Kodak Black’s attorney criticized the prison-free plea agreement negotiated by the Justice Department and the president’s son. Kodak Black was charged with the same federal weapons crime as Hunter Biden and received a sentence of more than three years in prison.
“There’s no such thing as not getting jail time on a gun charge on any kind of gun charge,” Bradford Cohen, criminal defense attorney for Black, told Fox News Digital in an interview.
Hunter Biden agreed to enter a guilty plea to two misdemeanor charges of willful failure to pay federal income tax, the Justice Department reported on Tuesday. Additionally, the younger Biden consented to sign a pretrial diversion program in relation to a different accusation of possessing a handgun while abusing or addicted to a controlled substance.
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Cohen commented in a Tuesday Instagram post reacting to the news: “2 tiers of justice? Kodak was charged for the same crime. Got over 3 years. Mr. Biden will not serve a day. Feels right? Do FBI agents and federal authorities take cases personally?”
Cohen claimed in an interview with Fox Digital on Tuesday that the DOJ’s plea agreement with the younger Biden is inconsistent with how prosecutors typically handle federal crimes, particularly when those crimes involve well-known individuals.
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“I’ve never seen anyone where this offense was charged,” Cohen said, “and they didn’t get some sort of prison sentence. And in fact, most of the time in federal court, you very rarely see people get anything but a prison sentence.”
Black, who was 22 at the time and had prior offenses, pleaded guilty to charges involving guns and was given a sentence of more than three years in federal prison in 2019. He acknowledged to lying on federal documents in order to make two separate purchases of four firearms from a gun store in the Miami region. Then-President Donald Trump shortened Black’s 46-month sentence and granted him a pardon.