A plea deal between prosecutors and Hunter Biden fell apart last month following a dispute about an immunity provision.
An attorney for said a trial for his alleged tax-related crimes is « not inevitable » despite a plea deal last month and the to oversee the investigation into President Biden’s son.
« It’s not inevitable, » Abbe Lowell told « Face the Nation » on Sunday. « We were trying to avoid [a trial] all along and so were the prosecutors, who came forward to us and were the ones to say, ‘Can there be a resolution short of a prosecution?’ So they wanted it and maybe they still do want it. »
Transcript: Abbe Lowell on « Face the Nation »
Hunter Biden faces charges for failing to file or pay his 2017 and 2018 income taxes and for owning a handgun while he was a drug user in 2018, which is prohibited by federal law.
He had reached an agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware in June to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and enter a diversion program in lieu of pleading guilty to felony gun possession. But at a court hearing in July in which Hunter Biden was set to plead guilty, a federal judge refused to sign off on the agreement after his attorneys and prosecutors disagreed on the scope of an immunity provision in the diversion agreement.
