Hunter Biden is making efforts to nullify the federal indictment against him and maintains that the initial plea agreement is still valid, as per recent legal documents cited by NBC News.
On Tuesday, Biden refuted three federal firearm accusations that came to light after an earlier plea agreement concerning tax and firearm offenses fell through.
The defense team for Biden holds that the original agreement should stand since both the defense attorneys and Special Counsel David Weiss’ group had put their signatures on it.
In a legal document presented on Thursday, Lawyer Abbe Lowell stated that Biden “asserts” that the initial plea and diversion arrangement “continues to be valid.” He further noted, “In line with the immunity clauses of this Agreement, he will pursue an annulment of the Indictment against him,” as penned in the document.
According to the primary plea arrangement, Hunter Biden had consented to admit to minor tax offenses and would have sidestepped legal action on firearm offenses had he not run into any other legal issues for a span of two years.
Furthermore, Weiss incorporated an extensive immunity clause in the diversion agreement that shielded Biden’s overseas business transactions within a separate diversion agreement.
However, this arrangement met its downfall in a federal court during Biden’s arraignment in July, leading him to refute the tax accusations.
The son of President Joe Biden is being accused of providing false details about his drug consumption in October 2018 when procuring a firearm, which he kept for nearly 11 days.
Last month, Hunter Biden faced an indictment on three federal firearm offenses: two charges related to falsely completing a document stating he was not involved in illegal drug consumption when he acquired a firearm in October 2018, and a third charge asserting he had a firearm while under the influence of narcotics.
Biden’s legal representatives have indicated that the charges against him might have emerged due to political pressures, hinting at Republican influences alleging undue favoritism towards the president’s son.
Recent reports suggest that the legal authorities who pressed firearm-related charges against Hunter Biden are gearing up to formally drop one firearm charge that was part of the initial, now-abandoned plea agreement.
The legal maneuver, initiated on Wednesday, aims to drop a charge against Biden which alleges that he contravened a regulation against drug addicts possessing firearms, at a time when he has publicly admitted to grappling with addiction issues.
