Special council urges judge to move forward with Hunter Biden trial despite delay attempts
May 18, 2024 | Kevin Haggerty
While Hunter Biden’s defense attorneys sought a nearly three-month trial delay, the federal prosecution responded with a reality check on how President Joe Biden’s son is “like any other defendant.”
Trials for the first son’s federal gun charges in Delaware and his tax evasion charges in California have both been slated to begin in June. Though previously accepted by the defense, Biden’s attorneys have filed for delays with the respective courts, and special counsel David Weiss was having none of it.
“No defendant would be afforded a continuance because he wrongly chose to lodge a jurisdictionless appeal, and this defendant should be treated no differently,” wrote Weiss in a Friday filing opposing any delay to the June 20 trial start. “Defense counsel offers a handful of other reasons why he wants a trial delay of 77 days, but none of them warrant a continuance. The motion should be denied.”
Key to the prosecution’s multi-pronged argument was the fact that at multiple times, Biden’s defense had agreed to the trial dates despite a now-claimed potential conflict with the Delaware case slated to begin little more than two weeks earlier.
“In his latest effort to delay trial (an application for continuance), defendant’s lead counsel’s primary reason is the weeklong June 3, 2024, trial in Delaware at which he is one of the lawyers representing the defendant with respect to firearms charges,” wrote the special counsel. “But on March 13, 2024, and again on April 11, 2024, lead counsel told the Delaware court he was able to try the gun case in Delaware on June 3, 2024, with full knowledge that this trial would begin on June 20, 2024, per this Court’s order several months earlier.”
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