Hunter Biden sentencing date set. What we know
WASHINGTON - Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, will be sentenced on Dec. 4 after he was found guilty of making false statements on a gun background check and illegally possessing a firearm, according to a court order on Thursday.
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In July, Hunter Biden withdrew his motion seeking a new trial on federal gun charges after government prosecutors said his motion was based on a misunderstanding of appellate practice.
Hunter Biden was the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a felony on June 11 after a jury found him guilty on all three counts related to his lying about illegal drug use when he purchased a handgun in 2018.
What did Hunter Biden do?
Biden, 54, was charged with crimes associated with him lying about his drug addiction on a federal form he filled out in October 2018 to purchase a revolver at a Talleyville gun shop and possessing the gun as a drug user.
A jury heard prosecutors' evidence against Biden during a weeklong trial earlier this year. The evidence included a line of his former lovers and family members who testified about his struggles with crack cocaine addiction, a struggle he's documented himself in a memoir that prosecutors excerpted for the jury. Biden has said he has been sober for years.
The evidence also includes documents showing his purchase of the gun as well as testimony about the bizarre circumstances of how it was recovered after it was discarded in the trash outside a Greenville grocery store.
The jury ultimately convicted him of all charges: lying on a federal screening form about his drug use, lying to a gun dealer and possessing the gun.
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Could Hunter Biden go to prison?
Biden faces up to 25 years in prison for three charges although first-time, nonviolent offenders typically get much shorter sentences. Federal guidelines call for a sentence of 15 to 21 months for Biden.
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Could Hunter Biden receive a pardon from President Joe Biden?
President Biden said in June he wouldn't commute any sentence given to his son Hunter Biden for three federal gun felonies after a White House official did not rule out the possibility of a reprieve the previous day.
"No," Biden told reporters when asked at a Group of Seven nations summit in Fasano, Italy, whether he would commute his son's sentence.
In his first public remarks on his son's guilty verdict, Biden also reiterated that he wouldn't pardon Hunter Biden.
Reporting from Reuters contributed.
This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: Hunter Biden to be sentenced on gun charges Dec. 4
