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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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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. Some of those crimes were allowed to expire under the statute of limitations.

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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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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. The cases from injuries last year are just now being filed under the statute of limitations, but it has been another bumper crop of Thanksgiving torts. Some things are happily left out of the courts.

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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. At another, he adopted an argument of the National Rifle Association challenging the underlying statute. Unlike Donald Trump in Manhattan, Delaware is Biden country. In the interim, Lowell has brought a litany of challenges.

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“Shoeless Joe” and the Fixing of the Biden Scandal

JonathanTurley

The appointment of Delaware U.S. It is also the same Weiss who reportedly allowed the statute of limitations to run out on Hunter’s major tax offenses, even though he had the option to extend it. This is not a case of history repeating itself. Impeachment can work as constitutional Kryptonite.

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