Judge Maryellen Noreika sent the jury back to begin deliberations in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial case on Monday afternoon.
Noreika gave the second portion of her final jury instructions to jurors shortly before dismissing them to deliberate.
Biden is accused of lying on a federal firearm form, known as ATF Form 4473, in October 2018 when he ticked a box labeled “No” when asked if he is an unlawful user of a firearm or addicted to controlled substances.
Prosecutor Leo Wise, faced the jury with a PowerPoint behind him and began his closing arguments Monday afternoon.
He started, and referred directly to the Biden family members behind Hunter Biden, on his side of the gallery.
“People sitting in the gallery are not evidence,” he said. Wise appeared to be referring to the Biden family in attendance during the trial, which included the First Lady.
He also reminded them of his colleague, Derek Hines’ remarks in the opening statement, that nobody is above the law.
(a choice, a self-inflicted disease that typically causes harm to others – dumbass)
MSNBC political analyst Molly Jong-Fast ran defense for Hunter Biden in a new column and TV appearance by calling addiction a “disease” and not a “moral failing” as his federal gun trial concludes this week.
“Addiction is a disease,” she wrote on MSNBC. “People who struggle with addiction are sick, not bad. Huge swaths of the country are affected by alcohol and drug addiction that affects not just them, but their family members and people who are even tangentially connected to them — the parents, grandparents and kids and brothers and sisters and acquaintances of the addict.”
“The reason why I wanted to come forward and write about this is because, even though I’ve been sober since I was a teenager, I felt that the disease that Hunter Biden has is the same disease that I have,” Jong-Fast said Monday on “Morning Joe.”