The criminal trial of President Joe Biden’s troubled son Robert Hunter Biden on three gun charges in a Delaware federal district court is troubling, but not for the reasons you might expect. The trial itself is unremarkable and playing out like any trial where the evidence of guilt, both direct and circumstantial, is overwhelming.
Under normal circumstances, this trial would be what trial lawyers call a “slow plea”—that is, a trial where despite overwhelming evidence of guilt, the defendant insists on his “day in court.” In such instances, the trial happens, the jury convicts, and the judge imposes an appropriate sentence. Everyone can walk away satisfied because the defendant got to exercise his constitutional rights, he got a fair trial, and the jury followed the law and applied the facts in reaching its verdict.
But these are anything but normal…
