Judge grants Hunter Biden’s bid to delay tax trial until September
By
Ashley Oliver
May 22, 2024 3:58 pm
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A judge on Wednesday granted Hunter Biden’s request to delay his tax trial in California, moving it from its scheduled date of June 20 to Sept. 5.
Upon issuing the decision, Judge Mark Scarsi, a Donald Trump appointee, made Biden attorney Abbe Lowell vow to file no further delay requests, according to a CNN report from the courtroom.
Biden is facing nine charges brought by special counsel David Weiss over allegations he evaded taxes, failed to file taxes, and filed false returns during a four-year period beginning in 2016.
The small victory for the first son in his tax trial comes after his legal team had been scrambling to ask for delays and dismissals of his charges in both California and his separate criminal gun case in Delaware.
The trial in Delaware is scheduled to begin on June 3, and Judge Maryellen Noreika, another Trump appointee, denied Biden’s attempt this month to delay it. Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell had asked the judge at a hearing to push it out until at least July, citing a pending Supreme Court ruling that could affect the case and Lowell’s struggle to obtain expert witnesses who could testify for the defense.
Biden also filed a slew of requests to toss out his charges in both cases earlier this year, but Noreika and Scarsi denied the requests.
Biden then turned to the appellate courts, but in both cases three-judge panels found Biden’s appeals were premature. In Delaware, Biden asked this week for the appellate court there to reconsider one of his appeals.
This story is developing.
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