No high powered attorney takes a deal without knowing that’s all the charges.
Dirty Weiss is only trying to now block Congress.
Hunter’s attorney knows it’s closed.
Posted on 06/20/2023 3:50:13 PM PDT by george76
Biden’s DOJ is letting Hunter walk away with the kind of slap on the wrist most defendants can only dream about from inside a prison cell.
What a breathtaking and damaging act of misdirection. After five years of investigation into a host of criminal acts by Hunter Biden, the Department of Justice (DOJ) finally brought charges against the president’s wayward son. But while the DOJ hopes the public focuses on words like “charges” and “guilty” to form an image of accountability for all, it’s letting Hunter walk away with the kind of slap on the wrist most defendants can only dream about from inside a prison cell.
In the same breath in which DOJ announced it was filing charges against Hunter Biden, it also stated that the case had already been resolved. Hunter will plead guilty to and serve probation for two tax fraud misdemeanors while a felony firearm possession charge will disappear after he completes pretrial diversion. It’s a resolution that if the defendant’s last name weren’t Biden would sound almost too good to be true.
The feds are notoriously tough on firearms. Nationally, for example, 94.2 percent of federal firearms convictions in 2022 involved some prison time, and the median sentence was 39 months.
Of course, Hunter won’t even have to end up with a conviction. This is an even rarer event. In 2021, fewer than 1 percent of cases filed by U.S. attorneys in federal court resulted in the kind of pretrial diversion offered to Hunter.
It’s that disparity between Hunter’s case and everybody else’s that’s the true problem, not necessarily the sentence itself. After all, the law in question, which prohibits individuals suffering from an illegal drug addiction from possessing a firearm, likely violates the Second Amendment. Plus, diversion programs across the country have improved public safety at lower cost to taxpayers than prison alternatives.
But that’s clearly not how things are shaking out in practice at DOJ, and President Biden has expressed an ongoing willingness to harshly punish firearms offenses. His DOJ is defending this law in court, and he signed a law in 2021 to increase maximum penalties from 10 years to 15 years in prison. Apparently, President Biden does not believe offenders should be treated with kid gloves — at least when it’s not his kid.
Indeed, if Hunter’s were a typical case, we could have expected a much more aggressive DOJ response. Mixing illegal drugs and firearms is usually a quick trip to the land of five- or seven-year mandatory minimum sentences. Whole initiatives, such as Project Safe Neighborhoods, have been built around getting offenders combining drugs and weapons off the streets.
That Hunter will walk away with few consequences where thousands have instead been left to languish in federal prisons in terrible conditions paints a picture of a two-tiered justice system where an accident of birth can matter more than the facts of a case. We can debate which tier is better for our country or how we ought to respond to these kinds of transgressions. But the legitimacy of the criminal justice system demands that there be only one track that applies fairly to all.
So, no, this is not a day of accountability. It is one of power and privilege securing special benefits while hoping the rest of us are too distracted by the headlines to notice. We shouldn’t let this pass without calling it out for what it is and then working to improve it.
Here is the link to the white house youtube streaming of where hunter tells us - cued at the exact timestamp where he says so.
President Biden Delivers Remarks and Signs Executive Orders
Furthermore, it is my understanding that plea deal was for him to save his life, albeit with some VERY strict conditions; and that he has since violated the conditions, thus was not able to save the life he bargained for...
If you are following the current "news", YOU ARE WATCHING A MOVIE!
Two-tiered justice.
It’s a fact that we pro-2A folks have been somplaining about for decades, that lying on a 4473 form is almost never prosecuted, when proper enforcement would catch more than a few bad guys who ought to be in jail.
I don’t hold any love for thr whole “background-check” business, but if you’regoing to have the law at all, use it for the purpose for which it was intended. As it is, this is just being used as a preliminary for confiscation against law-abiding citizens.
The only way anyone will be prosecuted is if they vote against Demcrats.
7 Years for a Trump supporter for trespassing after being invited in by the cops, while Biden gets no time and pled down to a misdemeanor. Sounds like Justice from the New DOJ, doesn’t it?
Hunter spilled some milk and Daddy cleaned it up. Nothing to see anymore, move along.
The rest of us would be languishing in a federal prison cell.
I hate what my country has become.
What charges?
They gone now. Tax evasion is cool. Gun crime is cool.
NOBODY F’s with a Biden!
He should have been treated at least as severely as Donald Trump’s valet.
I didn’t think diversion exactly.
I did wonder if it was a ploy to ease the sheeple…I mean public’s … opinion the DOJ was weaponized. Then bring the hammer down on Trump when it actually counts——not some crackhead who will never amount to anything beyond what his daddy gets him—-and when people complain they could say they are fair, look how they prosecuted Hunter.
I know that feeling, FRiend.
Our multitiered INjustice non-system:
1) Foreign invaders aka migrants
2) Democrats
3) LGBTZRSTUVWXYZ+ regardless of party
4) “People of Color” regardless of party
5) Muslims
6) Republicans in general
7) White, Christian, straight men
Wearing out my keyboard keys for
Dems skate
Everyone else goes to prison.
as part of the deal the prosecutors must kneel
kiss Prince Hunter’s ring and
apologize for all the heartache they have caused
Wannabe Dictator will then hang them
have them drawn and quartered and
put their head on a pike
on the national mall
as a warning to others
Tucker talks about this but it seems to be shadow banned.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson
Watch this
I see or hear nothing at that timestamp, earlier or later. I don’t disbelieve you, but your inferred evidence.
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