Hunter Biden asked a judge to remove from his indictment in California any mentions of his “extravagant lifestyle” and other similar references, arguing they were “gratuitous facts” that were irrelevant to the tax charges special counsel David Weiss brought against him.
The request came amid a flurry of nine separate court filings from Biden on Tuesday night, eight of which were calls for Judge Mark Scarsi to dismiss the case. The ninth was the request to excise the mentions of his lifestyle.
“The Indictment is littered with inflammatory characterizations and gratuitous facts and descriptors that have little or no probative value and yet pose a significant risk of confusing and misleading the jury or prejudicing the jury’s view of Mr. Biden,” attorneys for President Joe Biden‘s son wrote.
Weiss indicted Hunter Biden last year
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