Posted on 06/21/2023 5:52:53 PM PDT by grundle
The lawyer for a prominent rapper is speaking out over Hunter Biden's sweetheart plea deal that allows him to avoid prison for illegally possessing a firearm.
In 2019, rapper Kodak Black pleaded guilty to providing false information on a federal form when purchasing multiple firearms.
Black pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6), using false statements to obtain a firearm. Biden was charged with violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) and 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2). The latter statute says that anyone who who "knowingly violates" several subsections of 18 U.S.C. § 922, including (a)(6), can be imprisoned for up to 10 years.
Thus in the eyes of the law, Black and Biden committed the same crime. They both provided false information on federal forms to acquire firearms despite being legally disqualified from making those purchases.
Yet Black was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for his crime. Biden, on the other hand, was given pre-trial diversion and the opportunity to expunge the charge from his record after 24 months.
Attorney Bradford Cohen, who represents Black, called out the glaring disparity in outcomes.
"There's no such thing as not getting jail time on a gun charge, on any kind of gun charge," Cohen told Fox News. "I've never seen anyone where this offense was charged and they didn't get some sort of prison sentence. And in fact, most of the time in federal court, you very rarely see people get anything but a prison sentence."
Cohen cited the college admissions scandal as evidence that federal authorities rarely let offenders off without spending time behind bars.
"So, in this Felicity Huffman case, to give the woman two weeks in prison, you know that you actually have to surrender yourself going for two weeks, change her clothes out to all this stuff, for literally 14 days. And this guy gets absolutely nothing? I've just never seen it happen," Cohen said.
"A federal crime is supposed to be a federal crime," he explained. "And federal crimes are supposed to be very serious federal crimes, and that's why you look at prison sentences."
Earlier in the day, Cohen suggested Biden's plea deal showed there are two tiers of justice in America.
Cohen wrote on Instagram, "2 tiers of justice? Kodak was charged for the same crime. Got over 3 years. Mr. Biden will not serve a day. Feels right? Do FBI agents and federal authorities take cases personally?"
Rapper Lil Wayne similarly faced significant prison time — up to 10 years — after he pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a firearm, charged under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), the same subsection as Biden.
Wayne, however, never spent time in prison for the crime because Donald Trump pardoned him. Trump also commuted Black's sentence before leaving office.
To be fair, Black and Wayne were repeat offenders with prior criminal histories. Biden, by contrast, does not, which mitigates potential criminal penalties. But to Cohen's point, it's jarring that federal prosecutors would let the gun crime slip away altogether.
You can say Hunter is a poster boy for leftist white privilege.
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Joe will be out again tomorrow blasting people that have guns, and saying the “Rich” don’t pay their taxes.
I never understood why elected Republicans didn’t point out the obvious hypocrisy.
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“To be fair, Black and Wayne were repeat offenders with prior criminal histories. Biden, by contrast, does not”
Yeah... other than prostitution, molesting his teen niece, human sex trafficking, raping a Chinese girl on video, cocaine, bribery in Asia AND in Europe.
Other than that, he’s squeaky clean.
I was teaching ELA at a school for juvenile felons when Kodak was nabbed for this. My kids were outraged, and wrote FREE KODAK on everything.
They also thought Trump was “Raaayyyycisss...” except for a few who would remind everyone that Trump was a hero to many rappers (and ghetto ‘rats).
Kodak turned out to be a pretty cool dude.
Just one of the 300,000 laws the Union government can get you on.
Banana Republics dictator son gets off easy,just like in many other leftist countries across the planet
Trump had no problem working with Mike Tyson and Don King...
School for juvenile felons...Los Angeles County Office of Education operates such schools in Los Angeles County..."Community Day Schools"...Juvenile Hall schools...
Yeah, it was actually a Level 2 Day Treatment Center with educational services (I snicker when I say that, most of these kids were idiot. We had ONE kid who read at grade level, the others *maybe* could read at a fifth grade leve.
They were feral idiots, but some, deep down, were sweethearts caught in a bad situation (parents were trash, grandparents were trash, etc.) It was largely hopeless.
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