Professor Bennett Capers, a former federal prosecutor and head of the Center on Race, Law, and Justice at Fordham Law, and Professor Cheryl Bader, a former federal prosecutor and head of the Criminal Defense Clinic at Fordham Law, are both quoted in an Associated Press on the differences between Hunter Biden’s case and the cases of two rappers who faced the same gun charge.
“It’s really not a fair comparison, since plea deals turn on way more than the actual charge,” Bennett Capers, a former federal prosecutor who now heads the Center on Race, Law, and Justice at Fordham Law, wrote in an email. “A federal prosecutor looks at a person’s prior arrests, a person’s prior convictions, and also looks at what else the defendant can be charged with.”
Capers and other experts noted that Carter had already been sentenced to eight months in prison more than a decade prior for another felony gun charge. Convicted felons are barred under federal law from possessing firearms.
_____“The comparison with Kodak Black’s case in Florida is a red herring,” Cheryl Bader, a former federal prosecutor who now runs the Criminal Defense Clinic at Fordham Law, wrote in an email.
Capers agreed: “Comparing Hunter to someone with a different criminal history and the target of a different criminal investigation will always be on par with comparing apples to oranges.”