(Arkansas Online) Hunter Biden must appear in all court hearings concerning his Arkansas paternity case, including one scheduled for May 1, Independence County Circuit Judge Holly Meyer ruled Monday.
Meyer expressed frustration during a Zoom hearing Monday with attorneys for Biden and Lunden Roberts.
“From now on … I want both of your clients at every hearing I conduct,” Meyer said. “I will no longer allow us to excuse clients … because it is interfering with the progress of litigation, which is taking way too long to get over simple points.”
Meyer made the comments after Brent Langdon, who represents Biden in the paternity case, mentioned a laptop computer that Biden reportedly left at a repair shop.
Langdon said Garrett Ziegler, a potential expert witness in the case, professes to be an expert on the contents of the laptop, which reportedly contains some income-tax records.
“There has never been, to my knowledge, an acknowledgment that this so-called laptop — he continuously calls it Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop …” Langdon began.
“Well, let’s clear that issue up right now,” said Meyer. “Is it your client’s laptop or not?”
“Your honor, I’m not involved in all of that stuff,” said Langdon. “It’s not my client’s laptop as far as I know.”
Meyer said she holds clients to what their attorneys say in court.
“Is it your client’s position, you’re representing to this court, that it is not his laptop?” the judge asked.
“Your honor, I am not in a position to even begin to answer that question,” Langdon said.
Meyer denied to issue a restraining order requested by Langdon.
