{"id":14834,"date":"2024-01-30T00:50:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T00:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/30\/judge-in-hunter-biden-gun-case-orders-search-warrants-unsealed\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T00:50:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T00:50:20","slug":"judge-in-hunter-biden-gun-case-orders-search-warrants-unsealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/30\/judge-in-hunter-biden-gun-case-orders-search-warrants-unsealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge in Hunter Biden gun case orders search warrants unsealed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The judge overseeing the federal weapons cases against the president\u2019s son, Hunter Biden, has ordered that search warrants used in two investigations of the embattled first son must be made public.<\/p>\n

Delaware District Judge Maryellen Norieka granted a request Friday to unseal four search warrants used in special counsel David Weiss\u2019 investigation of unlawful firearm possession and tax fraud cases against the younger Biden, the New York Post reported.<\/p>\n

The warrants are likely to shed light on the feds\u2019 legal basis for seizing Biden\u2019s electronic devices, as well as the evidence used to build the two criminal cases against him, the outlet said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The warrants were referenced in court papers earlier this month by Weiss\u2019 office as it argued against Hunter\u2019s bid to throw out the charges \u2013 prompting an independent journalist, Marcy Wheeler, to seek their unsealing.<\/p>\n

Neither Biden\u2019s defense team nor Weiss\u2019 office objected to the records being unsealed. It is not immediately clear when the documents will be accessible, the Post reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two warrants date from Aug. 29, 2019, and July 10, 2020, and were obtained by tax authorities and the FBI to look into Hunter Biden\u2019s Apple iCloud account. A third search warrant was obtained on Dec. 13, 2019, to examine the first son\u2019s now-infamous laptop.<\/p>\n

The fourth warrant was obtained Dec. 4 last year and used to collect electronic evidence in connection with the gun case \u2013 nearly three months after the indictment against the first son was unsealed.<\/p>\n

Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty in October to three federal gun charges brought by Weiss. The president\u2019s son has been charged with lying about his drug use in October 2018 on a form to buy a gun that he kept for about 11 days. He could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n

Defense attorney Abbe Lowell said in court the defense will file a motion to dismiss the charges, challenging their constitutionality. An appeals court previously found that a federal ban on drug users having guns violates the Second Amendment under recent Supreme Court precedent.<\/p>\n

Earlier this summer, Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax charges and would have also avoided prosecution on the gun charges had he stayed out of trouble for two years. It was the culmination of a years-long investigation by federal prosecutors into the business dealings of the president\u2019s son, and the agreement would have dispensed with criminal proceedings and spared the Bidens weeks of headlines as the election loomed.<\/p>\n

But the deal fell apart after a judge raised several questions about the arrangement.<\/p>\n

In December, Hunter Biden\u2019s lawyers filed a motion in federal court in Delaware to dismiss the indictment against him over gun charges, saying it \u2018violates\u2019 the collapsed plea agreement, and maintain it is \u2018still in effect\u2019 between the president\u2019s son and federal prosecutors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, federal prosecutors said a brown leather pouch used by Hunter Biden to store a gun had cocaine on it.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors had asked a judge to reject Hunter Biden\u2019s efforts to dismiss gun charges because investigators found cocaine residue on the pouch used to hold his gun.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors told the judge that \u2018the strength of the evidence against him is overwhelming,\u2019 rejecting Hunter Biden\u2019s claims that he was being singled out for political reasons.<\/p>\n

Hunter Biden previously made incriminating statements about his drug use in a 2021 memoir, but now investigators are saying the cocaine was found on the gun pouch after it was pulled from a state police vault last year.<\/p>\n

A chemist with the FBI determined the residue was cocaine, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Chris Pandolfo and Greg Whener contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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