It officially determined he should not be indicted on felony charges as he's too senile to stand trial. Based on their interrogation of him, it was determined he is "an elderly man with a poor memory."
We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him-by then a former president well into his eighties-of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.
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Hur cited Bidenās 2017 conversations with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer, which Hur described as āpainfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.ā
āIn his interview with our office, Mr. Bidenās memory was worse,ā Hur wrote.
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