As we reported last Thursday, Hunter Biden’s criminal defense attorneys contend that the failure of Hunter’s plea agreement and the filing of more serious charges against him in California are the result of “selective and vindictive prosecution” and a “breach of the separation of powers.” The defense team filed a motion to that effect in Delaware and plan to file the same motion in California, and are requesting an evidentiary hearing regarding the same.
During Hunter’s arraignment and status conference in the California case, his attorney Abbe Lowell repeatedly asked prosecutor Leo Wise if the prosecution had turned over all of their investigative material in the case. Wise replied that as far as he knew, all potentially exculpatory material had been turned over. Perhaps Lowell had a sense that there could be some negative information from the investigation that wasn’t yet public,…
