Biden's defense lawyer suggested to jurors that the gun charges against the president's son are too severe.
Biden’s defense lawyer suggested to jurors that the gun charges against the president’s son are too severe.WILMINGTON, Delaware — Prosecutors at Hunter Biden’s trial on gun-related charges urged jurors Tuesday not to show sympathy or favoritism for him because he happens to be the son of President Joe Biden, while the defense suggested the case was belatedly charged and overblown.
“Addiction may not be a choice, but lying and buying a gun is a choice,” Hines told the jury of six men and six women. On Tuesday, Lowell said of the gun purchasing form at the heart of Biden’s case: “It most clearly uses the word ‘are.’ … It does not say, ‘Have you ever been?’ It does not say, ‘Have you ever used?’”
Lowell also previewed other arguments to the jury, including that the gun was an impulse buy while Biden was getting a new cell phone nearby, that therefore he might have not been paying much attention to the form and that the store’s employees were rushing him. The defense attorney also said Biden wasn’t using drugs when he purchased the gun and kept it for 11 days before his brother’s ex-wife, Hallie Biden, whom Hunter was in a relationship with at the time, found it and threw it away.
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