A disciplinary office in Washington is seeking suspension Hunter Biden‘s legal license was after that was sentenced last week on federal weapons charges.
The Office of Disciplinary Counsel, which serves as the prosecutor in disciplinary cases for members of the D.C. Bar, sent a letter to the D.C. Court of Appeals on Monday proposing to suspend Biden. Rules managing attorney arrests after being charged with a crime.
Proposed language for the order urged the appeals court to deem the president’s son “immediately disbarred from the practice of law in the District of Columbia pending resolution of this matter” after the Delaware jury found him. convicted of three felony weapons charges.
The proposed order, which says Biden has been a member of the D.C. bar since 2007, would also direct the Board on Professional Responsibility to “initiate formal proceedings to determine the nature of the crime and whether it involves moral turpitude.”
According to DC Bar rules, any felony is a “felony” and the court is responsible for ordering the “immediate disbarment of the attorney” regardless of any pending appeal, while the board initiates any disciplinary proceedings. It has discretion to waive suspension “when it appears to be in the interests of justice.”
Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday night.
It was Biden who pleaded not guilty in this case has been convicted All three charges related to possession of a gun he bought while using drugs in 2018.
Two of these articles carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. The third clause carries a maximum sentence of five years. Each count also carries a maximum fine of $250,000. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
Biden also pleaded not guilty to tax charges in a trial nheset w will start on September 5.