(24 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wilmington, Delaware – 24 May 2024
1. Hunter Biden and his attorneys exit vehicle and walking toward court
STORYLINE:
Hunter Biden is back in court on Friday for the final hearing before he’s expected to stand trial on federal firearms charges in Delaware as his father’s reelection campaign unfolds.
President Joe Biden’s son didn’t speak to reporters as he followed his lawyers into the Wilmington courthouse.
He’s charged with lying about his drug use in October 2018 on a form to buy a gun that he kept for about 11 days in Delaware.
He has acknowledged an addiction to crack cocaine during that period, but his lawyers have said he didn’t break the law and the case is politically motivated.
The two sides have been arguing in court documents about evidence in the case, including contents from a laptop that he allegedly dropped off at a Delaware repair shop.
Defense attorneys question the authenticity of the laptop’s data in court documents, but prosecutors say that there’s no evidence the data has been compromised and that a drawn-out fight over it at trial would be a waste of time.
The laptop has been the source of controversy for years after Republicans accessed and disseminated personal data from it.
Prosecutors also plan to show jurors portions of his 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things,” in which he detailed his struggle with alcoholism and drug abuse following the 2015 death of his older brother, Beau, of brain cancer at age 46.
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