Clean and sober, taxes paid: Hunter Biden's new life could keep him out of prison

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Hunter Biden faces the prospect of becoming the first president’s child to be imprisoned when he is sentenced in November on gun charges and in December on tax charges, but legal experts expect relatively light punishment rather than decades behind bars threatened by the convictions.

The two verdicts culminated five years of federal investigation. Biden pleaded guilty Thursday to all nine charges he that failed to pay his taxes from 2016 through 2019. His June trial and conviction on three gun charges featured wrenching testimony about his addiction to crack cocaine during that period and he avoided putting his family through a second ordeal with his surprise tax plea.

Biden, 54, must now prepare for sentencing Nov. 13 of up to 25 years in prison on the gun charges and Dec. 16 of up to 17 years on the tax charges. The convictions came after a plea agreement fell through in July 2023 that provided a chance for him to walk away with probation and no prison time.

But legal experts expect Biden, as a first-time offender, to get nowhere near the statutory maximums when U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika sentences him in the gun case and when U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi sentences him in the tax case.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/clean-sober-taxes-paid-hunter-090858236.html

Hopefully the judge isn't a Trump appointee.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. He has been through more because of who he is related to.

Is the laptop issue moot now

He had a plea deal and they sundered it. They lied to him.

Rethugs made him a political football.

Enough.

[Walleye]

2. Hunter Biden, it looks like, had a bad few years after his brother died and his father was then a private citizen

He is nowhere near the lowlife anybody in the Trump family is. They were only picking on him to find some dirt in his laptop to use against Joe. They still didn’t find it. This prosecution could’ve been handled a lot better.

[patricia92243]

3. Now that his dad is no longer in the race, GOP doesn't care what happens. But, to

save face they have to act like they were serious all along. So. he will get probation or the whole thing thrown out of court or some sort of nothing action taken.

[Demsrule86]

4. Biden needs to pardon Hunter after the election and fuck bullshit charges which no one else in the same

circumstances have ever been charged much less gone to jail.