Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden (R), leaves the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Constructing in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 26, 2023.
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Federal prosecutors on Wednesday urged a judge to reject a request by Hunter Biden to have his first court appearance on felony firearm charges be conducted via video.
Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, “needs to be treated no in another way” than other defendants, Department of Justice special counsel David Weiss said in a court filing in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Del.
Weiss noted the court’s pandemic-related order authorizing virtual proceedings expired in June 2022.
Since then, defendants’ first court appearances are “almost all the time held in-person,” Weiss wrote.
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