Hunter Biden gun trial stay updates
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, and his spouse Melissa Cohen Biden arrive on the federal courtroom for his trial on legal gun costs, in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 10, 2024.
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The protection rested Monday on the criminal gun trial of Hunter Biden after his legal professionals revealed that the son of President Joe Biden won’t testify in Wilmington, Delaware, federal court.
Prosecutors re-called FBI Particular Agent Erika Jensen to the witness stand for what is anticipated to be temporary rebuttal testimony earlier than closing arguments within the case.
The jury may start deliberating Biden’s destiny by afternoon.
Biden is charged with three crimes associated to possessing a handgun whereas being a drug person.
Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell successfully stated he wouldn’t take the witness stand throughout a morning listening to with Decide Maryellen Noreika on proposed jury directions.
Lowell instructed Noreika to go away the phrase “didn’t testify” — referring to Biden — in these directions.
Noreika denied a request by the protection to vary the proposed jury directions.
Biden’s legal professionals wished Noreika to inform jurors that “Mr. Biden’s response to the costs is that he by no means ‘knowingly’ both possessed a gun when he considered himself as a person of medication or hooked on them and he didn’t ‘knowingly’ lie on a type that requested him ‘are you’ a person or addict as a result of he didn’t consider he was both a drug person or addict on the time.”
However the choose stated that was an “argument,” and never “acceptable” for her to inform the jury
The trial resumes as former President Donald Trump is anticipated to have a digital interview with a New York probation official on Monday, in preparation for his sentencing subsequent month in a legal hush cash case in Manhattan Supreme Court docket.
Trump was convicted final month of 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise information associated to a payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels shortly earlier than the 2016 election.
The Republican is about to face Hunter Biden’s father in November’s presidential election.
President Biden stated final week that he won’t pardon his son if Hunter Biden is convicted within the case, considered one of two legal circumstances the youthful Biden faces.
Hunter Biden is scheduled to go on trial later this yr in Los Angeles federal courtroom on legal tax costs.
