JDCJJ
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Post by JDCJJ on Sept 5, 2024 11:35:54 GMT -6
Hunter Biden plans to plead guilty in $1.4M federal tax evasion trial Hunter Biden plans to plead guilty in his federal tax evasion trial — a bombshell decision his lawyers announced Thursday morning just before jury selection was about to kick off. “Mr. Biden intends to change his plea this morning,” Hunter’s lawyer Abbe Lowell told the judge in a Los Angeles federal courtroom. Lowell made the shock disclosure just 15 minutes after proceedings began, surprising prosecutors. “This is the first we’ve heard of this,” a lawyer responded from the prosecutors’ table, before Lowell made the announcement. Judge Mark Scarsi then told everyone to come back at 11 a.m. to proceed with the guilty plea. Jury selection had been scheduled to start Thursday morning before the surprise announcement. President Biden’s son, who arrived at court hand in hand with wife Melissa Cohen, was facing his second trial in just the span of a few months after he was convicted in June of illegally owning a gun while hooked on drugs. The younger Biden was facing the new trial on nine federal charges for allegedly failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes for the years 2016 through 2019. If convicted at the second trial, the 54-year-old Biden would have faced up to 17 years behind bars. The embattled first son also faces 25 years behind bars when he’s sentenced in the gun case in November. nypost.com/2024/09/05/us-news/hunter-biden-plans-to-plead-guilty-in-1-4m-federal-tax-evasion-trial/
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Post by Billy John Davy on Sept 5, 2024 11:51:50 GMT -6
this seems odd.
I read he is trying to enter a form of Alford plea where he pleads guilty but still claims innocence.
But DOJ rules prevent an Alford plea unless its approved by the very high ups.
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Post by stargatebabe on Sept 5, 2024 11:55:01 GMT -6
Anything to delay.........
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Post by Billy John Davy on Sept 5, 2024 13:11:16 GMT -6
drama in CA
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Post by captbudman on Sept 5, 2024 13:47:49 GMT -6
Interesting -- the update of your linked story is now saying that the Prosecution is telling the judge to reject the guilty plea. This seems to be a stunt by Hunter's legal team. Is it because the Biden Crime family doesn't want evidence of their crime public? No matter what he does, you know that Joe will pardon Hunter after November 6th...
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Post by Starbuck on Sept 7, 2024 11:59:51 GMT -6
Interesting -- the update of your linked story is now saying that the Prosecution is telling the judge to reject the guilty plea. This seems to be a stunt by Hunter's legal team. Is it because the Biden Crime family doesn't want evidence of their crime public? No matter what he does, you know that Joe will pardon Hunter after November 6th... You have this analyzed perfectly. Hunter took this course of action solely because his father and other family members would have been implicated by both testimony and evidence over the course of a trial. Obviously, "Don" Joe ordered him to do so and will issue a pardon in January.
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Post by megaman on Sept 7, 2024 17:16:45 GMT -6
I wonder if he'll get immunity for all his other tax evasion crimes he's not yet been charged with.
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Aesa
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Post by Aesa on Sept 7, 2024 18:30:21 GMT -6
I wonder if he'll get immunity for all his other tax evasion crimes he's not yet been charged with. He wonders too. Why do you think he wanted blanket immunity in his plea during the gun trial?
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