Watch dwell as testimony in Hunter Biden’s legal trial set to start

Watch dwell as Hunter Biden’s legal trial on gun costs begins in earnest on Tuesday 4 June with opening statements and probably lurid testimony about drug use from his autobiography and cellphone messages that prosecutors say incriminate president Joe Biden’s son.

The 54-year-old is accused of failing to reveal his use of unlawful medicine when he purchased a Colt Cobra .38-caliber revolver and of illegally possessing the weapon for 11 days in October 2018.

He has pleaded not responsible to the three felony costs.

Hunter Biden is the primary little one of a sitting president to be criminally tried.

The trial is anticipated to centre on his years-long crack cocaine use and habit, which he has mentioned publicly and which was a distinguished a part of his 2021 autobiography Lovely Issues.

He instructed US District Choose Maryellen Noreika at a listening to final yr that he has been sober for the reason that center of 2019.

Prosecutors will search to show that Hunter Biden knew he was mendacity when he ticked the field “no” subsequent to a query on a federal gun buy kind asking if he was an illegal person of a managed substance.