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Joe Biden’s niece could have her day in courtroom after she was busted on drugged-driving costs in Pennsylvania, with an arraignment set for Nov. 4 — sooner or later after the presidential election.
Caroline Biden, 33, the daughter of Joe’s brother James Biden, was arrested in Decrease Merion Township, Pa., in August 2019. The DUI case has been slowly shifting by way of the courts.
The Nov. 4 arraignment ensures that the Biden bust can be stored in a deep freeze till after voters within the swing state and across the nation go to polls.
“I discover it uncommon that it will be that far into the longer term,” Mike Gottlieb, a Norristown lawyer with expertise in DUI circumstances, instructed The Put up.
Biden’s case was first introduced earlier than Magisterial District Decide Henry J. Schireson in September 2019, the place she obtained a preliminary arraignment. She was launched with out posting bail.
Progress, nonetheless, was repeatedly delayed on account of requests for continuances by her authorized group. The courts then shut down fully between March and July in the course of the top of the COVID-19 pandemic.
When Caroline Biden does face her next judge, it will likely be a pleasant face within the type of Wendy Rothstein, a registered Democrat and associate on the legislation agency of Fox Rothschild. In recent times Rothstein has been an lively Democratic donor, FEC information present.
Rothstein ponied up $1,350 for Chelsea Clinton’s mother-in-law, Marjorie Margolies, in 2013-14 for a failed reboot of her congressional profession.
The case is in Montgomery County, one of many bluer components of the Keystone state, which overwhelmingly supported Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in 2016. Its district lawyer, Kevin Steele, can be a Democrat. “The case hasn’t come earlier than me but. I don’t know something about it,” Rothstein instructed The Put up, declining to remark additional.
A rep for the Pennsylvania courtroom system stated the arraignment date was auto-generated and that any implication of political interference is fake. “No choose was concerned within the scheduling of the formal arraignment,” courtroom spokeswoman Stacey Witalec stated.
Caroline Biden was busted round midday on Aug. 24, 2019, after she drove her 2008 Toyota Tacoma right into a tree, in keeping with courtroom paperwork obtained by The Put up. Officer Jeffrey Seamans, who responded to the scene, discovered “Biden had problem specializing in the dialog.” Within the automotive, police discovered tablet bottles for carisoprodol and lorazepam, each of that are managed substances.
“It was officer Seamans’ opinion that Biden was beneath the affect of an intoxicating substance to such a level that she was incapable of safely working a motorcar,” the affidavit reads.
“If convicted of this offense, the obligatory minimal sentence is 72 hours in jail, a wonderful of no less than $1,000 and a one-year license suspension & ignition interlock,” Mark Bergstrom, government director of the Pennsylvania Fee on Sentencing instructed The Put up. On the higher finish, the niece might face six months within the slammer.
“Ms. Biden’s matter is a routine first offense DUI during which she is receiving no particular issues,” John McMahon, a lawyer for Caroline Biden instructed The Put up.
