter Smith. This almost never gets charged, and when it does there’s usually another crime involved.
Some legal analyst said they could find no other cases where a first offender was charged for this with only one gun and no other crimes involved.
If he wasn't Hunter Biden, he'd be on the hook for a heckuva lot worse charges than a simple lying in a federal 4473.
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He has tax charges too.
What else are you suggesting?
Unfortunately influence peddling by family isn’t illegal. Hence Jared and his $2B of gulf money.
@jon-nyc said in Indicted! Hunter Biden!:
Unfortunately influence peddling by family isn’t illegal.
The part about being a spy could get tricky
But his team shredded the plea agreement in a Delaware federal court the following month after prosecutor Leo Wise mentioned that the deal’s terms did not include immunity from future charges — including potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
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Different case, but
Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to federal tax charges Thursday, heading off a trial that was expected to further shine an unflattering light on his past business dealings and freewheeling lifestyle.
Biden’s surprise plea capped a whirlwind morning in Los Angeles federal court, where jury selection was set to begin for Biden’s tax trial.At the outset of Thursday’s court proceedings, Biden’s lawyer proposed an unusual deal where President Biden’s son would maintain his innocence while conceding that the evidence was sufficient for a guilty verdict.
Prosecutors said they were shocked by the proposal of a so-called Alford deal and wouldn’t support any plea without an admission of guilt. “Hunter Biden is not innocent. Hunter Biden is guilty,” prosecutor Leo Wise told U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi, a Trump appointee presiding over the case.
Later Thursday, a lawyer for Biden came back from a break and told Scarsi his client would abandon the Alford plea and plead guilty without any negotiated deal with prosecutors working under special counsel David Weiss.
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"To avoid
the jury hearing what was exposed in discoverya trial"Sentencing in December?
How much time, if any, will get at Club Fed?
Remember the laptop that was "Russian disinformation" was used as evidence in this trial.
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Joe will pardon him after the election. No question. At which point we will officially be a banana republic.
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Alford Plea:
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I'm gonna miss the public records on the discovery phase...
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@Jolly said in Indicted! Hunter Biden!:
I'm gonna miss the public records on the discovery phase.
Yup - I said that a while ago.
There's speculation that Hunter took the easy road (pleading guilty to a tax crime) so as to avoid disclosure of OTHER crimes that were revealed to the defense (China, Ukraine, influence peddling, implicating The Big Guy, etc).
"I did it to avoid trauma to my family."
No doubt.
