Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, found guilty of three serious weapons charges

WASHINGTON (apro).-A qualifying jury unanimously found Hunter Biden, son of the president of the United States, guilty of three charges for the illegal purchase of a firearm, who could be sentenced to 25 years in prison and pay a fine of 750 thousand dollars.

The jury made up of ordinary citizens of Wilmington, Delaware, where the trial was held, found the president’s son responsible for lying on the federal application to purchase a firearm, an event that occurred in 2018.

Hunter’s chances of going to jail are latent, although a civil offense like the one he incurred can also be punished by a fine and community service under surveillance, because in this case he did not use the firearm he acquired under false pretenses.

Hunter was found guilty after during the trial, members of his immediate family, his ex-wife, ex-girlfriends and other people romantically related to him, testified that in 2018 he continued to use drugs (cocaine) and denied this in the application that filled to get the firearm.

Hunter’s case has been pointed out as a political vendetta because it occurs a few months before the presidential election on November 5, and weeks after former President Donald Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, was found guilty in New York of 34 crimes of concealment. his relationship with a pornographic actress.

Prior to the unanimous verdict against his son, President Biden has said that once the sentence is handed down, he will do nothing to commute the punishment of his son.

Judge Maryllen Noreika, in charge of the process, did not determine a date for the sentencing but said that it will possibly occur in the month of October; a few days before the presidential elections.

In Los Angeles, California, Hunter faces another federal charge of tax fraud, according to documents prepared against him by the special prosecutor in the case, David Weiss.

Federal law prohibits a person addicted to drugs from possessing firearms of any kind, and in the paperwork Hunter filled out to purchase one in 2018, he lied about his crack and cocaine habit, as witnesses claimed at trial. .