The Hunter Biden verdict is in. This is ordinarily a bad sign for a defendant since one would have expected at least a hung jury on this evidence. That would have produced an Allen charge where the court would send them back for additional deliberations...
...Of course, this is a Biden being tried in Wilmington so predictions are a bit more difficult with a clear nullification strategy...
...Guilty on all counts...
...The nullification strategy did not work in the end. The implausibility seems to have overwhelmed the sympathy in the case...
...The problem is that the defenses put up by Abbe Lowell in the opening argument collapsed within two days as the prosecutors methodically dismantled these claims...
...This is not a case where the defendant accepted responsibility, pleaded guilty, and sought leniency from the court. That does not mean that he will get jail time but I would not rule that out given the position of the defendant.
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