Hunter Biden to appear in Arkansas court for paternity case
Hunter Biden must attend all court hearings related to his ongoing Arkansas paternity case, a judge has ruled.
“From now on … I want both of your clients at every hearing I conduct,” Independence County Circuit Judge Holly Meyer told attorneys representing Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts, the mom of his 4-year-old unacknowledged daughter, Navy.
Meyer lashed out at the attorneys on a Zoom call Monday, complaining that litigation was taking too long.
“I will no longer allow us to excuse clients,” she warned, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Hunter, 53, will be required to be present during the next in-person hearing scheduled at 9 a.m. May 1.
The judge issued the ruling after Brent Langdon, Hunter Biden’s attorney in the paternity suit, told her that a laptop associated with his client — and possibly containing income tax records — was still in a repair shop.
A back-and-forth followed between Meyer and Langdon, with the judge pressing the attorney to say whether the laptop belonged to his client.
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Langdon sought to distance himself from “all that stuff” concerning the infamous laptop, adding that he was “not in a position to even begin to answer that question.”
The exchange came after Langdon filed a motion seeking a restraining order against Garret Ziegler, a former adviser to President Donald Trump and founder of the nonprofit Marco Polo, whom Roberts has enlisted as an expert witness on the contents of Hunter’s laptop.
Ziegler, a Biden nemesis, last year produced a 644-page analysis of the laptop.
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Meyer declined to issue the temporary restraining against Ziegler.
Roberts, a former stripper, is suing Hunter Biden for child support for their daughter, Navy, who was born in August 2018.