乔·拜登总统的儿子亨特·拜登预计将在2011年12月16日被传讯时提出无罪抗辩联邦枪支指控他的律师周二在法庭文件中写道。
这是第一次官方表明年轻的拜登计划在他辞职后对抗对他的指控上周起诉尽管他的律师已经公开表示他会对这些指控进行抗辩。
总统唯一活着的儿子上周四被特别顾问魏红星起诉，指控他在联邦表格上撒谎，当时他说他在2018年10月购买柯尔特左轮手枪时没有吸毒。
亨特·拜登的律师阿贝·洛威尔(Abbe Lowell)此前曾表示，他们会撤回枪支指控，他在上周接受美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)的乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯(George Stephanopoulos)采访时表示，“根据事实，我们认为我们会进行辩护。”
洛厄尔周二提交了法庭文件，寻求通过视频会议而不是亲自在特拉华州法院首次出庭，以限制他所谓的“对政府资源的财政影响和威尔明顿市中心地区的后勤负担。”
“不管是真人还是虚拟的...洛厄尔写道:“拜登先生也将提出无罪抗辩，他没有理由不能通过视频会议说出这两个词。”
洛厄尔指出，在新冠肺炎疫情期间，虚拟出庭变得司空见惯，他在文件中称，“拜登先生和政府都不会因通过视频会议进行的首次出庭而受到偏见。”
2023年7月26日，亨特·拜登在特拉华州威尔明顿出庭后离开。
胡里奥·科尔特斯/美联社，档案
根据地方法官周一的命令，检察官反对虚拟传讯。
洛厄尔称政府的立场“令人困惑，因为拜登先生并没有要求对这一请求给予特殊对待，因为没有这里描述的额外考虑的个人经常通过视频出现。”
检察官说，经过五年的调查，联邦检察官和亨特·拜登之间的认罪协议于7月破裂上个月的法庭文件他们还打算在加州和华盛顿特区对亨特·拜登提起轻罪税务指控
Hunter Biden expected to plead not guilty on felony gun charges, per court filing
President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden is expected to enter a plea of not guilty when he is arraigned onfederal gun charges, his attorney wrote in court filings Tuesday.
It's the first official indication of the younger Biden's plans to fight the charges against him following hisindictment last week, though his attorney has publicly suggested he would fight the charges.
The president's only living son was indicted last Thursday by special counsel David Weiss on charges that he lied on a federal form when he said he was drug-free at the time that he purchased a Colt revolver in October 2018.
Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Hunter Biden, has previously suggested they would push back on the gun charges, telling ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an interview on "Good Morning America" last week that, "on the facts, we think we'll have a defense."
Lowell filed court papers on Tuesday seeking to have his client's initial appearance in a Delaware court take place via video conference instead of in person, in order to limit what he called "the financial impact on government resources and the logistical burden on the downtown area of Wilmington."
"No matter whether in person or virtual ... Mr. Biden also will enter a plea of not guilty, and there is no reason why he cannot utter those two words by video conference," Lowell wrote.
Noting that virtual court appearances became commonplace during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lowell argued in the filing that "neither Mr. Biden nor the government would be prejudiced by an initial appearance conducted via video conference."
Prosecutors have opposed a virtual arraignment, according to a magistrate judge's order on Monday.
Lowell called the government's position "puzzling because Mr. Biden is not asking for special treatment with this request, as individuals without the additional considerations described herein regularly make such appearances by video."
After a plea deal between federal prosecutors and Hunter Biden fell apart in July following a five-year probe, prosecutors said incourt filings last monththat they also intend to bring misdemeanor tax charges against Hunter Biden in California and Washington, D.C.
