Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, and his spouse Melissa Cohen Biden arrive at the federal court docket for his demo on felony gun rates, in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 10, 2024.
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The felony gun demo of Hunter Biden resumed Monday morning with his attorneys revealing that the son of President Joe Biden will not testify in Wilmington, Delaware, federal courtroom.
The conclusion sets the stage for closing arguments to start out after jurors return at 9 a.m. ET. The jury could start out deliberating Biden’s destiny by afternoon.
Biden is charged with three crimes linked to possessing a handgun while staying a drug consumer.
Biden’s law firm Abbe Lowell successfully said he would not consider the witness stand during a morning hearing with Decide Maryellen Noreika on proposed jury instructions.
Lowell advised Noreika to leave the phrase “did not testify” — referring to Biden — in those people directions.
Noreika denied a request by the defense to transform the proposed jury recommendations.
Biden’s legal professionals desired Noreika to convey to jurors that “Mr. Biden’s reaction to the prices is that he never ever ‘knowingly’ possibly possessed a gun when he considered of himself as a user of medication or addicted to them and he did not ‘knowingly’ lie on a type that questioned him ‘are you’ a person or addict for the reason that he did not believe he was both a drug user or addict at the time.”
But the choose stated that was an “argument,” and not “proper” for her to tell the jury
The trial resumes as previous President Donald Trump is envisioned to have a digital job interview with a New York probation formal on Monday, in preparing for his sentencing up coming month in a criminal hush dollars circumstance in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Trump was convicted past thirty day period of 34 felony counts of falsifying small business information related to a payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels soon in advance of the 2016 election.
The Republican is set to deal with Hunter Biden’s father in November’s presidential election.
President Biden stated very last 7 days that he will not pardon his son if Hunter Biden is convicted in the situation, one of two prison cases the youthful Biden faces.
Hunter Biden is scheduled to go on demo later on this year in Los Angeles federal court on prison tax fees.