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To be fully honest, he did TRY to submit an Alford plea.

I got a 'breaking news' alert from NYT. He did submit (according to NYT) an Alford plea, and the judge immediately recessed the hearing stating that the court should not be involved in plea negotiations. I did not receive a follow-up notice, so had to look for the story.

https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-guilty-ple...

About a half-hour before the questioning of potential jurors was set to begin Thursday, Hunter Biden’s attorneys announced to a judge that they would like to enter into what’s known as an Alford plea. The maneuver, named after a U.S. Supreme Court case, allows a defendant to acknowledge that prosecutors have enough evidence to convince a jury of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt but also allows them to maintain their claim of innocence.

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Prosecutors do not have to agree to an Alford plea, but Scarsi was prepared to give the government until the end of the day to file its objections before ruling on whether he would accept the plea, likely after reconvening Friday.

Instead, Hunter Biden changed his plea to guilty on all nine of the tax charges. There was no offer on the table from prosecutors to reduce those charges or to recommend a lesser sentence, and prosecutors read the charging documents aloud for more than an hour before he was asked to enter the plea.

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