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Hunter Biden’s attorneys are once again requesting a dismissal of his conviction on federal gun charges in Delaware and a new trial. This has turned into something of a soap opera at this point because his lawyers already made this request once, before turning around and withdrawing the appeal less than an hour later. This time, Hunter’s team isn’t even attempting to claim that he was incorrectly convicted and was actually innocent. They are filing the appeal based on what they claim was a procedural error by the court. They originally filed an appeal with the 3rd US Circuit Court challenging his prosecution. The court rejected the appeal before the trial began, but Hunter’s attorneys are saying that the court failed to issue a standard mandate returning the case to the lower court in a timely fashion.
Hunter Biden is requesting a new trial in his federal gun case, with his lawyers claiming that there was a procedural issue in the timing of the early June trial that resulted in a guilty verdict against him.
His lawyers claim that the trial court did not have jurisdiction over his case because of appeals that he had filed challenging his prosecution. The defense team says that the conviction must be wiped away because, even though the appeals court had rejected the appeals by the time the trial started, it had not issued what’s known as a “mandate” – the procedural maneuver that effectively notifies a lower court of ruling made by a higher court in an appeal.
