Jury begins deliberations in Hunter Biden trial

WILMINGTON, Delaware — A judge instructed the jury in Hunter Biden‘s gun trial to begin deliberating late Monday afternoon after prosecutors and the first son’s defense team delivered their closing arguments.

The jury can take as much time as it needs, whether it be minutes, hours, or even days, to decide whether the first son committed the three felony charges he is facing related to a 2018 gun purchase.

Special counsel David Weiss has alleged Biden, a recovering drug and alcohol addict, lied on a federal form about his use of crack cocaine to purchase a revolver on Oct. 12 that year. Weiss also alleged Biden unlawfully kept the gun for 11 days while he was a drug user or addict.

During closing arguments, prosecutors told jurors to use their “common sense,” based on the mountain of evidence they presented during the six-day trial that Biden was using drugs from 2015 through early 2019, to conclude that he was a drug user around the time of the gun purchase.

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Judge Maryellen Noreika, a Trump appointee, decided ahead of the trial that prosecutors would not need to prove Biden was on drugs at the exact time he filled out the form and allegedly lied on it. Rather, prosecutors needed only to prove that he was on drugs “recently enough” to indicate that he was “actively engaged in such conduct,” Leo Wise, a government prosecutor, pointed out during his closing argument.

The form asked, “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, [controlled substances]?”

This story is developing.