I have to hand it to Hunter Biden’s legal team: They up the entertainment quotient considerably. In late June, we told you about their novel grounds for requesting a new trial for the First Son following his conviction in Delaware District Court on federal gun charges.
In a nutshell, Biden is claiming that because the Third Circuit Court of Appeals had not formally issued a mandate (the document that closes out the appeal and transfers jurisdiction back to the lower court with instructions) following its dismissal of his two (interlocutory) appeals on the case, the appeals remained pending, thus preventing the district court from having/reassuming proper jurisdiction over the matter before it went to trial.
Now, the Government has responded to Biden’s motion, and hoo boy, did…
