Posted on 06/17/2024 3:52:50 PM PDT by Libloather
Lawyers for Hunter Biden filed, and then quickly deleted, a demand for a new trial after he was found guilty on charges related to lying on a form for purchasing a handgun.
Lawyers filed a new motion withdrawing their motion seeking a new trial nearly immediately after the first filing appeared, a Delaware court's website notes.
'The Motion for a New Trial (formerly DI 233) has been deleted at the request of counsel,' according to the 'correcting entry.'
The legal confusion comes after the president's son was found guilty of three criminal charges in his blockbuster gun and drugs trial.
After a jury handed down the verdict last week, Hunter Biden lawyer Abbe Lowell issued a statement saying 'We are naturally disappointed by today’s verdict' but vowing to 'vigorously' pursue remedies.
'We will continue to vigorously pursue all the legal challenges available to Hunter,' he wrote. Sentencing is expected in the case in September.
The since-deleted filing had made arguments on complex procedural grounds.
It stated that an appeals court 'has not yet issued its mandate as to the orders dismissing either appeal' related to criminal charges involving the president's son. The filing argued that when the court empaneled a jury on June 3, 'it was without jurisdiction to do so.'
Hunter Biden had been expected to appeal the conviction based in part on recent Second Amendment decisions by higher courts.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Lowell for further clarification.
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He had to get the approval of the Donors that fund Hunter’s lifestyle first.
…..vowing to ‘vigorously’ pursue remedies.
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In other words, a presidential pardon. Why should Hunter go through the appeals process? Good old dad will pardon him.
The hand of the meritless Garland and the Deep State..
First off, there’s no way in hell this man could get 25 years in prison for this. The truth is he’s going to get community service and probation.
That will be a two day headline and it’s gone. If they fight this thing it stays in the headlines, they do not want that to happen.
That will be a two day headline and it’s gone. If they fight this thing it stays in the headlines, they do not want that to happen.
But with the tax trial coming up, if he is found guilty, he would be in a much better place as a poor sap with "no priors."
That laptop? Before the election, a TV station in Taiwan published the contents. Apparently their female spies pretend they are hookers and take pictures with their johns.
The laptop has a video Hunter shot of himself smoking crack and getting a blow job. It was online for about ten days and then disappeared. My idiot wealthy friend was all-in for Xiden and wouldn’t even look at the video when I sent her a link and an explanation of how bribable the Xiden family is.
Sentencing likely will be delayed as long as possible, which could be easily as late as October 8. Just to keep using his conviction as justification for Trump and their claimed fairness, I could easily see the judge impose some limited jail time, with the actual reporting to jail date after the election. Then Joe can continue to promise he won’t pardon his son. After the election he will either pardon or commute Hunter’s sentence.
Bottom line, Hunter knows he will never see a day of his life in jail but needs to play the part for now. Supposedly he’ll be accepting the judgment so Joe can try to differentiate how Trump is fighting his.
Hunter probably has word that daddy will give a pardon for his conviction. If it is before the debate, I imagine they are setting a trap for Trump if he brings up the idea of two-tiered justice.
Why haven’t Trump’s lawyers appealed the verdict?
Help me Daddy!
2. You have to wash the corvette every Sunday for a year and test drive it to make sure it's in good shape.
3. Mommy will bake you cookies...and though you hate your Mom's cookies...you will eat 2 a day for a year.
You will not eat powdered donuts.
You will go to church...and thank God that Daddy is President.
You are free to leave.
Because he has to be sentenced first. And that’s not until July 11th.
Hunter will never spend a day i prison for the 4473 crime. I have heard from several lawyers that they have never heard of a person being charged with a 4473 violation that wasn’t in conjunction with another gun-related crime like robbery or assault or murder.
It should have been opened up a long time ago.
In other words, they were told "Don't worry about it. It's taken care of."
Pardon or commutation, or maybe the fix is in with the Judge . Hunter should be in jail for taking bribes, tax evasion, money laundering, influence peddling, acting as an agent for a foreign government, and more. But buying a gun when he was a drug user is just cover for sweeping the others under the rug. It was the one crime that couldn't be tied to dad...
Why bother...he’s getting a pardon one way or the other.
Hunter Biden’s Book Didn’t Fly Off Shelves. Prosecutors Loved It.
Audiobook of his memoir on addiction, played for jury, convicted him of gun charges
‘Hunter Biden’s Memoir Was a Road Map to Conviction for Prosecutors’
By C. Ryan Barber and Jeffrey A. Trachtenber, WSJ.com, June 16, 2024
pic——Hunter Biden carried a copy of his memoir as he arrived at federal court in Wilmington, Del., this month with his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden. PHOTO: KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS
Hunter Biden confronted his demons of alcohol and crack cocaine addiction in his memoir “Beautiful Things,” which garnered favorable reviews but modest sales when it was released months after his father became president. The book came back to haunt him in court. The younger Biden’s trial on gun charges ended last week when a federal jury in Delaware found him guilty of falsely claiming he had no drug problem when he bought a .38-caliber Colt Cobra revolver in October 2018. Prosecutors used the memoir as a more than 250-page confession that effectively served as a road map to a conviction on three felonies.
As a bonus for the government, Hunter Biden had narrated the audiobook version, and prosecutors played portions of it in court, allowing jurors to hear the defendant in his own words discussing his use of crack cocaine during the same period as the gun purchase. That undermined Biden’s argument that he didn’t knowingly violate federal prohibitions on drug users owning firearms. “The book blew up in his face,” said Michael Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor and partner at the law firm Cole Schotz. “The government got the best of both worlds—admissions from him and statements from his own mouth without his own counsels’ ability to water them down.”
One key chapter was “Lost Highway,” in which Biden tells readers that he wasn’t well six years ago. “I had returned that fall of 2018, after my most recent relapse in California, with the hope of getting clean through a new therapy and reconciling with Hallie,” he said of his sister-in-law, with whom he had a romantic relationship following the death of his brother and her late husband, Beau Biden. “Neither happened.” “For all the obvious reasons—my extended disappearances, my inability to stay sober, her need to stabilize and reorder her own life and family—Hallie and I called it quits,” he wrote.
pic——Hunter Biden’s ‘Beautiful Things,’ released shortly after his father became president, has generated modest sales. PHOTO: AGNES BUN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
Biden lawyer Abbe Lowell argued that the book was written reflectively and not as a contemporaneous diary. He told jurors that prosecutors had selectively plucked portions of the memoir to support their “conjecture and suspicion.”
“Beautiful Things” didn’t have particularly strong sales considering that the author’s father was president of the United States. Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books said it sold 61,000 copies through early June this year in all formats, including hardcover, paperback, digital and audio.
The trial has served as an improbable advertisement for the memoir, sparking a recent surge in sales on Amazon, according to data from Publishers Marketplace.
The book’s second life may be of little consolation to Biden, who will likely be sentenced in a few months. He faces up to 25 years behind bars, although any prison term is likely to be a fraction of that, given that he is a first-time, nonviolent offender. He is also expected to face a separate trial on tax charges in September.
The Yale Law School-educated Biden opted against testifying in his own defense in the gun case, which would have exposed him to a potentially withering cross-examination in a trial that already had aired deeply personal inner dynamics of the Biden family and the turmoil that his addiction wrought. Jurors heard plenty from Hunter Biden anyway.
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House arrest at a crackhouse/brothel.
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