Hunter Biden trial live updates: First son’s federal gun charges case begins with jury selection

Hunter Biden’s trial on federal gun charges began with jury selection in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday.

The son of President Joe Biden stands accused of having bought a handgun on 12 October 2018 while being an active user of crack cocaine.

The prosecutors will be relying on Biden’s memoir to make the case that he was a drug user when he bought a handgun at StarQuest Shooters & Survival Supply in Wilmington on 12 October 2018.

While Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, didn’t mention buying a firearm in his memoir Beautiful Things, he did outline his drug use. Prosecutors have called the book “incriminating.”

The prosecution has noted that they possibly plan on attempting to prove that Biden used illegal drugs by pointing to texts he sent at the time.

A number of those text messages came from an iCloud account they got access to via a subpoena and others were sourced from a laptop that Biden is reported to have left at a repair shop and never returned to collect.

The jury selection process began with prospective jurors filling out a questionnaire. The judge then asked some follow-up questions to those who answered yes to some of the questions.

The questions for the jurors so far have been about their personal schedules, opinions on gun ownership, and any possible history of drug addiction in their families, according to The Washington Post.

A gun owner with previous convictions was removed from the process after he said he would not be able to be impartial in a case regarding someone who was prohibited from owning a gun for something they did in their past.

One potential juror said she feels US gun laws aren’t strong enough, but added that she could be impartial. The lawyers said they were unsure if she should be