WILMINGTON, Del. – Hunter Biden’s trial on federal gun charges is now in the hands of the jury of 12 Delaware residents who will decide whether the president’s son illegally bought and owned a revolver while he was an unlawful drug user or addict.
Biden, 54, faces a maximum of 25 years in prison if convicted of all three felony charges: lying on a federal screening form, lying to a gun dealer and possessing the gun. But first-time offenders on non-violent charges are typically given shorter sentences. The trial is historic because Biden is the first child of a sitting president to be tried for a crime.
Biden has acknowledged a four-year addiction to crack cocaine in his book “Beautiful Things.” But his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, argued he didn’t “knowingly” lie because he had recently completed a rehabilitation program and wasn’t using drugs at the time he bought the gun in October 2018.
