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Attorneys for Hunter Biden re-submitted a movement requesting a brand new legal trial after the primary son was discovered responsible on all fees associated to his buy of a firearm in 2018.
Biden’s protection lawyer Abbe Lowell filed the movement Monday, arguing the federal court docket in Delaware lacked jurisdiction to go to trial earlier this month. The movement comes one week after Lowell filed an analogous movement, however shortly withdrew it with out rationalization.
Biden was discovered responsible on June 11 of mendacity about his drug use when buying a firearm in 2018. Particularly, he was discovered responsible on three fees: making a false assertion within the buy of a gun, making a false assertion associated to data required to be saved by a federally licensed gun vendor, and possession of a gun by an individual who’s an illegal person of or hooked on a managed substance.
Biden had pleaded not responsible within the case.
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Hunter Biden arrives to federal court docket together with his spouse, Melissa Cohen Biden, June 11, 2024, in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP Picture/Matt Rourke)
The case marked the primary time in U.S. historical past {that a} sitting president’s youngster was on trial.
Prosecutors labored to show that Biden lied on a federal firearm kind, often known as ATF Kind 4473, in October 2018, when he answered “No” when requested if he’s an illegal person of gear or hooked on managed substances.
Abbe Lowell, lawyer for Hunter Biden, arrives to the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Constructing on June 4, 2024, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)
Biden has a well-documented historical past of drug abuse, together with in his 2021 memoir “Stunning Issues,” which was repeatedly referenced by each prosecutors and Biden’s protection workforce throughout the seven-day trial this month. The memoir walks readers by way of Biden’s highs and lows with habit to crack cocaine and makes an attempt to get sober.
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Lowell didn’t dispute Biden’s lengthy historical past with substance abuse amid the trial, which additionally contains an habit to alcohol. The protection as an alternative argued that on the day Biden purchased the Cobra Colt .38, he didn’t contemplate himself an energetic drug addict, citing the primary son’s stint in rehab forward of the October 2018 buy.
An proof picture offered by the prosecution reveals the gun that Hunter Biden bought. (U.S. Authorities Exhibit)
Prosecutors, nonetheless, argued Biden was hooked on crack cocaine earlier than, throughout and after he purchased the handgun. Along with citing Biden’s memoir, the prosecution workforce additionally offered the jury with textual content messages Biden shared with household and obvious drug sellers to show his habit across the time interval he bought the firearm.
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Simply in the future after the gun buy, prosecutors confirmed the court docket that Biden texted Hallie Biden, his sister-in-law turned girlfriend, to say he was “ready for a vendor named Mookie.” A day after that textual content, he texted that he was “sleeping on a automotive smoking crack on 4th Road and Rodney” in Wilmington.
Hunter Biden’s case marked the primary time in U.S. historical past {that a} sitting president’s youngster was on trial. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photographs)
The jury took roughly three hours throughout two days to achieve the responsible verdict. The three fees carry a complete most jail time of 25 years. Biden, nonetheless, is a first-time offender, making it unlikely he’ll face the complete penalties.
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Hunter Biden, first girl Jill Biden and Hunter’s spouse, Melissa Cohen Biden, stroll out of federal court docket after listening to the decision on June 11, 2024, in Wilmington. (AP Picture/Matt Rourke)
He shall be sentenced later this yr, although no date has but been issued.
The movement for a brand new trial comes after The Disciplinary Counsel for Washington, D.C., filed a “discover of self-discipline” with the D.C. Court docket of Appeals final week that seeks to droop Biden’s regulation license within the district following the responsible verdict.
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The D.C. Bar’s web site nonetheless lists Robert Hunter Biden as being in “good standing” and “energetic” as of Monday afternoon. Biden earned a regulation diploma from Yale College in 1996 and beforehand labored for regulation agency Boies Schiller Flexner.
