As RedState Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar reported from a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday, First Son Hunter Biden entered an open guilty plea to nine charges brought against him in a federal indictment related to failure to pay income taxes and tax evasion. He will be sentenced on December 16 and faces up to 17 years in prison and over $1.3 million in fines.
His lead defense attorney Abbe Lowell spoke to reporters after the court session and said Hunter’s plea was a “brave, loving thing to do.” Some would argue that it would have been a brave, loving thing to do a long time ago and would have saved a lot of people’s time and money and angst, but here we are.
It was a selfless act, Lowell contended in remarkably defiant remarks, saying that if the proceedings had been allowed to continue, things would have become a “show trial.”
Hunter decided to enter his plea to…