No. of Recommendations: 7
Pastor Mark Houck committed his "crime" in Oct 2021, was subsequently subdued in a night time raid on his home by a 20 member heavily armed SWAT team, charged with an offense that could land him in prison for 11 years, and put on trial which is now almost complete, all in less than 1.5 years.I thought he had already been acquitted. No?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/pennsylvania-jury-acqui...Anyway, the difference is almost certainly due to the different fact patterns in the case. The entirety of the acts that would have been relevant to Houck's charges occurred in a single short time frame (no more than a few minutes) in broad daylight in front of numerous witnesses (and partially filmed, IIRC, but I can't find that mentioned in the articles now). And the alleged crime was reported and investigated almost immediately, making it relatively trivial to identify and contact any individual that might have relevant information.
That type of situation makes for an incredibly quick investigation.
Contrast that with the firearms charge Dope mentioned above. The paperwork is easy - they have a copy of that. But in order to prove that Hunter Biden lied,, they have to prove he was addicted to drugs at the time he filled out the paperwork. To do that, they have to assemble evidence of his drug use at that time. That investigation starts from scratch. You have to find the people that might have sold him drugs, or perhaps done drugs with him. You don't know when or where that might have happened. Unlike the Houck case, where many of the witnesses were probably eager to share their accounts of what happened, most of these witnesses would have themselves been involved in illegal activity, and would be reticent to come forward or - if identified independently - to voluntarily provide information.
Completely different case. The cops probably had a complete witness list and a pretty good handle on all of the relevant facts (and both sides of the facts where they were disputed) within a few weeks of the Houck incident. No way they get to that point that quickly in the Biden case - if ever they do.
