From the NYTimes:
Douglas Berman, a professor of law at Ohio State University and a sentencing expert, read the court papers unsealed on Tuesday morning and said that it was difficult to assess from the filings whether Mr. Biden received a sweetheart deal.
The crimes to which Mr. Biden is pleading guilty, Mr. Berman said, are ones that the average person is rarely prosecuted for because they are usually only brought along with more serious offenses.
In Mr. Biden’s case, they include a charge stemming from lying about drug use on the government form used for his purchase of a handgun. Current and former officials say tens of thousands of Americans, out of the 25 million who buy guns each year, lie on their forms and are not prosecuted.
Prosecutors had pored over Mr. Biden’s finances, including examining two years of unpaid taxes. But in 2021, Mr. Biden paid the I.R.S. the full amount that his accountants estimated he owed, and paid off his liens.
By making the payments, former officials said, Mr. Biden complicated the ability of prosecutors to charge him with tax evasion because juries often question why the government has indicted someone who has paid his taxes. That left prosecutors with the options to charge Mr. Biden with filing his 2017 and 2018 taxes late — something that Mr. Biden’s lawyers argued to prosecutors are often handled without criminal charges and that in this case were handled as misdemeanors.
“If these are the only offenses, most prosecutors are going to say it’s not worth a federal case — they would say: Let’s not make a federal case of it for the average person because it’s not worth it to bring a case unless there’s reason to be concerned that there’s a public safety issue or the trust that everyone is treated equally under the law is at stake,” Mr. Berman said
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There’s no getting around it … they’re going to magnify and elaborate every little offense of Hunter Biden … and TOTALLY ignore Trump’s lies.
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Hello Nan. But don’t you think the normal regular person is starting to see through this? Not the die hard maga of course but the person who sees the bombastic overreach and thinks well this was a trump prosecutor and after all this time this is all the had? All the talk of the laptop they never produced and all the talk of whistleblowers that never seen to appear and the FBI form they claim as proof is only a form for accusations and was disproven under the trump administration by Bill Barr? When you cry wolf every time the wind blows and every time a news story comes out about their cult leader it starts to lose its punch value, doesn’t it? Hugs
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In answer to your last question … when it comes to Republicans, the answer is a resounding NO!
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