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The facts are simple, the law is clear, and the evidence of guilt is simply overwhelming.
The only surprise was that it took a jury more than five minutes in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, to find Hunter Biden guilty of all three firearms-related charges. In sports terms, the case was a complete victory.
It didn’t matter that Hunter is the son of the president of the United States, that First Lady Jill Biden had been in the courtroom from day one, or that the defendant was being defended by one of America’s leading trial lawyers.
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In the end, there was no room for defense. But Hunter’s lawyers did not give up on their defense. The brilliant lawyer, Abe Lowell, used every trick and feint to create a reasonable doubt. He analyzed the meaning of words (past and present tense) like a teacher teaching irregular verb conjugation.
The main defense was an attack of almost comical credulity: Hunter was a typical drug addict, so addicted to drugs that he was convinced he wasn’t. Deliberately He lied when he signed federal forms confirming he was not an “unlawful user of, or addict to” illegal drugs.
Do you understand? Internal denial is an external excuse for criminal behavior.
This astonishing argument led Lowell to literally claim that his client was not “conscious or aware” – as if someone would buy a murder weapon while driving his father’s Cadillac.
Doesn’t it make you feel warm, cozy and safe?
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Not only did Hunter blatantly lie about his drug addiction, but he was also charged with illegally possessing a firearm while under the influence of drugs, a felony that Lowell blithely dismissed, telling jurors there were no witnesses, photos or videos that Hunter was actually using drugs during the 11 days in October 2018 before Hunter’s .38-caliber Colt revolver was dumped in the trash by one of his many girlfriends, the widow of his late brother.
Admittedly, the lack of photographs is surprising, given Hunter’s penchant for taking selfies while snorting cocaine. Sure, there is one infamous photo in his infamous laptop with a cocaine pipe hanging from his mouth, taken just four days before he bought the gun. But wait… that was staged, the defense argued, and no other such visual evidence emerged during the relevant 11-day period.
That’s true, but there have been several accusatory messages sent to suspected drug dealers. in front He bought a gun and that day rearThese messages coincide with times when Hunter withdrew large amounts of cash from ATMs and organized trysts at 7-Elevens, believed to be his favorite drug dealing spot — adding a whole new dimension to the term “convenience store.”
Hunter’s real defense was a two-fold strategy not found anywhere in the law books but sometimes used as a last resort, desperate tactic: sympathy for recovering drug addicts and persuading the jury to acquit.
But Lowell skillfully fudged that part of the story, leaving jurors to wonder whether his client was wasting thousands of dollars on splurges on pina colada Slurpees at his favorite haunts.
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A repeated defense argument in closing arguments was that Hunter did not appear to be under the influence of drugs on the day he purchased the gun. On cross-examination, the seller testified that Hunter showed no signs of being under the influence of drugs.
There are two problems with that clever ploy.
First, witnesses testified that Hunter had an uncanny ability to function normally even after smoking large amounts of crack. Second, that’s largely irrelevant: Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika ruled that the prosecution only needed to prove illegal drug use in the period before and after the gun was purchased, not just on the day it was acquired.
Still, the defense continued to warn that the prosecution was “trying to deceive” the jury with its legal theory of the case, which Lowell called a “magician’s trick” that relied on “doubt and speculation.” Lowell’s argument conveniently ignored his own subterfuge when his lawyers argued that Hunter invented a story of drug abuse to avoid seeing his mistress shortly after he bought the gun.
This must be one of the memorable events in the history of girlfriend avoidance.
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Smoke and mirrors aside, Hunter’s Genuine The defense is a two-fold strategy not found anywhere in the law books but sometimes used as a last resort, desperate tactic: sympathy for the recovering drug addict and an acquittal from the jury. The former is self-evident, the latter is much more subtle.
When Lowell pleaded with the jury, “It’s time to close this case,” what he was really telling them was to ignore the facts, ignore the law, and acquit his client. It is well known that jurors have no right to deny or override the law, but sometimes they do. Because jurors do not have to give reasons for their “not guilty” verdict, they can do as they like. If they like the defendant or dislike the law, they can acquit the defendant.
In response, the prosecution set the record straight in their closing arguments. Despite the defense’s attempts to portray it that way, they reminded the jury that Hunter Biden was not charged with being a drug addict. He was charged with lying on a federal firearms application and illegally possessing a firearm. That was a choice, not a condition. Hunter knowingly chose to lie and break the law.
As the trial progressed, jurors could not help but take note of Jill Biden and the rest of the Biden family, who sat just behind the defendant. The family reunion was a visual reminder to the judges that they lived on Biden estate. Would they have the audacity to convict one of their own in front of the great matriarch and her children?
In a heartbreaking moment, prosecutor Leo Wise fired back at this apparent attempt to unfairly influence the jury. He gestured in the direction of the family and calmly explained: “The people sitting in the gallery are not evidence. You may know them from the news, but with all due respect, that doesn’t matter.” Indeed, it didn’t matter.
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Wise then repeated a commonly used legal phrase cited by President Biden a week before a New York jury returned a starkly different verdict in the trial of former President Donald Trump: “No one is above the law.”
After all, even the privileged and spoiled Biden must abide by the rule of law.
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