Biden argued diversion agreement and political pressure should dismiss case
Court dismissed arguments on procedural grounds
Hunter Biden facing trial on June 3 for three felony gun charges
Third Circuit Court rejects Hunter Biden's appeal to dismiss federal gun charges
In a significant development, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Hunter Biden's appeal to dismiss his federal gun charges. The ruling comes after Biden argued that a diversion agreement and political pressure from Republicans were reasons for the case to be thrown out. However, the appeals court dismissed these arguments on procedural grounds.
The decision clears the way for a trial against Hunter Biden, who is facing three felony charges related to his purchase of a revolver in 2018 while he was actively using narcotics. The trial is scheduled to begin on June 3 in Delaware.
Biden had previously argued that the diversion agreement, which required him to refrain from using drugs and alcohol and barred the purchase and possession of firearms, should still be in effect. He also claimed that he was 'vindictively and selectively prosecuted' by special counsel David Weiss.
However, federal prosecutors disagreed with these contentions in court filings. They wrote that the charges against Biden were not trumped up or because of political pressure but instead a result of his own choices.
Biden is also facing nine federal tax charges in California and is pursuing a similar effort to dismiss the indictment there.
The appeals court's decision comes after Judge Maryellen Noreika refused to dismiss the gun charges against Biden last month. Noreika had previously presided over Biden's botched plea deal hearing last summer, which collapsed when a judge refused to sign off on it.
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Hunter Biden also faces nine federal tax charges in California and is pursuing a similar effort to dismiss the indictment there
Hunter Biden's attempts to dismiss his federal gun case were rejected in back-to-back rulings on Thursday.
The appeals court dismissed Hunter Biden’s appeal related to his defunct plea deal and claims of political bias.
Judge Noreika refused to dismiss the gun indictment last month and previously presided over Hunter Biden’s botched plea deal hearing last summer.
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The article contains selective reporting as it only reports details that support the author's position. The author focuses on the rejection of Hunter Biden's appeals and the upcoming gun trial, while omitting any mention of why these appeals were made or what they entailed. This creates a one-sided narrative that may mislead readers into believing that there is no merit to Hunter Biden's arguments. Additionally, the author uses emotional manipulation by implying the significance of Hunter Biden being the child of a sitting US president and using phrases like 'high-stakes criminal trial' and 'legally and politically perilous summer'.
The rulings pave the way for the first-ever trial against the child of a sitting US president.
This appeal is dismissed because the defendant has not shown the District Court's orders are appealable before final judgment.
But Hunter Biden's attorneys argued that under the Second Amendment, an individual 'can no longer be denied gun ownership due simply to past drug use.'
The current state of the law on the facial constitutionality of (the statute) is decidedly not in Defendant's favor.
A federal appeals court rejected Hunter Biden’s request to dismiss his gun charges in Delaware, clearing the way for a June trial.
Hunter Biden then appealed with three arguments, including that he shouldn’t face a trial after a plea agreement fell apart last July and that prosecutors are being vindictive because of political pressure from Republicans to prosecute the president’s son.
The appeals judges ruled that nonprosecution agreements, such as the one that was abandoned for Biden’s gun charges, don’t prevent being charged in the future.
