Law 360

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

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.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

.” Recent rulings in lower courts across the country have mirrored Thomas’s guidance to stay consistent with how states have historically regulated gun ownership, striking down gun restrictions involving young adults, people facing felony charges, and makers of homemade guns.

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Law 360

APRIL 7, 2023

A bankruptcy trustee for Insys Therapeutics has urged a Delaware judge to order imprisoned former company CEO John Kapoor to return nearly $6 million paid by Insys for his felony racketeering defense, arguing that Kapoor wrongly claimed that some cash went to dropped actions or civil matters.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Susan Gwynne received an extensive prison term after a Delaware County trial court imposed consecutive sentences, ranging from six months to three years, on 46 theft-related charges. In 2016, she was charged with 86 felony counts and several misdemeanors and agreed to plead guilty to reduced charges.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

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. Weiss allowed major felonies to expire for now explicable reasons and refused to indict Biden for being an unregistered foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2023

The gun charge looks like a serious threat for incarceration, but it is little more than a phantom felony count under which Hunter will be allowed to go into a diversion program and ultimately negate the violation. He will plead to a couple of misdemeanors on tax violations without addressing how he actually made this money.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

Similarly, In 11 states — including Arkansas, Delaware, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas — ineligibility for jury service is permanent without a pardon. On a more broad spectrum, a pardon may be necessary to enable anyone to run for elected office, or simply secure a professional or business license.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Tyrance McCall, a Florida resident, filed suit in Georgia against Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in Ohio, after a 2016 accident in Florida resulted from the alleged failure of a tire that Cooper manufactured in Arkansas.

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At the Lectern

JUNE 17, 2021

In a 2-1 unpublished opinion, the Fourth District, Division Two, held sufficient evidence supported the finding that, for sentence enhancement purposes, a prior conviction was for a serious felony. Asylum Entertainment Delaware, LLC , and in Annie G. Aguayo (see here and here ). The court off-loaded three grant-and-holds. 5th 204.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 31, 2023

After the debacle in Delaware where the Justice Department seemed entirely confused on its own filings, the letters only reaffirmed the image of a department adrift in this expanding scandal. The optics could not be worse and many took the letter as an effort to intimate Archer.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2024

Given the calculation for the three felonies, the defense had to know that they were increasing the chances of prison time by pursuing a nullification defense. The hope was that Wilmington is Bidentown and no local jury would convict the son of the favorite son of Delaware. It didn’t work out that way.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2024

The filing begins by outright accusing Hunter Biden and his counsel of lying to the court about what occurred after the earlier plea agreement fell apart in court after the judge in Delaware asked about a sweeping immunity clause in paragraph 14. ” The rest of the filing is equally devastating.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2024

Hunter was just convicted by a unanimous jury in Delaware for false statements on a gun form and possession of a firearm as a drug addict. While the result in Washington was not as bad as the unanimous decision in Delaware, it may well have sealed his fate on appeal. That brings us back to Hunter. It almost worked. They were wrong.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

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. There was never a serious question of convicting Hunter of these crimes , just a will of the Justice Department to secure them. They did and Weiss was forced to actually prosecute Hunter.

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JURIST

JUNE 11, 2024

A federal jury in Delaware on Tuesday found Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, guilty of lying about his drug use while purchasing a firearm. The younger Biden was found guilty of three felonies : making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. §

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JURIST

JUNE 3, 2024

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.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 22, 2022

By bringing this action as a civil lawsuit, the Justice Department may have undercut the ongoing investigation by David Weiss, the US attorney for Delaware, into Hunter Biden’s foreign dealings. The lawsuit under the Foreign Agents Registration Act is bad news for Wynn, but it may be a win for another potential target: Hunter Biden.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Superior Court , a shareholder lawsuit, after the Fourth District, Division One, Court of Appeal, in a published opinion , refused to enforce Delaware forum selection provisions in the defendant company’s certificate of incorporation and bylaws. The court granted review in EpicentRx, Inc.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 24, 2022

Those states include Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Hawaii, and California. In 2020, while Black people made up 18% of New York’s population, they accounted for 78% of the state’s felony gun possession cases. This percentage has been above 90% for 13 consecutive years, according to the amicus brief.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 20, 2023

attorney for the District of Delaware. Section 7212 of the Internal Revenue Code makes it a felony for anyone “corruptly” to attempt to “obstruct or impede the due administration of” the Internal Revenue Code. Yet, there has also been a notable lack of perceptible movement in any of the investigations of the Bidens.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 1, 2023

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. If he is not reelected, Biden could issue a Clintonesque pardon for Hunter on his way back to Delaware. Hunter could wait to plead guilty.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 28, 2023

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.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2023

They even threw in a phantom felony allegation that will evaporate once Hunter completes a diversion program. They have finally done so with a long-predicted “controlled demolition” of the scandal by having the president’s son plead guilty to a couple of minor tax violations without a serious threat of jail time.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 13, 2023

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. He could also pursue felonies on the crimes detailed in the now-defunct plea bargain. This is not a case of history repeating itself.

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