Hunter, Heuermann, And Other Worthies

What's going on in law enforcement? Our cup runneth over

Your narrator was pleased to be on America’s Newsroom with Dana and Bill this morning for a quick discussion of the current Hunter Biden case — and to have the opportunity to simply ask the below:

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Now, a likely response from Team Hunter would be that he was suicidal. Not buying that. Have you ever heard of that? Somebody specifically buying a gun for that purpose? In my experience — and alas, most cops have responded to that radio run at some point — that’s not how it works.

Studies of cops who suicide themselves invariably show that it is the access to a gun that they already possess that leads to that decision. It’s a fateful decision based on opportunity.

And God knows, Hunter had access to enough drugs, were that his ambition.

I don’t believe he had that ambition. He wanted the gun — in deep-blue Delaware, as the son of a major gun-control advocate with whom he has always aligned politically — for some other purpose.

Too bad he won’t take the stand. Suspect the answer to that would be pretty enlightening.

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Hunter Case Strategy Podcast

Join us over at the podcast for an overview of the currents blowing through the case and where it is all likely going. Interestingly, from Chris, Eric, and Paul: three different predictions on the outcome (maybe we’re just covering all bases).

And for an outtake snippet, click below, for Chris’s recounting of when his squad arrested a different Biden here in New York:

Some other quick observations:

The Defense

I’m wondering about the received wisdom regarding the “brilliance” of Hunter lawyer Abbe Lowell. So far, every defense narrative has been swatted down by the prosecution.

Particularly interesting to me is the laptop evidence. Now, Hunter’s phone backed up automatically to his laptop — a bad break for him and generally the default with Apple at the time. That’s why there’s so much evidence of all sorts of things on that laptop. It’s also the texts, emails, etc, from his phone.

Lowell would have gotten the relevant material during discovery. How did he think he was going to get around texts showing Hunter looking to score drugs both just before and just after the gun purchase?

Lowell’s theory seems to now be the claim that Hunter was not a drug “addict,” but a drunk. Good luck with that.

Lowell also apparently planned to throw shade at the gun store owner, claiming the shopkeeper later altered the gun application in question. The alteration does appear to have happened — but is entirely irrelevant to the charges. The shop owner just added a second form of ID for Hunter.

I also think Lowell showed less-than-stellar judgment in trying to sneak that global plea deal past Judge Norieka. Without that, he could’ve just carved out the gun charge and had Hunter take a no-jail plea. The whole gun piece would’ve been forgotten already. In my estimation, a real mistake.

Unless the Defense has some major ace up their sleeve, this seems to come down to one thing: jury nullification. That is to say, the jury defies the facts and refuses to convict for some reason of their own (it is, after all, Biden country).

So….

The Prosecution

So far, the prosecution appears to have done a solid job, on good facts. There is, however, this: Should Weiss have asked for an anonymous jury?

The theory being floated by many is that the jurors in this case are susceptible to influence from the Bidens. Jill — sorry, Doctor Jill, forgive me — has sat in court each day ostentatiously taking notes. And recall that Joe recently visited Hallie, the widow of Beau Biden and one of Hunter’s exes — and a vital witness here. Seems like a message.

So, to avoid that pressure, the prosecution could have — in fact, should have — asked for an anonymous jury, in which the jurors’ names are never revealed (generally, the jurors are referred to by number).

Judge Norieka herself could have imposed this.

Now, the media would’ve squawked, but so what? We know who they’re pulling for.

The Prosecution should have done this — even as a message to the Bidens.

We’ll see what result we get here, and if it would’ve even been necessary. But in light of the fact that it only takes one to hang a jury, and Delaware is an awfully small state….

We pull it apart here, at the podcast. It’s a more penetrative analysis than you’ll find anywhere.

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The Gilgo Murders

So new indictments have come down regarding the Gilgo murders, with the accused, Rex Heuermann, now being accused of six murders. Two quick observations:

1. Could the feds get jurisdiction? At this point, one of the Gilgo bodies, Karen Vergata, is not part of the Heuermann indictment. But the m.o. is decidedly similar, and the body parts were found in the same area. Vergata’s other body parts, however, were found in a place called Blue Point Beach, Fire Island. Fire Island is all federal land — so if you can show the murder occurred there, the feds would have jurisdiction on this homicide (a bit of a stretch, but worth it — see below).

   This matters for only one real reason: the death penalty. Were a federal agency to take this part of the case, the death penalty would be on the table (unlike a NY state case). And the death penalty might be the only lever there is to get Heuermann — if he is indeed the killer — to give up other bodies. Because where there’s six, there’s more.

2. It does look more and more likely that the prosecution’s theory is that the murders were perpetrated in the Heuermann home. According to the bail application the DA put out today, one of the new victims, Sandra Castilla, was found with a hair from a woman who had lived with Heuermann (not his current wife). This woman had reportedly moved out of the Heuermann home two months before the murder. How, then, did her hair get on Castilla’s body, all the way out in North Sea, Long Island? The most logical explanation is that that hair traveled with Castilla’s body, from Heuermann’s basement.

Finally, spare a moment for the detectives who originally worked this case, over a dozen years ago (in Castilla’s case, over 30 years ago). The original investigative team has taken a lot of grief over how they handled the case. But let’s remember who the good guys are. I can guarantee you they wanted to solve these cases more than anything in the world — and they meticulously collected the evidence that allowed the current task force to get the job done.

In my estimation, the original failure was one of leadership. The parts were there for a solve in this wide-ranging case, and the detectives had gotten to them. They were just not synchronized in a way that led to a suspect. And they could have been.

The investigation had holes, to be sure. But the biggest of those holes was at the top.

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Can This Administration Get Anything Right?

Somebody needs to go to jail….

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The Baldwin Bunch

So now comes word of this abomination:

So as Hilaria (pronounced with a Spanish accent, please — thank you) strikes various yoga poses… wouldn’t it be a shame if Alec had to shoot his parts from a New Mexico state prison?

Won’t happen, of course. He only shot someone. It’s not like he falsified 34 accounting entries.

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And finally…

This:

Plus this…

Equals this:

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