Hunter Biden’s attorneys say they ‘never tried to mislead’ court in response to judge’s sanction threat

The Hill ^ | 7/28/24 | Miranda Nazzaro

[Libloather]

Attorneys for Hunter Biden pushed back against a federal judge’s threat to sanction them for making “false statements,” while admitting their motion to dismiss Biden’s criminal charges in California.

In a filing Sunday with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Biden’s legal team said they “never tried to mislead” the court after U.S. District Judge Mark Scarcsi wrote Biden’s attorneys falsely claimed U.S. Attorney David Weiss did not bring charges against the president’s son until after he was appointed special counsel.

“Defense counsel, perhaps inartfully, intended this use of the word ‘charges’ to refer to the current charges brought by indictment against Mr. Biden, not the lack of any charges at all,” Biden’s attorneys wrote. “Here, context matters.”

The part of the motion in question stated, “As U.S. Attorney he had years to bring whatever charges he believed were merited, but he brought no charges until after he received the Special Counsel title that he sought.”

Scarsi, in his order last week, wrote Weiss brought the initial charges against Biden as a U.S. Attorney and before being appointed Special Counsel and accused the lawyers of filing misstatements.

The younger Biden’s lawyers said they will amend the motion to replace the word “charges” with “indictments” in the contested statements, but emphasized the wording is not misleading when in context.

“Nevertheless, there is no basis on which to sanction Mr. Biden’s counsel for the use of that one word, which was not misleading in the context in which the two prior Informations had been repeatedly addressed with the Court,” the lawyers wrote.

It comes days after Scarsi issued an order to the legal team asking them to “show cause why sanctions should not be imposed for making false statements in the motion.”

[Libloather]

Pedo Pete has one brain cell left. Better hurry up on that pardon.

[PGalt]

The Biden Crime Family should be in prison at the least. The rule of law has been eviscerated.

[Liz]

U.S. District Court Judge Mark Scarsi memorably wrote:

“The misstatements in the current motion are not trivial. Mr. Weiss’s institution of charges against Mr. Biden in his capacity as U.S. Attorney offers a meaningful distinction between this case and the nonbinding district court decision on which Mr.Biden bases his motion.

But Mr. Biden’s motion does not engage with this distinction; instead, counsel avoids the issue by misrepresenting the history of the proceedings. This Court has little tolerance for lack of candor from counsel.”

[Liz]

Hunter Biden’s well-paid legal team is squirming. They got caught
with their hands in the cookie jar by a very wise, discerning judge.

Could also explain Joe’s hunkering down in the basement again,
invisible to the naked eye, conniving to save Hunter’s rear.

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Hunter “never tried to mislead” the court, they lied, as they stupidly
piggybacked Hunter’s case on the S/C decision WRT Trump.

District Judge Mark Scarcsi told them to go fly a kite, succinctly writing:

“Hunter Biden’s attorneys falsely claimed U.S. Attorney David Weiss did not bring charges against until after he was appointed special counsel. But Mr. Biden’s motion does not engage with this distinction; instead, counsel avoids the issue by misrepresenting the history of the proceedings. This Court has little tolerance for lack of candor from counsel.”

[Ann Archy]

ALL LIES!!!

[Liz]

Scarsi pointed out that Weiss brought the initial charges against Biden
“as a U.S. Attorney” and before being appointed “Special Counsel.”

Scarsi accused the lawyers of “filing misstatements.”

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The budding lawyer’s lesson first day in Law School ........”never lie to a judge.”

[CaptainKip]

Interesting... all this time I was under the impression that making false statements to a court was, in fact, the criminal charge of perjury, not an oopsy.

[mewzilla]

Not for the Harkles...

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Liz :" The budding lawyer’s lesson first day in Law School ........”never lie to a judge.”

Intentional omitting other pending criminal charges against problem son Hunter Biden does not pss the test under 'plausible deniability'.
It was a 'sweet heart' deal of admitting to one criminal charge that, in essence,forgave the other pending charges.
When this fact was discerned and discovered by an alert judge, the U.S. Attny. attempted falsely to deny collusion or obfuscation.
The U.S. Attnys. office should have rightfully been reprimanded and should have been enjoined into further investigation and possible disbarment.

I doubt that any of the January 6th defendants would have received similar treatment by the U.S. Attorneys office.

[Liz]

The U.S. Atty’s office should have been
<><>severely reprimanded
<><>enjoined from further investigation
<><>and considered for possible disbarment.

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No question......but this concerned “daddy’s boy” Hunter.....not, as you pointed out,
innocent J6 defendants who received harsh unjust treatment by the U.S. Attorney.

[metmom]

We all know about the double tiered system of (in)justice in this country.

[gunnut]

He is still the Us Attorney for Delaware. Just because he has a second title of independent counsel does not negate the fact he is a duly appointed and confirmed us attorney.

[taxcontrol]

Agree 100%