WILMINGTON, Del.– The latest on Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial (always local):
Jurors will resume deliberations in the criminal case against Hunter Biden about a gun he bought in 2018 when prosecutors said he was in the grips of a crack cocaine addiction.
Jurors deliberated for less than an hour Monday afternoon before leaving the federal courthouse in Delaware. They are weighing whether President Joe Biden’s son is guilty of three felonies in the case that pits him against his father’s Justice Department in the middle of the Democratic president’s reelection campaign.
Prosecutors over the past week have used testimony from his ex-wife and former girlfriends, photos of him wearing drug paraphernalia and other sordid evidence to prove that he lied when he checked “no” on the form at the gun store asking whether he “an unlawful user of or addicted to” drugs.
Currently:
– Jurors will resume deliberations in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter
Here’s the latest:
The trial began last week in Delaware federal court, with prosecutors seeking to show that Hunter Biden was addicted and regularly used drugs during the 11-day period he purchased and owned the gun.
Hunter Biden’s defense team tried to show that he did not consider himself an “addict” when he filled out the form, saying he was trying to turn his life around at the time.