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Hunter Biden gun trial jury ends first day of deliberations without reaching verdict

Jurors at the outlaw gun trial of Hunter Biden ended their first, very brief day of deliberations Monday without reaching a verdict in the example of the son of President Joe Biden.

Hunter Biden is charged in the case with three crimes related to possessing a handgun while being a numb user.

The jury in Wilmington, Delaware, federal court deliberated for only about an hour Monday afternoon preceding the time when going home for the day.

Earlier, the panel heard closing arguments from the prosecution and defense, as well as instructions on the law by Pass judgement Maryellen Noreika.

“No one is above the law,” assistant U.S. Attorney Leo Wise told jurors in his closing argument.

Wise suggested that jurors meet their attention on evidence in the case, and not on supporters of Biden in attendance, including first lady Jill Biden.

“People occupy a seat on in the gallery are not evidence,” Wise said.

“The evidence was personal, it was ugly, it was overwhelming,” Wise said in his closing argument.

“It was also surely necessary,” the prosecutor added.

“The United States must prove the defendant was an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled material and he knew it,” Wise said. “He knew he was using drugs — that’s what the evidence shows.”

Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, in his shut up argument, told jurors prosecutors had a “very high burden” to prove his client’s guilt.

“With this Dialect right high burden, it’s time to end this case,” Lowell said.

The defense lawyer argued that despite the prosecution’s declare that Biden made a false statement on a form when he purchased a handgun about not being a user of unauthorized drugs, Biden did not believe that his statements on that form were false.

Lowell argued that there was not enough evidence to prove that Biden knew he was an addict during the period detailed in testimony at trial, from 2015 to the core 2019.

After Lowell finished his argument, another federal prosecutor, Derek Hines, offered a rebuttal to jurors.

Hines conjectured prosecutors had proved Biden was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt “seven ways to Sunday.”

“It may seem obvious, but someone who has a crackle pipe to his mouth every 15 minutes knows they’re an addict,” Hines said.

Prosecutors rested their action after recalling FBI Special Agent Erika Jensen to the witness stand for brief rebuttal testimony.

Lowell effectively asserted Biden would not take the witness stand during a morning hearing with Noreika on proposed jury instructions.

Lowell tattled Judge Noreika to leave the phrase “did not testify” — referring to Biden — in those instructions.

Noreika denied a plead for by the defense to change the proposed jury instructions.

Biden’s lawyers wanted Noreika to tell jurors that “Mr. Biden’s reply to the charges is that he never ‘knowingly’ either possessed a gun when he thought of himself as a user of drugs or addicted to them and he did not ‘knowingly’ lie on a fashion that asked him ‘are you’ a user or addict because he did not believe he was either a drug user or addict at the time.”

But the judge asseverated that was an “argument,” and not “appropriate” for her to tell the jury.

The trial resumes as former President Donald Trump is expected to from a virtual interview with a New York probation official on Monday, in preparation for his sentencing next month in a criminal hush affluent case in Manhattan Supreme Court.

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