Jury begins deliberations in Hunter Biden’s trial on federal gun charges

The members of the jury in the trial against Hunter Biden began deliberating Monday on whether the president’s son is guilty of federal firearms charges for a handgun he bought in 2018 when prosecutors say he was addicted to crack cocaine.

The president’s son is accused of three serious crimes in the case that has exposed some of the darkest moments of his past.

Prosecutors have used testimony from former romantic partners, personal text messages and photographs in which Hunter Biden is seen wearing drug paraphernalia or partially naked to argue that he broke the law.

“No one is above the law,” prosecutor Leo Wise told jurors in his closing arguments as first lady Jill Biden watched from the front row of the courtroom in Wilmington, Delaware.

The jurors deliberated for less than an hour before calling it a day. Deliberations are scheduled to resume Tuesday morning.

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