Opening statements are set to begin today after the jurors - six men and six women plus four women serving as alternates - were instructed by Judge Maryellen Noreika not to talk or read about the case.
One juror who used to play squash with the late Beau Biden was dismissed as he said he couldn’t be impartial. A gun owner with previous convictions was removed from the process after he said he would not be able to be impartial in a case regarding someone who was prohibited from owning a gun for something they did in their past.
The son of president Joe Biden stands accused of having bought a handgun on 12 October 2018 while being an active user of crack cocaine. The prosecutors will be relying on Biden’s memoir to make the case that he was a drug user when he bought the firearm at StarQuest Shooters & Survival Supply in Wilmington. While Biden didn’t mention buying a firearm in his memoir Beautiful Things, he did outline his drug use. Prosecutors have called the book “incriminating”.
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