President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, withdrew his motion for a new trial Tuesday after a jury convicted him last month on federal gun charges.

The 54-year-old first son asked U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika last month for a new trial on the grounds that the federal court in Delaware did not have jurisdiction over his case. The argument centered on the claim that appeals Hunter Biden had filed ahead of his trial with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had not been fully addressed.

Special counsel David Weiss recently told the court that the first son’s motion is “meritless,” saying the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit had given Noreika the green light to try the first son and that the defense counsel overlooked this matter.

“[Hunter Biden’s] motion is based on his belief that prior to his trial, the Third Circuit was required to issue a formal mandate and therefore this Court somehow lacked jurisdiction even though the Third Circuit had held that it did not have jurisdiction,” prosecutors with Weiss’s office said in a July 8 court filings.

“The defendant’s motion is meritless and is based on his apparent misunderstanding of appellate practice and his failure to read the Third Circuit’s Orders, issued before trial, which clearly stated ‘in Lieu of Mandate,'” the special counsel’s office added.

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Hunter Biden became the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a felony on June 11 after a jury found him guilty on three counts related to his lying about illegal drug use when he purchased a handgun in 2018.

The younger Biden has denied wrongdoing, and his legal team, led by Abbe Lowell, has said he will appeal the conviction.