The widow of Hunter Biden's brother testified in courtroom in the present day that she discovered crack cocaine and a revolver in his truck, bolstering the indictment towards him.
The 54-year-old son of US President Joe Biden is accused of unlawful gun possession when he was nonetheless a drug addict. He’s the primary youngster of a sitting president to be prosecuted in the USA.
Jurors heard testimony this week from witnesses, together with Hunter Biden's ex-wife and a former companion, about his previous drug habit, which he has publicly admitted.
Hallie Biden, the widow of Beau Biden — Hunter's brother, who died in 2015 after a battle with most cancers — testified that she typically cleaned Hunter Biden's truck in search of medication in an effort to assist him recuperate.
He was smoking crack
He instructed jurors he had discovered proof of crack smoking, together with small quantities and paraphernalia, in addition to a 38-gauge Colt Cobra revolver. She feared that both she or her youngsters could possibly be injured by the gun. “I panicked and needed to do away with it,” Hallie Biden testified, including that she threw it in a trash can exterior a grocery retailer. Halle has additionally mentioned she was romantically concerned with Hunter in late 2015 or early 2016.
For his half, Hunter Biden insists he’s harmless. Protection legal professional Abby Lowell emphasised that his shopper was not utilizing medication when he purchased the gun in October 2018, and added that he didn’t attempt to deceive the authorities as a result of he didn’t contemplate himself a drug addict on the time.
If convicted, Hunter Biden faces as much as 25 years in jail.
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