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August 31, 2023

Hunter Biden plea agreement looks like 'sweetheart' deal, but also highlights wide judicial leeway
By Steven Richards


Studies now show that lenient sentences for federal gun charges are becoming rarer during the Biden administration. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) affiliated with Syracuse University, which compiles data on crime from a variety of federal sources, reported that weapons convictions are at “record high” levels during the administration. Convictions for such crimes reached record high in fiscal 2022, at 9,559,” according to a recent TRAC report. “This was the largest number in any single year since recording began,” the report also reads. “So far during the Biden administration conviction levels have averaged about 15 percent higher than those during the Trump administration.”


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