The mix-up "sounds more like a storyline from one of the 1980’s Police Academy comedies than what should be expected in a high-profile prosecution,” Biden’s attorney wrote.
Federal prosecutors mistakenly claimed in a court filing that a photo of sawdust they found while searching Hunter Biden’s electronics was cocaine, attorneys for the president’s son said Tuesday.
The sawdust picture was used in a court filing detailing incriminating information that prosecutors said they turned up while executing a search warrant of Biden’s laptop and electronics, but his legal team said in court papers that the picture was sent to their client by his then-psychiatrist as inspiration.
The picture shows three lines of yellow dust on a piece of wood near some other dust. The psychiatrist sent the picture to Biden in 2018, saying it was "lines of sawdust sent to me by a master carpenter who was a coke addict.”
Biden’s attorneys said the message and picture were “meant to convey that Mr. Biden, too, could overcome any addiction” and used the apparent mix-up to mock prosecutors.
A Prosecutor’s job is to find the truth. It shouldn’t be to push a narrative or instill doubt in the facts. The Prosecutor should want criminals to go to jail, not just anyone they can instill enough doubt on.
It’s the Defendant’s job to install doubt, to ensure the Prosecutor has a solid case.
On top of that, I’m pretty sure prosecutors are also expected to tell the truth and not make frivolous charges like “this obvious picture of sawdust on a saw is proof you’re using cocaine.”