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A Delaware jury on Tuesday found Hunter Biden guilty on all three gun charges after only several hours of deliberating.
The historic verdict of the president’s son reflects Hunter’s high stakes gamble to go to trial instead of accepting a revised plea deal proposed in the summer of 2023.There is typically a two to three month delay between conviction and sentencing in the federal system. “We don’t yet know what the sentencing guidelines would be if he’s convicted on all counts,” NBC NewsHunter’s gun trial judge, Maryellen Noreika, recently delivered a one-year sentence to a defendant in a similar gun case.
Hunter used crack when he purchased the firearm in 2018, according to a wide variety of photos from the time on his abandoned laptop, and the gun was found discarded in a public trash can next to a school. The Secret Service allegedly intervened in the investigation of that incident.ten witnesses to the stand, while the defense only brought one witness, Naomi Biden Neal. Her testimony appeared to backfire when she appeared to make Hunter look “erratic” to the jury, according to court reporters.
“All of this is not evidence,” prosecutor Leo Wise gestured around the courtroom at the Biden family watching closing arguments on Monday. “People sitting in the gallery are not evidence.” In 2023, Hunter refused to accept a plea deal from prosecutors after negotiations fell apart under judicial scrutiny of a “diversion agreement.”Hunter the option to plead guilty to not paying taxes on more than $1.5 million in income in 2017 and 2018, receiving probation rather than jail time.
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