Hunter Biden's day in court in Batesville

[LiberalArkie]

Hunter Biden, the embattled son of President Joe Biden, appeared in person at the Independence County Courthouse on Monday for a hearing related to his Arkansas paternity case.

The child, known in court filings as Baby Doe, was born in 2018. The following year, Lunden Alexis Roberts filed a paternity claim alleging that Hunter Biden was the father of her child. A DNA test later confirmed it, Circuit Judge Holly Meyer ruled in January 2020. In March of that year, the parties agreed to a settlement, but last year Hunter Biden asked the court to adjust his child support payments, which reopened the case.

In a normal child-support case, the thought of dozens of reporters and citizens showing up to watch a hearing that was, essentially, a dispute over each side’s answers to certain discovery questions would be absurd. This case however involves Hunter Biden and that makes it anything but a “normal child-support case.”

That this case was not typical for Arkansas’s second-oldest municipality was evident from the moment one arrived at the Independence County Courthouse, where several onlookers watched as CNN and other media outlets set up vans and antennae and microphones. Photographers and videographers who were unable to find a good vantage point at the front of the building milled about on the sides of the courthouse, looking for an angle that might allow for a glimpse of the younger Biden. Meanwhile, behind the courthouse, police had the dilapidated gravel-and-asphalt parking lot roped off, forcing the small throng of people who hoped to get a glimpse of the defendant to remain on the sidewalk.

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https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/05/01/hunter-bidens-day-in-court-in-batesville

[2naSalit]

1. He's a private citizen.