Posted on 06/06/2024 11:01:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Thursday he was shocked by how quickly Hunter Biden’s various defenses in his gun trial have “collapsed.”
Biden’s trial began Monday and he is confronting three federal gun charges brought by Special Counsel David Weiss in September, which include providing false statements and knowingly possessing a gun while being addicted to drugs. Turley asserted on “America’s Newsroom” that the prosecution effectively countered Biden attorney Abbe Lowell’s argument that his client’s laptop, which is a key piece of evidence in the trial, is not fully authentic as well as the argument that Biden was not using drugs when he signed paperwork to purchase a gun.
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“The prosecution is doing an amazingly good job in my view,” Turley said. “This is a very disciplined case. What’s really astonishing is how fast all of the defenses put forward by Abbe Lowell collapsed within 48 hours. There was a long argument that the laptop was tampered with. They put on an agent saying there’s no tampering here. This is real and authentic. They said that Hunter Biden wasn’t doing drugs when he signed that. They have a text of him the next day trying to score drugs from a guy named Mookie, and a day after that, doing drugs on the hood of a car, according to a text.”
Corporate media, Big Tech, former intelligence officials and then-candidate Joe Biden cast doubt on the laptop’s authenticity in October of 2020, but now prosecutors are using it as important evidence during the trial.
“And all these other witnesses saying ‘of course he was an addict, he was doing crack every 20 minutes when I knew him.’ They then said well, ‘maybe someone else filled out the form.’ You had Mr. Cleveland say ‘I watched him fill out the form. I told him to take his time.’ So every one of these defenses collapsed shortly after they were stated by the defense. And that leads to this question of why, why isn’t he just pleading guilty? This is an open and shut case,” Turley added.
“It’s obvious he was doing drugs and that he had signed the form falsely,” he continued. “That might keep him out of jail. It certainly would have avoided an embarrassing trial. The answer is, this is Biden town. This is a Biden who is standing trial in his hometown and this is the opposite of Manhattan. Here the jury pool could not be better for the defendant. I think the defense is using a nullification strategy.”
Prosecutors obtained messages and material from Biden’s abandoned laptop, which is now considered real despite the previous assertions before the 2020 election, showing it to the jury as evidence of the defendant’s drug use around the period of purchasing the gun in 2018, according to CNN. Criminal defense attorney Bernarda Villalona suggested Biden plead guilty on Monday, asserting Weiss’ evidence against him is “strong” and that it may be his “best” course of action to evade incarceration.
Biden also faces nine federal tax charges, including tax evasion and tax fraud for tax years 2016 through 2019, according to the indictment against him. The president’s son’s attorneys appealed the case, but Judge Mark Scarsi denied it, with the trial slated to start on June 20.
Turley seems to be ‘shocked’ over lots of things. Methinks the good professor is a bit naive.
Money can also do the trick. I know of a major gambling case in Tallahassee decades ago in which the state court jury stunned almost everyone by acquitting the defendants on all charges. The jury was bribed.
The case made the career of the defense attorney, and the son of one of the defendants became a lawyer and then a judge.
“Says Turley, who has been wrong about everything every time.”
What kind of drugs are you on???? Turley has historically been dead on the vast majority of the time. Much better than Andrew McCarthy as a rule.
Turley thinks he’s using a nullification strategy. HAHAHAHA. Ya think? All that matters in this trial is he’s Hunter Biden, his father is Jospeh Robinette Biden, and these laws do not apply.
It’s just as well. When Hunter gets acquitted, it will be even better for Trump than if Hunter had been convicted. Everyone dislikes Hunter Biden, even Democrats.
If found guilty, Hunter gets pardoned after the election — win, lose, or draw. Doing it during the holiday season gets the story buried.
I don't believe 12 jurors will find him guilty. There will be at least one Democrat on that jury.
Could get jury nullification. All fact point to guilty but for some reason other than facts the jury finds him not guilty. Judge can intervene.
I’m talking about the fact that his legal opinions, while very solid in the pre-Trump world, are worthless in the new paradigm of Soviet show trials.
Show me a Biden and I’ll show you a criminal appears to be a fact of the day.
At least half the jury is black, and you have the head of the NAACP hugging Hunter in the lobby of the courthouse and telling him that the black community is with him. Plus, a number of the jurors have family members with addiction problems, making them sympathetic to Hunter.
Of all Hunter Biden’s crimes, this is the one that should not be prosecuted. I don’t think the second amendment allows Biden to be prohibited from owning a gun.
He’s not a violent criminal. Just a pathetic, dishonest, white collar criminal.
DADDY IS SCUM & “HUNTER IS THE SMARTEST MAN HE KNOWS”.
SCREWING YOUR NIECE ISN’T VIOLENT????
I’ll bet $1.
he gets on the stand and Says “My Word as a Biden, I did not do this, No Joke!”
Aquitted.
But none of us will be shocked by how quickly Hunter is acquitted.
I got dibs on 1:30 after lunch. Jury gotta get that one last Free Lunch...................
Wasn’t there a lot more on the laptop than what is charged here? Didn’t Rudy Guliani offer it to the FBI? Wasn’t there under evidence of age sex on there? I recall Rudy talking about it on the radio. He had the laptop right there as the FBI was ransacking his office. He described the evidence and they ignored him. Seems to me this prosecution is starting to make sense. They left out the real bad stuff and they’ll probably under sentence him on what they did charge.
“If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.”
― George Orwell, 1984
... does anyone here believe Hunter will *not* be acquitted?
Joe is on record saying he won’t pardon - but did he say he wouldn’t commute his sentence? Joe has to keep a lid on Hunter who knows all the dirt Joe is knee-deep in. somehow this will be fixed - jury nullification, commutation, somehow some way
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