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Hunter Comes Up A Donut Short of a Defense in Delaware

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the conviction of Hunter Biden in Delaware and how his nullification strategy may have backfired. Here is the column: The conviction of Hunter Biden on all of the federal gun counts created a surprising new precedent in Delaware … for Hunter Biden. It is, again, an open-and-shut case.

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Rahimi and the Second Amendment: How The Supreme Court Intercepts Hunter Biden’s Hail Mary Pass

JonathanTurley

The hope for a final pass to the Court ended with an 8-1 decision against the challenge to the federal gun law. ” For Hunter, the pass to the Supreme Court roughly 50 years later just missed in equally spectacular fashion. .” Below is my column on Fox.com on the ruling in United States v. for that period.

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Did the Defense Make Prison More Likely for Hunter Under the Sentencing Guidelines?

JonathanTurley

It is also important to note that, after the Supreme Court’s ruling in United States v. By pursuing the nullification strategy, Hunter lost that benefit and now would have to belatedly accept responsibility just before sentencing after putting the court and public through a trial. Booker , sentencing guidelines are discretionary.

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Path To Well-Being In Law: Episode 19 – Matt Thiese

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I think it came about with the Utah Supreme Court’s lawyer well-being task force and made a recommendation that there needed to be a study of their lawyers in their state to see what is sort of the condition of their well-being. Just external pressure from clients and then inflexible court deadlines. BREE: Yeah. Absolutely.

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DOJ: Hunter Deal on Gun Charge is Dead

JonathanTurley

That is the problem when your counsel tells the prosecutor in open court to “just rip up” the plea deal. Bray, the Chief United States Probation Officer for the District of Delaware, never signed off on the agreement. The Justice Department just declared, however, that it is dead as Dillinger.

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Word to the Weiss: Why the Delaware U.S. Attorney is Still Calling People Before a Grand Jury on Hunter Biden

JonathanTurley

attorney for the District of Delaware, continues to call people before a federal grand jury to testify on Hunter Biden. A court finally forced Hunter to support his child. despite many of us writing for years that what he did was very wrong indeed. Yet, it is becoming increasing hard to spin out of this scandal as David Weiss, the U.S.

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Is Hunter Biden Pursuing a Jury Nullification Strategy?

JonathanTurley

Lowell then suggested in court that someone else may have checked the box on the form. While Hunter could always throw in the towel before the start of testimony, there is currently no discernible strategy beyond hoping that a pending case in the Supreme Court might undermine the indictment.