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Leo Wise Makes Excuses for the Reams of Evidence from Periods Hunter Didn't Own a Gun
Before Leo Wise started presenting his evidence he made excuses for presenting so much from times when Hunter Biden did not own a gun.
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Hallie Biden Was First Compelled to Testify against Hunter Biden in 2022
Judge Maryellen Noreika first approved an order compelling Hallie Biden to testify against her brother-in-law in 2022.
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The AT&T Associations Underlying the Shoddy Laptop Validation
Hunter Biden's prosecutors may have knowledge of more problems with the laptop attributed to him than they've let on.
As I've described and quoted here, all the validation they've provided for the laptop is that the serial number for the…
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Roe v. Wade
SCOTUS opinions are intended in part to persuade as well as to explain. Is Blackmun's opinion in Roe persuasive?
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Definition of an Addict: Why Hunter's Paraphernalia around Kids Matters
We have no idea what jurors will decide in the Hunter Biden trial in days ahead. What we do know is what definition they'll use to decide whether he was an addict.
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Prosecutors Plan to Use Their Failure to Exploit the Ablow Laptop against Hunter Biden
David Weiss' prosecutors will use the fact that the DEA didn't check the Hunter Biden laptop found at Keith Ablow's office for evidence of drug crimes to excuse the fact that they have no direct evidence of drug use for the period when Hunter Biden owned a gun.
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Demons: The Greek Tragedy of America's Hunter Biden Addiction
Naomi Biden's testimony in the Hunter Biden trial on Friday may well help prove the possession case against her dad, while conflicting stories from the gun shop guys might harm the counts pertaining to his statements on the gun form. More than anything else, though, Friday's testimony demonstrated what a pointless stupid waste of time the nation's focus on prosecuting Hunter Biden has been.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler
The garbage behind the Hunter Biden prosecution.
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Reading, Rather than Bringing, Receipts
One of the Delaware cops who testified about finding the serial number of the gun that Hunter Biden bought described that the police report may have been filed over weeks or even a month.
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How to Think about the Hunter Biden "Laptop"
50% of the digital data submitted at Hunter Biden's trial before today was only available on the laptop, and other details virtually no one knows about the Hunter Biden laptop, including that girlfriend Zoe Kestan can offer more insight into the digital integrity of Hunter Biden's data than Erika Jensen.
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Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions
The Supreme Court's term ends this month, which means the court will dump a bunch of decisions in a short time frame. Here's an open thread to discuss decisions released today.
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Judge Noreika Risks Narrowing Hunter Biden's Right to Confront His Accuser Even Further
Derek Hines wants to imprison Hunter Biden without giving him an opportunity to show that the guy who claims he witnessed two of the charged crimes against Hunter Biden didn't fulfill his own part of the paperwork.
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Hunter Biden Prosecutor Derek Hines and the February 2019 Super 8 Crack Pipe
Four times now, Derek Hines has falsely claimed that a crack pipe Hunter Biden used in February 2019 in New Haven was instead something he used in October 2018 in Wilmington. Why can't Derek Hines keep his crack pipes straight?
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Special Agent Erika Jensen Did Not Look, and Did Not Find, Evidence of Tampering with the Laptop
Summary witness Erika Jensen did not look for signs of tampering on the laptop ascribed to Hunter Biden, and having not looked for it, she did not find any signs of tampering.
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Bringing Receipts: Print Date: 10/22/20
After growing to great lengths and making at least one false claim in a successful effort to ensure that none of Ronald Palimere's 2020 communications regarding an effort to politicize Hunter Biden's gun purchase could come in as evidence, it appears Derek Hines submitted one such piece of evidence himself.
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Gaps and Forms: Hunter Biden's Defense
It's easy to prove Hunter Biden was an addict when he bought and owned a gun in 2018. But prosecutors have to do more than that: They have to prove he thought of himself as an addict at key times.
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Special Agent Erika Jensen: Watch the Summary Witness' Blind Spots
As prosecutors' summary witness, Erika Jensen, continues to testify in the Hunter Biden case, keep an eye on her deliberate blind spots and negative space: because that's precisely what prosecutors are trying to hide.
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Judge Noreika Joins Derek Hines in Selective Adherence to the Laws of Physics
After agreeing with prosecutors that nothing the gun shop employees did after Hunter filled out the gun form was material to this case, Judge Maryellen Noreika then permitted prosecutors to submit evidence from months after his possession of the gun: sort of a heads the government wins, tails the defendants loses rule of time-space continuum.
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Maryellen Noreika Falls for Derek Hines' False Claims, Again
Derek Hines has made another false claim that couldn't survive 48 hours.
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On Eve of Opening Arguments, WSJ Launders David Weiss' Russian Disinformation Problem
How, on the eve of opening arguments in the Hunter Biden case, do you launder the fact that David Weiss reneged on Hunter Biden's plea deal because he was chasing false claims from a guy with close ties to Russian intelligence?