Attorneys for the president’s son presented in court more than a half dozen motions to get the tax case dismissed.
Hunter Biden arrives Dec. 13, 2023, with his attorney Abbe Lowell to give a statement to media outlets outside of the U.S. Capitol in Washington regarding the House Oversight Committee investigation into his business interests. If U.S. District Court judge Mark Scarsi rejects the more than half-dozen dismissal requests and Biden does not strike a deal with prosecutors,— right in the middle of President Biden’s reelection campaign.
The judge asked Lowell if he could bolster his claims with any evidence beyond the timeline of the plea deal falling apart around the same time that Republicans ratcheted up their inquiries into the Hunter Biden investigation, and then prosecutors brought charges.Prosecutor Leo Wise said the government was not bound to the charges within the plea agreement once it collapsed and that it is standard for prosecutors to change course as they build their cases.
Some of the dismissal motions have echoes of those former president Donald Trump made — unsuccessfully so far — in his effort to get two federal cases against him dismissed. Trump has also made claims of vindictive prosecution. One of Biden’s motions said the prosecutor who brought the charges, Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware, was not properly appointed as a special counsel, and argues that special counsels should come from outside the government.
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