Hunter Biden is urging a judge to throw out the gun charges he faces, citing a deal his team negotiated with the Justice Department this summer.
The Justice Department has said that deal, which included language protecting him from criminal charges, was never finalized. But Hunter Biden’s lawyers argue it is in place and that it shields him from both his criminal gun charges in Delaware and a new set of criminal tax charges that prosecutors brought against him in California last week.
Lawyers for the president’s son made the argument Monday as part of a series of motions asking U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika to throw out the gun case, in which Hunter Biden is charged with illegally owning a gun as a drug user and lying on a federal gun purchase form. His lawyers also argued that the federal ban on drug users possessing firearms........