Posted on 07/28/2023 8:01:47 AM PDT by george76
George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley persuasively argued the Biden Justice Department was being too cute by half when prosecutors crafted a very lenient plea deal for Hunter Biden.
But the judge overseeing the case would not let the deceptive gamesmanship stand.
Biden was expected to plead guilty .. to two misdemeanor tax evasion charges and one illegal gun possession charge and likely do little or no jail time.
The deal appeared to come together quickly in June as the GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee’s hearings into Biden’s overseas business dealings continued to heat up.
However, the deal fell through when U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika called into question the blanket immunity from future prosecution that Biden’s attorneys believed the agreement involved.
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Under questioning from the judge, federal prosecutors denied the agreement offered immunity from future prosecution.
Biden then withdrew from the plea deal and pleaded not guilty to the crimes.
“The problem with cutting a sweetheart deal is that you can’t put everything into the deal that is really on your mind,” Turley ...
“This is really a case of the Department of Justice being hoisted on its own petard, because the Justice Department needs to say that there’s an ongoing investigation to stop giving information, holding back witnesses to Congress. They need that element,”
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they’re trying to have it both ways: protect Biden from future criminal charges from past overseas business deals and protect the Biden family from damaging information coming out through Congress.
Noreika wouldn’t let it fly.
“And so this is really a problem of the DOJ’s making,” Turley said. “They want to cap off this case and end it, but they also want to pretend that it’s ongoing. And you can’t have that ambiguity with a federal judge.”
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
The ONLY REASON the prosecutors are saying that there is still an investigation is so they won't have to answer any questions. Then when the judge pointed out that if there are more cases there isn't a deal, the prosecutors said there are no more potential charges.
The DOJ got hoist by its own petard.
See: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4170643/posts?page=32#32
Actually, I made my post at 2:22pm, and Turley was interviewed 2 hours before that.
So, all I can say is great minds think aloke!
Actually my post was 12:22, and Turley was interviewed 10 minutes AFTER that.
If Turley reads FR, great!!
So much to learn here. A lot of viewpoints from a wide variety of people around the world.
BTTT
Turley must have read my post from yesterday...
“The Prosecutors were between a rock and a hard place....They could not admit that there were not additional on going investigations as that would open the door for unprotected questioning and investigation by the House Select Committee on a whole host of other matters and they couldn’t admit to the plea deal that was actually agreed upon with a wink and a nod because the judge would not allow it and it would make them appear as corrupt as they actually are.
A real self created Catch-22.”
Garland needs to recuse himself from all GOVERNMENT JOBS. Especially now that they are trying to push “ethics” and “values” back into politics sometime in the future.
The Hunter plea deal presented for the court’s consideration was so meager that it did not even reach the level of a ‘limited hangout.’
A “limited hangout” is a public relations technique in which a perp who wants to cover up a major crime will admit to a very small portion of the crime in order to claim that the issue has been put to rest.
Nonprofit org Marco Polo put emails from Hunter’s laptop online
and submitted a 630-page report summarizing its infamous contents.
<><>MP famously said that judges are not obligated to accept plea deals
even if prosecutors and the defendant agree on them.
<><>that the plea deal, if accepted, makes a mockery of the phrase ‘slap on the wrist,’
<><>it will also send a sobering message that nepotism and proximity to political power determines outcomes in our criminal justice system.
MP found evidence for, at the very least, 459 violations of
state and federal laws and regulations on Hunter’s device as follows:
<><>140 business-related crimes,
<><>191 sex-related crimes,
<><>128 drug-related crimes.
These instances of criminal wrongdoing are supported by primary source evidence: emails, photos, videos, text messages, audio files, et al.
“A real self created Catch-22.””
Caught... in their own web of lies, deceit and corruption, IOW. Too bad most Americans will never hear or know about it.
With immunity there is no way Hunter could be forced to provide testimony or evidence against Joe.
Lying to judges: It’s Page 3 of the dem playbook.
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