h/t nauti nurse for post upthread great summation about what’s happening
NY TImes:
Judge Noreika quickly punctured that assertion when she asked a prosecutor,
Leo Wise, if the Biden investigation was “ongoing.” He replied “yes,” adding
that if Biden’s team thought otherwise, “then there’s no deal.”
From the start, the judge seemed highly skeptical of the unusual deal — which
offered Hunter Biden broad immunity from prosecution in perpetuity,
questioning why it had been filed under a provision that gave her no legal
authority to reject it. When she asked Leo Wise, a prosecutor, if there was any
precedent for the kind of deal being proposed, he replied, “No, your honor.”
US District Judge Maryellen Noreika called the deal federal prosecutors
reached with Hunter Biden for his gun possession offense “unusual.”She said the deal — in which Biden would enter the diversion program to
resolve the charge — contains some "non-standard terms," such as "broad
immunity" from other potential charges."We don't usually make diversion agreements public," the judge said, referring
to the move by the parties to make that aspect of their agreement public and
discuss it in open court.