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How Might Hunter’s Gun Conviction Affect His Tax Trial? – HotAir

Now that Hunter Biden’s gun trial is in the books along with his three convictions, his legal team is no doubt gearing up for his next date with the legal system. In September, he will be heading back to California to face a collection of tax evasion charges. The two cases are mostly unrelated, but will the first one still have some sort of impact on the second? In the opinion of law professor Jonathan Turley, it definitely could. The fact that he was convicted of illegally purchasing and possessing a firearm won’t be an issue in the California case, but assuming he is sentenced for those crimes, that could impact any sentence he might receive if he’s convicted of the tax charges. Hunter will be sentenced initially as a person with no criminal history. That won’t be true when he faces the tax charges so the court could potentially come down on him significantly harder. (NY Post)

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