Hunter Biden plans to change his plea to guilty on tax charges brought against him by special counsel David Weiss, his lawyer said in court on Thursday, shocking federal prosecutors.

Abbe Lowell, the First Son’s attorney, said in federal court on Thursday that Biden intends to change his guilty plea and plead guilty. He had initially pleaded not guilty.

Attorney General Leo Wise said: “This is the first time we’ve heard of this.”

A source familiar with the special counsel’s team told Fox News Digital that the case for Hunter Biden is not yet a done deal and that it is currently just an offer that the defense has put on the table.

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According to the US Department of Justice handbook, prosecutors can only accept an Alford plea under the most unusual circumstances…”

In an Alford plea, the defendant acknowledges that the prosecution’s evidence would probably be sufficient for a conviction and therefore accepts the verdict, but maintains his or her innocence.

Hunter Biden, son of President Biden, is seen during the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Monday, August 19, 2024. (Getty Images)

A source familiar with Weiss’ team says Biden’s lawyers and the special counsel’s team are not currently speaking directly and that the special counsel’s team is in internal discussions trying to plan next steps.

The Justice Department in Washington, DC is also trying to assess how and when it might intervene.

The trial began on Thursday in Los Angeles with jury selection.

Weiss charged Biden with three felonies and six misdemeanors related to $1.4 million in owed taxes that have since been paid. Weiss alleged there was a “four-year conspiracy” in which the president’s son failed to pay his federal income taxes while also filing false tax returns.

In the indictment, Weiss alleges that Biden “participated in a four-year conspiracy to fail to pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes for tax years 2016 through 2019, from about January 2017 to about October 15, 2020, and to evade tax assessment for the 2018 tax year by filing false tax returns in about February 2020.”

Weiss said that to “further this plan,” Biden “subverted the payroll and tax withholding process of his own company, Owasco, PC, by siphoning millions” from the company “outside of the payroll and tax withholding process for which it was designed.”

Hunter Biden arrives with his wife Melissa Cohen Biden on June 11, 2024, at the federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was eventually convicted in a gun trial. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Tax trial against Hunter Biden postponed until September

The special counsel alleged that Biden “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle instead of paying his tax bills” and that in 2018 he “stopped paying his outstanding and delinquent taxes for the 2015 tax year.”

Weiss alleged that Biden “willfully failed to pay his taxes for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 on time, despite having the means to pay some or all of those taxes,” and that he “willfully failed to file his tax returns for 2017 and 2018 on time.”

This is the second time this year that Biden has been put on trial on charges stemming from Weiss’ investigation.

President Biden hugs his son Hunter Biden during the Democratic National Convention, Monday, August 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Biden was found In Delaware, he was found guilty on all counts after Weiss charged him with making false statements in the purchase of a firearm, making false statements regarding information required to be kept by a licensed firearm dealer, and one count of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of, or dependent on, a controlled substance.

A sentencing date for these charges has not yet been set. Combined, the maximum prison sentence for all of the charges could be up to 25 years. Each count carries a maximum fine of $250,000 and three years’ probation.

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President Biden has vowed not to pardon his son.