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Jurors in Hunter Biden Drug, Gun Law Trial Have Begun Deliberations – Report

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As his father faces an uphill battle in a presidential campaign, HUnter Biden is scheduled to face another trial for which he has been charged with failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes.
Jurors in Delaware have begun deliberating on Hunter Biden’s criminal trial on felony charges related to his efforts to obtain a .38 revolver from a gun shop in 2018 while allegedly battling addiction to crack cocaine. This is the first time that the son of a sitting president has faced a criminal trial.The first son faces three felonies including: false statement in purchasing of a firearm, false statement related to information required to be kept by federal firearms licensed dealer, and possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.According to a recent report from The Guardian, the jurors have heard emotional testimonies from “Hunter Biden’s former romantic partners, read personal text messages and seen photos of him with drug paraphernalia or partially clothed.”One woman who said she met Hunter Biden at a strip club where she worked in 2017 described him smoking crack every 20 minutes or so while she stayed with him at a hotel.The defense for the president’s son tried to show that he did not consider himself an “addict” when he filled out a form to purchase a revolver.

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