Judge officially drops Hunter Biden's federal gun case after pardon
Source: Scripps News
Posted 1 hour and 22 minutes ago and last updated 1 hour and 11 minutes ago
All future proceedings in Hunter Biden's federal gun case have been terminated.
District Judge Maryellen Noreika issued the order on Tuesday less than 48 hours after President Joe Biden announced he was pardoning his son.
Hunter Biden was found guilty in June of three felony counts related to lying about his illicit drug use on forms required to purchase a gun. He was scheduled to be sentenced this month. It was supposed to be a culmination of years of investigations that prosecutors said were bolstered by Hunter Bidens book, Beautiful Things: A Memoir. In the book, the presidents son admits to using drugs around the time he bought the gun.
Prosecutors argued that Biden knowingly lied about his drug use on federal gun-purchase forms in 2018. Biden's defense team unsuccessfully tried to convince the jury that the president's son was not actively using at the time of the purchase. After issuing the pardon, President Biden criticized prosecutors for bringing the case in the first place.
Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/crime/judge-officially-drops-hunter-bidens-federal-gun-case-after-pardon
Prairie Gates
(3,622 posts)MichMan
(13,679 posts)johnnyfins
(1,517 posts)Tear them apart and create a piece of art with the parts.
MuirWoods
(19 posts)Promoting violence is not the answer.
JoseBalow
(5,837 posts)The Grand Illuminist
(1,711 posts)Last edited Wed Dec 4, 2024, 06:29 PM - Edit history (1)
And all civil and peaceful messure are not working and/or used up, the last resort may have to be used whether anyone likes it or not. And we're very close to such hopelessness. That is how bad it is. One does not have to endorse (rightly so though) nor condone when it might come down to it.
calimary
(84,777 posts)Yeah, itd take 50 of em off the streets, but the manufacturers and middlemen wouldnt care, and DEFINITELY wouldnt get the message. Unfortunately, all theyd get is more money in their pockets and orders for more to replace what was purchased.
The Grand Illuminist
(1,711 posts)nt
kairos12
(13,346 posts)I hope it causes many MAGATS to go into Vapor Lock.
MissouriDem47
(60 posts)worked for Manafort, Stone and Bannon so it's good to see that it also worked for Biden
BumRushDaShow
(144,921 posts)the OTHER guy missing in your list -
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-pardons-jared-kushners-father-paul-manafort-roger-stone-23-others-1557092
Google has conveniently and intentionally attempted to wipe many of the news search results for that 2020 pardon and the current reporting glosses over the "pardoned" part of the description of Charles Kushner's nomination for Ambassador to France, as if the word "pardoned" was the equivalent of saying the "business-dressed" Kushner.
boonecreek
(315 posts)She was the one that blew up the plea deal.
Since we know Trump was pulling strings in
the House, one has to wonder if he had a
hand in that.
Comfortably_Numb
(4,123 posts)BumRushDaShow
(144,921 posts)Clouds Passing
(2,997 posts)markodochartaigh
(2,221 posts)millions of Americans who also use any drug, including marijuana, and who bought a gun, and lied on the federal gun purchase form? Are those millions going to be pardoned too?
Oh, wait, that isn't something that is prosecuted. Nevermind.
ShazzieB
(19,017 posts)I am delighted to hear this!
The Mouth
(3,311 posts)prosecuted for lying on the 4473 weren't the President's son, so fuck those gun humpers.
"It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, no"
Some animals are more equal than others, just like all the politicians who vote to make it harder for a non criminal citizen to own a gun, but have one (or security) themselves.
To be clear, I don't care that he was pardoned, I don't think that *ANY* non convicted felon should have to even fill out the damned form.
calimary
(84,777 posts)Good-GOOD-GOOD!!!
Even better that theres nothing left that trump can use to torment him (at least as I understand it).
DOUBLE AND TRIPLE Good-GOOD-GOOD!!!
travelingthrulife
(1,064 posts)Hunter's gun charges.