A Delaware jury on Tuesday found Hunter Biden guilty on all three firearms-related charges after just a few hours of deliberation.
The historic sentence against the president’s son reflects a big gamble by Hunter by going ahead with trial in the summer of 2023 instead of accepting a revised plea deal offered to him.
Hunter face He faces up to 25 years in prison and a $750,000 fine, according to court documents.
In the federal system, there is typically a two- to three-month window between guilty plea and sentencing. “It remains to be seen what the sentencing guidelines will be if he is convicted on all charges,” he said, according to NBC News. report“But one legal expert said he was likely to face around a year in prison.”
Hunter’s gun trial judge, Maryellen Noreika, recently sentenced a defendant in a similar gun case to one year in prison. The defense had asked for a six-month sentence, but Noreika said Gave I dated him for a year.
The government charged Hunter with one count of making a false statement concerning the purchase of a firearm, one count of possession of a firearm by an unlawful user or addict of a controlled substance, and one count of making a false statement concerning information required to be kept by a federally licensed firearms dealer.
Hunter was using crack cocaine when he bought the gun in 2018, according to photos from his abandoned laptop. The gun was found discarded in a public trash bin next to the school. The Secret Service is said to have been involved in the investigation.
The prosecution called 10 witnesses, but the defense called only one, Naomi Biden Neal, whose testimony backfired and made Hunter look “wayward” to the jury, according to a court reporter.
Legal experts warned last week that Hunter’s defense was likely hoping for a jury acquittal, which occurs when jurors ignore their oath and find a defendant innocent even though the defendant has been proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
The defense primarily sought to portray Hunter as a victim of substance abuse, and defense attorney Abe Lowell argued that the prosecution must prove that Hunter “intentionally” committed a gun crime.
The government’s argument was based on the idea that “no one is above the law” and that “it doesn’t matter who you are or what your name is.” Hunter “chose to possess a firearm illegally” and “we’re here because he chose to lie,” the prosecutors argued.
“All of this is not evidence,” prosecutor Leo Wise said Monday, gesturing across the courtroom to the Biden family watching closing arguments. “The people sitting in the gallery are not evidence.”
In 2023, Hunter refused to accept a plea deal from prosecutors after negotiations broke down under judicial review of a “diversion agreement.”
The original “Sweetheart” plea bargain Gave Hunter pleaded guilty to failing to pay taxes on more than $1.5 million in income in 2017 and 2018 and was given the option of probation rather than prison. In addition, special prosecutor David Weiss devised another diversion agreement that would grant Hunter immunity from potential future charges, including: wipe Felony firearm violations were removed from his record.
Judge Weiss then indicted Hunter on tax evasion charges in California, with a trial scheduled for September.
This incident United States v. Hunter Biden, Case No. 24-1703 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Wendell Fsebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former Republican War Room analyst. The Politics of Slave MoralityFollow Wendell “Bat” @WendellHusebø or The truth of society @WendellHusebo.
