Judge officially drops Hunter Biden's federal gun case after pardon [View all]

Source: Scripps News

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All future proceedings in Hunter Biden's federal gun case have been terminated.

District Judge Maryellen Noreika issued the order on Tuesday — less than 48 hours after President Joe Biden announced he was pardoning his son.

Hunter Biden was found guilty in June of three felony counts related to lying about his illicit drug use on forms required to purchase a gun. He was scheduled to be sentenced this month. It was supposed to be a culmination of years of investigations that prosecutors said were bolstered by Hunter Biden’s book, “Beautiful Things: A Memoir.” In the book, the president’s son admits to using drugs around the time he bought the gun.

Prosecutors argued that Biden knowingly lied about his drug use on federal gun-purchase forms in 2018. Biden's defense team unsuccessfully tried to convince the jury that the president's son was not actively using at the time of the purchase. After issuing the pardon, President Biden criticized prosecutors for bringing the case in the first place.

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