President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is expected to be sentenced eight days after the 2024 presidential election in November.
Judge Maryellen Noreika wrote in a court order Friday that sentencing for Biden would take place on November 13, 2024, at the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware.
He is facing up to 25 years in prison, roughly a total of $750,000 in fines, along with three years of supervised release.
American Faith previously reported that Biden was found guilty on all three felony counts pertaining to the purchase of a handgun in 2018.
Prosecutors claimed that Biden had lied on required paperwork claiming he was not addicted to narcotics or using drugs unlawfully.
Hunter, 54, lied when he ticked “no” on the form asking if he was “an unlawful user of, or addicted to” narcotics, according to the prosecution, who considered that the evidence was essential to show that he was in the grip of addiction at the time he purchased the pistol.
The younger Biden did not view himself as an “addict” at the time he purchased the firearm, according to his attorneys.
Having finished a rehabilitation program at the end of August 2018, they aimed to demonstrate that he was making an effort to change his life at the moment. Hunter’s daughter Naomi, one of the three witnesses presented by the defense, told the jury that her father appeared to be getting better in the weeks leading up to his purchase of the pistol.
Hunter Biden was found guilty by the jury of lying to a federally registered gun dealer, faking his drug use on the application, and possessing the pistol unlawfully for 11 days.
Over the course of two days, the jury in Wilmington, Delaware, deliberated for almost three hours.
