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Hey, this is Tre, thank you for joining us for a Tuesday edition. Hope everyone had a great weekend and is in the

throws of having a fantastic week. 27 years ago a country music singer named Deanna Carter released a single titled Strawberry Wine.

It was a massive hit. I actually thought of that single and more particularly the album which spawned that single when the US attorney in Delaware

announced the charges Hunter Biden would be pleading to and I know you're sitting there thinking what in the world does a criminal information in Delaware have to do with Deanna Carter's song Strawberry Wine? Well, I'll tell you the song strawberry wine came from an album by the name of did I really shape my legs for this?

I was the name of her album. I got a confess. I don't know a lot about shaving legs. I mean, I guess I know as much as anyone who has three sisters a wife and a daughter could know. I'm taking it that Deanna Carter's album title sort of captures the feeling of being underwhelmed by something.

And that was the consensus in the aftermath of the Biden plea announcement to counts of misdemeanor failure to pay taxes on time and then there will be a diversion of the gun charge wherein he will plead guilty to lying on the application to purchase fire on and then it will be diverted away from that would be a felony because you can get up to 10 years for that.

I'll say for another podcast the our media's obsession with citing the maximum penalty someone can get even though they almost never get the maximum. I'll say that for another day. It is true. The statutory maximum for that offense is 10 years, which means you can't get more than that. It is also true. Almost no one ever gets anywhere near that. But I digress.

Questions remain on what has happened and what if anything is yet to come. Some of those questions are legitimate and some are just the reflex of what has become daily political war.

One of the things touted most about living in America is the freedom of speech. The freedom to weigh in on issues even if you have no experience, no background, really even any knowledge. And by that I mean your lawyer is welcome to weigh in on why your blood pressure is high.

Or if you have a rapid heart rate or if you think you have hypoglossemia or diabetes, I mean your lawyer, your plumber, your electrician, the golf pro, they're all welcome in this country to weigh in.

Your doctor for that matter is welcome to weigh in on how you should plan your trust with a life estate and avoid the rule against perpetuities.

Your preacher is welcome to tell you what's wrong with your plumbing and your plumber is welcome to talk to you about eschatology. People have the freedom to express their opinions and you have the freedom to ignore them.

Speech may have the same constitutional worth but it definitely does not have the same value. If someone has not spent a moment, a nanosecond in a courtroom proving anything to anyone, yes it is technically true that person has the right to talk about how easy a case is.

I do tend to pay more attention to those who have actually had to do it actually gone into a courtroom and proven something to 12 people who were not able to get out of jury service and do it beyond a reasonable doubt.

Call her me simple minded but folks who have actually done it I have a tendency to pay a little bit more attention to what they have to say.

There are complicated cases in the criminal justice realm. They're sophisticated fraud schemes, there are murder prosecutions with no body.

There are child sexual assault cases where the child is right on the verge of even being competent to testify and there's no forensic evidence, there's no scientific evidence.

There are some very challenging cases in the criminal realm. However, failing to pay taxes on time and lying on the application to purchase firearm would not be among them.

On the tax count, you literally need a calendar and a question. So you hold up the calendar and you point to some date in or around April 15 depending on weekends and holidays and you simply ask the question, did you pay your taxes?

By this date on the gun charge is also pretty simple. Did you lie on an application to purchase a firearm? However, on the gun case, it is worth noting.

There are very few prosecutions for possessing a gun or seeking to purchase a gun while being a habitual user of unlawful drugs.

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