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The Department of Justice and the Attorney General of Delaware have announced indictments totaling 35 counts against four people in connection with a series of crimes including carjackings, a kidnapping, a rape, and theft that occurred as part of a crime spree in April. ”
In a hearing Wednesday, a US federal judge in Delaware rejected a plea deal by Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden. However, under the plea agreement, federal prosecutors suggested that the court sentence Biden to probation. The second agreement is what is referred to as a diversion agreement.
The new charges join the two previous charges filed against him in a federal court in Delaware. Biden now faces 11 charges in total—three felonies and eight misdemeanors. Weiss previously served as US Attorney for the District of Delaware and has been involved in investigations related to Biden’s case since 2019.
Since the Supreme Court struck down New York’s longstanding gun law, lower courts have ruled heavily against restricting guns, reports Jacob Gershman in the Wall Street Journal. . Circuit Court of Appeals. The June 23 ruling in N ew York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. The case is pending before the Fifth U.S.
Judge Mark Scarsi of the US District Court for the Central District of California accepted Biden’s open guilty plea to nine counts, including felony tax evasion. The plea comes three months after Biden was convicted on federal gun charges in Delaware, with sentencing in that case set for November.
Delaware's Chancery Court has added another magistrate to help move its caseload, this time bringing on a longtime state Department of Justice worker who formerly headed the department's felony trial unit and was also previously its chief legal ethics officer.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided that the 65-year prison sentence given to a former nursing home aide who stole personal items from residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities should stand, Dan Trevas reports for Court News Ohio.
It collapsed in court when the judge asked the prosecutor if he had ever seen such a deal offered to any other defendant. This burning train then continued down the track to California where the team insisted that it would make the same addiction defense that failed in Delaware. He admitted that he had not.
Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.
Actions of note at yesterday’s Supreme Court conference — the first one since April that was not a double conference — included: Supreme Court allows commutation of three-strikes sentence; action on long-pending clemency request deferred. The court denied review in Valley Baptist Church v. City of San Rafael. 5th 135.
The Department of Justice caused an outcry this weekend when it filed a notice to a federal court on a Saturday that it should move ahead and order the jailing of Hunter Biden’s former business associate and fried, Devon Archer. The letters seem to be speaking to Congress, the public, and, of course, Archer rather than the court itself.
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.
.” The filing (below) shows how Hunter’s claims (repeated by many in the media) collapse under even cursory review in court. It is the difference between making a case in the court of public opinion and making a case in an actual court of law. ” The rest of the filing is equally devastating.
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. .” The Court found the federal statutes imposing a reasonable temporary limitation on this right.
The Justice Department was never going over the cliff because they had nothing to gain or lose in open-and-shut cases in Delaware and California. The deal then collapsed in open court when a judge balked at a provision that would give Hunter sweeping immunity for any crime. They did and Weiss was forced to actually prosecute Hunter.
Hunter Biden’s trial in US District Court in Delaware begins days after former US President Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree in his New York hush money criminal trial. Both cases are historic.
At its conference yesterday, a double one, the Supreme Court ruled on a robust 164 matters. The court granted review in EpicentRx, Inc. ” The Supreme Court has a similar forum selection case under review — Gerro v. The Supreme Court denied review in Brooks. Actions of note included: Forum selection.
A Supreme Court decision Thursday upending a century-old New York State gun licensing restriction has been called a major blow to state gun control interventions across the country. The Court released its opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association (NYSRPA) v. It’s reprehensible.
A court will now have to decide whether this child can call herself a Biden and whether her father can reduce his level of financial support. Here is the column: This week, Hunter Biden’s defense team traveled to Delaware seeking an update on the federal criminal investigation that has dragged on for almost five years.
Here is the column: Hunter Biden returned to court today on the felony indictment for his possession of a handgun, including allegations that he lied on an Oct.12, Notably, House Republicans say, he received two wire transfers totaling $260,000 that listed President Biden’s Delaware home as the beneficiary address for the funds.
YouTube Screenshot Below is my column in The Messenger on what I called Biden’s “break-the-glass” option after the disaster in Delaware. District Court for the District of Delaware. The debacle in Delaware still could result in a plea deal. Jean-Pierre cut him off and responded unequivocally “no.”
They even threw in a phantom felony allegation that will evaporate once Hunter completes a diversion program. After all, the 4-year-old just got her clock cleaned in court. The diversion program is particularly insulting to the intelligence of the American people. It takes a true Biden to do that. Not a Navy, of course.
The appointment of Delaware U.S. It is the same Weiss who did not indict on major tax felonies and cut a plea deal that brushed aside a felony gun charge. No court could seriously question the right and duty of Congress to get to the bottom of corruption allegations against the president without delay.
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