Hunter Biden’s attorneys dispute prosecutors’ claim of cocaine residue in seeking dismissal of gun charges
In one of Tuesday’s filings, lawyers for the president’s son also argued that special counsel David Weiss was unlawfully appointed to oversee the case.
Hunter Biden's attorneys on Tuesday doubled down on their arguments for dismissing federal gun charges brought against the president's son.
In a series of court filings, Biden's lawyers sought to bolster their positions for why a federal judge should toss out the charges brought in September, which included an allegation that he possessed a firearm while using a narcotic.
They also responded to a recent filing by prosecutors that said that “investigators observed a white powdery substance” on a brown leather pouch that held Biden’s firearm and that it was later identified as cocaine.
A member of Biden's legal team told NBC News on Tuesday that authorities had the “smoking pouch” for five years before they ran tests and that the pouch evidence can’t be authenticated because it was widely handled before testing. Evidence provided from text messages also doesn’t include a single text suggesting drug use on the day Biden is alleged to have purchased the gun, the member of Biden's legal team said.
His attorneys wrote in one of Tuesday’s filings that the prosecution "has not alleged in the indictment that Mr. Biden was using unlawful drugs at the time he purchased the firearm."
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