Hunter Biden will stand trial next week on gun-related charges just as the GOP’s effort to untangle his web of foreign moneymaking fizzles out. While the political will to impeach President Joe Biden over any involvement in his family’s influence peddling has all but disappeared, the belief that the Justice Department gave Hunter Biden favorable treatment has not. In this series, thewill look at where the saga stands on the eve of his first trial.
Barring parties reaching an eleventh-hour plea deal or Biden successfully convincing the judge to grant a late-stage trial postponement, the trial will begin with jury selection on Monday. Judge Maryellen Noreika, who is presiding over the case, estimated the trial could last up to two weeks.Prosecutors revealed this year that after Biden was charged last September, investigators tested white residue they found on his leather gun pouch and that the substance was cocaine.
“The evidence will be overwhelming that he was a drug user and addict and that he was therefore not honest when he completed the form to purchase the firearm,” former U.S. Attorney John Fishwick of Virginia predicted to the“Although folks are sympathetic to addiction, it will be difficult for Hunter Biden to argue he did not know what he was doing when he completed the form to purchase a firearm.”
“I was sleeping on a car smoking crack on 4th Street and Rodney,” Biden wrote in one message on Oct. 14, 2018, according to prosecutors.Additionally, prosecutors have found that some of the best firsthand witnesses to Biden’s addiction battles are his past love interests.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre addressed the accusation in a press conference, saying the visit was because of the upcoming anniversary of Beau Biden’s death and unrelated to her anticipated testimony.Hunter Biden sought to dismiss his charges in the lead-up to the trial, saying the accusation that he illegally possessed a gun while addicted to drugs was incompatible with the Second Amendment.
Hunter Biden’s case is taking place in the aftermath of a “sea change” in gun regulation, as his attorneys put it. The change can largely be attributed to, a Supreme Court decision in June 2022 that relaxed gun regulations and effectively opened the door for defendants such as Hunter Biden to claim they were lawfully armed despite their controversial circumstances.
If Hunter Biden is convicted, he could raise his claim with an appellate court that his charges were unconstitutional.
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