Judge rejects Hunter Biden's request to dismiss federal tax charges
The judge overseeing the federal tax case against Hunter Biden denied a series of motions by the president's son to dismiss the tax charges against him.
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The judge overseeing the federal tax case against Hunter Biden denied a series of motions by the president's son to dismiss the tax charges against him.
A lawyer for Hunter Biden told a federal judge in Los Angeles there was no reason to proceed with the scheduled start of jury selection in his criminal tax case Thursday morning because the son of President Joe Biden intends to change his plea. The lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said Hunter Biden wants to enter a so-called Alford plea, in which a defendant maintains they are innocent of criminal charges but concedes prosecutors have enough evidence to convict them. If U.S. Judge Mark Scarsi accepts the Alford plea, Biden would be convicted. Lowell's announcement caught prosecutors by surprise. Scarsi gave them time to digest the development and to discuss it with Biden's defense team. Under Department of Justice guidelines federal prosecutors "
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Jury selection is set to begin Thursday in Hunter Biden's federal tax trial just months after the president’s son was convicted of gun charges in a separate case.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin Thursday in Hunter Biden’s federal tax trial just months after the president’s son was convicted of gun charges in a separate case.
While Hunter Biden vacationed with his family in Santa Ynez Valley in California on Wednesday, nearly 100 miles away in Los Angeles his lawyers empathetically defended him in his final pretrial conference before hisfederal tax case heads to trial.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday denied Hunter Biden’s latest bid to dismiss the tax charges against him, setting the stage for his trial to begin next month in California.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in California is threatening to sanction Hunter Biden’s lawyers, saying they made “false statements” in a court filing asking the judge to throw out the tax case against President Joe Biden’s son.