Posted on 04/20/2024 3:58:56 PM PDT by Libloather
Special counsel David Weiss urged the judge overseeing the Delaware-based federal gun case against Hunter Biden not to allow the defense to delay proceedings in a pointed motion filed late Friday.
On Wednesday, attorneys for President Joe Biden’s son asked to indefinitely stay proceedings pending the outcome of an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit — imploring U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika not to “plow ahead in scheduling a trial.”
In that request, the younger Biden characterized the government’s efforts to move forward with the case as “unlawful and illogical.”
On Friday, Weiss shot back in scathing fashion — saying the defense is wrong about several basic areas of law and federal procedure.
“[T]he defendant for the first time asks this Court to stay the district court proceedings while he pursues a frivolous appeal which the Third Circuit does not have jurisdiction to hear,” the government’s response reads. “Without providing any authority to support his claim that the issues he appeals are subject to interlocutory review, the defendant simply asserts that ‘[t]his Court has been divested of jurisdiction, so it cannot proceed.’ The defendant is incorrect.”
As Law&Crime reported, the defendant intends to raise the same arguments Noreika recently rejected before the appellate panel. Hunter Biden claims his torpedoed plea and diversion agreement “conferred” him with immunity from prosecution and that his indictment violated the separation of powers. He has also argued unsuccessfully that Weiss was unlawfully appointed and funded by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, arguments Donald Trump’s defense attorneys have embraced in the Mar-a-Lago case.
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Is Weiss the same guy who previously let Hunter plead guilty to a couple of misdemeanors and let the Statute of Limitations expire on two felonies?
Now, we are supposed to believe that Weiss is a tough as nails prosecutor, demanding justice?
LOL - the trial venue is Delaware, right?
Someone named Biden, in Delaware, can get a perpetual hung jury.
Total scam prosecution!
Yep, all to influence the election, in Pedo Joe’s favor.
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