Though his federal gun crime trial wrapped up with his conviction on all three counts, Hunter Biden faces yet more bad news from a criminal consequences perspective, as the GOP-controlled House of Representatives is reportedly readying a criminal referral of him to the Department of Justice over alleged perjury issues, and Hunter has to face alleged tax crime charges.
Such is what George Washington University law professor and legal expert Jonathan Turley said during an appearance on Fox News Channel, on which he spoke to FNC’s Harris Faulkner about the situation, saying that the House of Representatives has its potential criminal referral against him pending, and so his woes are just beginning.
Turley said, speaking to the “Faulkner Focus” host, that the tax charges case is still pending and so not only are his woes just beginning, but his legal team has to both switch tacks and ready for a case with a convicted felon as a client. He said, “His counsel has got to refocus on that tax case. They are going into that case now with a convicted felon,”
Continuing, Turley noted that the tax law violation claims are quite strong and, in addition, Congress’ perjury referral is another issue with which he’ll have to deal. He said, “Now, these are very different types of claims, but there is a third front developing. Congress just referred, what I consider to be a very strong case, for a perjury investigation of Hunter Biden after his testimony before Congress.”
Turley then explained that, though the expectation is that AG Garland will try to torpedo the perjury claims against Hunter when the House sends a criminal referral, the issue is that it looks like the House has Hunter “dead to rights.” He said, “Now the expectation is that Garland is going to basically scuttle that referral, but the problem is that the House seems to have Hunter Biden dead [to] rights… on those perjury claims.”
Emphasizing the problems that could result for Hunter from what he told Congress, as he almost certainly seems to have lied, Turley explained that the situation means AG Garland will either have to let Hunter be prosecuted on yet another issue or will have to quash almost certainly true charges. He said, “It is hard to see how what he said before Congress was true. It is a much more serious offense. It is currently sitting on the desk of Merrick Garland.”
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Turley also told Faulkner, during the interview, that the prosecution in the gun charges case did an exceptionally good job and that Hunter’s lawyer had a hard time constructing a believable defense. He began, “Part of the problem was that Abbe Lowell, the defense attorney, put forward a bunch of defenses in the opening statement that collapsed within 48 hours.”
He continued, “I mean, the prosecutors did an extraordinarily good job here. They were focused, they were disciplined, and they methodically took apart each of these defenses in front of the jury and when you pursue nullification strategy, it can go too far sometimes. It can make the jury feel like they are being treated as chumps and I think that here, the jury followed instructions and did their duty.”
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