Hunter Biden’s criminal trial begins in aftermath of Trump conviction

- The criminal trial of Hunter Biden kicked off on June 3 in federal court in Delaware as President Joe Biden’s son faces gun charges in a historic case that begins four days after Donald Trump became the first former US president to be convicted.the first trial of the child of a sitting president,

“Jill and I love our son and we are so proud of the man he is today,” Mr Joe Biden said in a statement, adding that a lot of families have loved ones who have overcome addiction.in state court in New York on May 30 of 34 felony counts of falsifying documents to cover up hush money paid to a porn star to avoid a sex scandal shortly before the 2016 US election that put him in the White House. Trump is the Republican candidate challenging Mr Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the Nov 5 US election.

If convicted on all charges in the Delaware case, Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in prison, though defendants generally receive shorter sentences, according to the US Justice Department. The case is expected to centre on Hunter Biden’s years-long crack cocaine use and addiction, which he has discussed publicly and which was a prominent part of his 2021 autobiography Beautiful Things. He told Judge Noreika at a hearing in 2023 that he has been sober since the middle of 2019.

A plea agreement that would have resolved the gun and tax charges without prison time collapsed last year after Judge Noreika questioned the extent of the immunity it extended to Biden. Hunter Biden’s lawyers blamed Republican pressure for the failure of the plea agreement.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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