{"id":157205,"date":"2024-05-30T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=157205"},"modified":"2024-05-28T18:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T22:55:25","slug":"hunter-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=157205","title":{"rendered":"Hunter update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We all know Hunter Biden’s story – poor little guy was singled out for prosecution, just because he was Joey Biden’s son (and neither was killed by a drunk driver, nor heroically killed in Medal of Honor-worthy combat in Iraq. Or Iran, or Rehobeth Beach, wherever Joe misremembers today.)<\/p>\n

As I recall, Hunter’s trial was over the unfortunate coincidence of filing a form 4473 declaring himself a non-drug-user at the same time his autobiography told of him wallowing in drugs and sniffing the first base line at Yankees Stadium – in his defense, Delaware, like most states, does not have a professional baseball team, not even an American league team, so his confusion over that long white line is somewhat excusable. In one sense, though, his is an unusual case – he lied on a 4473 and actually got prosecuted. Better buy lottery tickets if you are hitting those kind of odds.<\/p>\n

But his defense team did try an amusing tactic – they tried to get his prosecution dropped because his three felony counts infringed on his Second Amendment rights. Uh, no.<\/p>\n

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Biden\u2019s defense attorneys wrote in court filings that the recent Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen protected the first son from being prosecuted for allegedly lying on a federal form about his drug use to purchase a revolver in 2018.<\/p>\n

Judge Maryellen Noreika, a Trump appointee, denied Biden’s initial request. She said the charges on their face were compatible with Bruen, a ruling that relaxed some gun regulations in New York two years ago.<\/p>\n

The first son previously asked the district court to dismiss his charges for three other reasons, including that the prosecution was, according to Biden, the result of a Republican pressure campaign and therefore “selective and vindictive.” Noreika denied all three requests, and the appellate court affirmed her denials, once again saying the requests were premature.<\/p>\n

Biden’s attorneys also asked this month for the trial to be postponed in part because they were struggling with securing expert witnesses, but Noreika also denied that request.\u00a0 Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Struggling in securing expert witnesses… I know Whitney Houston and Hunter Thompson are dead, but you would think Keith Richards could be available.<\/p>\n

On a more serious note, as predicted earlier, various spurious defenses have cropped up based on the Supreme’s Bruen<\/em> decision – expect it to become more problematic as lawyers try to manipulate the ‘historic’ phrase further.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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