{"id":1999855,"date":"2023-08-14T10:51:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-lawyers-say-part-of-deal-to-resolve-felony-gun-charge-remains-intact\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:53:41","slug":"hunter-biden-lawyers-say-part-of-deal-to-resolve-felony-gun-charge-remains-intact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-lawyers-say-part-of-deal-to-resolve-felony-gun-charge-remains-intact\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyers confirm that a portion of the agreement to settle the felony gun charge remains unchanged."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhunter-biden-lawyers-say-part-of-deal-to-resolve-felony-gun-charge-remains-intact%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1999855&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Attorneys for Hunter \u2062Biden\u200b Argue\u2062 Validity of Plea Deal<\/h2>\n<p>Attorneys\u200d representing \u200dHunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, are asserting that their agreement with federal prosecutors to resolve\u2064 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/victims-blame-soros-backed-prosecutors-for-crime-wave-in-u-s-cities\/\" title=\"Victims Blame Soros-Backed Prosecutors for Crime Wave in U.S. Cities\">felony gun charge<\/a> is both\u200c &#8220;valid and binding.&#8221; However,\u2064 the stance of \u2064the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-lawyers-say-part-of-deal-to-resolve-felony-gun-charge-remains-intact\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden's lawyers confirm that a portion of the agreement to settle the felony gun charge remains unchanged.\">newly appointed\u2064 special counsel remains uncertain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The court filing, submitted on Sunday, follows \u2062the recent appointment of David Weiss\u200b as special \u2063counsel.\u2062 Weiss, a U.S. attorney \u2063appointed by former\u2063 President Donald Trump, is currently investigating Hunter Biden. Just days after being granted special counsel status, Weiss&#8217;s\u2064 office\u200b stated\u200d in \u200dcourt documents that they were &#8220;at \u200ban impasse&#8221;\u2062 with the defense regarding further \u2064plea negotiations.<\/p>\n<h3>Debate \u2064Surrounding the Plea Deal<\/h3>\n<p>Prior to \u2062this development, Hunter Biden&#8217;s counsel \u2063and Weiss&#8217;s\u200b office had reached\u2064 a\u200d plea agreement. Under this agreement, Biden would plead guilty to two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bombshell-irs-testimony-claims-doj-meddled-in-hunter-biden-investigation\/\" title=\"IRS Testimony: DOJ Interfered in Hunter Biden Probe\">federal tax misdemeanors<\/a>, and a diversion agreement would be implemented to drop the felony gun charge in two years, provided Biden passed drug tests and remained \u200blaw-abiding.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the\u2063 deal seemed solid when it \u200bwas \u2063announced in late June. \u200bHowever, it\u2064 unraveled during a \u200ccourt hearing last \u2064month, drawing scrutiny from U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika.\u2063 Negotiations\u200c resumed but encountered obstacles last week.<\/p>\n<p>In a three-page filing\u200b on \u2063Sunday, Chris Clark, an attorney for Hunter Biden, argued \u200cthat Weiss had decided \u200bto &#8220;renege&#8221; on the previously\u200d agreed-upon Plea Agreement after negotiations fell apart. From the perspective of Biden&#8217;s counsel, the diversion agreement for the gun charge was\u200d fully executed when it was \u200bsigned by \u2062both parties\u2062 and presented to Noreika in Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>Clark emphasized that his client intends \u200bto abide by the \u2063terms of the Diversion Agreement and\u200c asserted that the \u2064parties have a valid and binding bilateral agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Response from Weiss&#8217;s team regarding the status of \u200cthe\u2064 diversion agreement remains unclear. Noreika\u200c has set a deadline for prosecutors to respond to the defense&#8217;s filing by Tuesday at noon.<\/p>\n<h3>Possible Additional Charges<\/h3>\n<p>Prior \u200dto \u200bthe breakdown of the proposed\u2063 plea deal, Hunter Biden had\u200b tentatively agreed to \u2062plead guilty to two\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-art-buyer-revealed-as-a-major-democrat-donor-and-joe-biden-appointee\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden's art buyer is a prominent Democratic donor and an appointee of Joe Biden.\">misdemeanor tax \u200bcharges<\/a> for \u2063failure \u2062to pay\u2062 taxes in \u200d2017 and 2018.\u2062 Court records indicate that Biden was a resident of \u2064Washington, D.C., had a\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-bidens-release-blood-boiling-statement-after-hunter-agrees-to-plea-deal\/\" title=\"The Bidens' statement on Hunter's plea deal is infuriating.\">taxable income exceeding <\/a>.5 \u200dmillion, and owed over $100,000 in unpaid taxes.<\/p>\n<p>In their Friday filing, prosecutors hinted at the possibility of filing additional charges against the president&#8217;s \u2062son, \u200bindicating their intention \u200cto\u2064 file in California and Washington, D.C., where\u2063 Biden \u200bhas resided.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/hunter-biden-attorneys-plea-deal-valid-binding\">The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys for Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, assert that their agreement with federal prosecutors to settle a gun charge is legally binding. However, the stance of the recently appointed special counsel remains uncertain. This filing follows the appointment of David Weiss, a U.S. attorney chosen by former President Donald Trump, just two days prior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1999856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}