No matter how this case ends, it will continue to give fodder to anybody half awake. From a laptop that we were told it was a fake created by the Russians to alter the election results and thus FBI and DOJ (and therefore all the other minions) declaring it a host and then being presented in court as true evidence.
Then the question if drug use should be the disqualifier as it stands in the law.
And the latest is this beauty from the defense’s closing arguments:
ignorantia juris non excusat (ignorance of the law excuses not)
That is what we have been told since the Roman Empire. If you break the law even if in your heart of hearts did not know a law against existed, it has no bearing and thus you are guilty. I am not too fond of the concept since governments abuse it after they pass thousands silly laws designed to either increase revenue or just control citizens (malum prohibitum). And we as gun people know this intimately: 16 inches is Legal but 15 and 7/8s and we shoot your wife and son.
My uneducated guess is that he will be fond not-guilty and the story buried deep and fast. And if by any chance the jury deadlocks and a mistrial is declared, the prosecutor will not retry citing whatever excuse is available that day.
And at the end of the day, it does not mean a hill of beans in our lives.
And at the end of the day, it does not mean a hill of beans in our lives….. this is the true definition of ALL politics.. politics is nothing more than a distraction and another way to divide people….
Well, except for the part where they’ll send you to prison if you disagree with them, sure
Given that the Federal Register runs about 200 pages PER DAY, it’s entirely obvious that not a single US citizen knows what the law is.
So while the old saw has it that “ignorance of the law is no excuse” it is, or should be, today — because ignorance of the law is the only possibility left to the people.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood… (James Madison, Federalist #62)
So now he’s Guilty. We’ll see if a federal gun felony is a serious crime when he is sentenced.
Poor Hunter.
He was so stoned that he didn’t realize that he was stoned. 8>)