Hunter Biden gun trial live updates

Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden arrive at the federal court for his trial on criminal gun charges, in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 10, 2024.Â

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This is developing news and will be updated throughout the day.

Jurors at the criminal gun trial of Hunter Biden will hear closing arguments Monday afternoon after lawyers said that the son of President Joe Biden will not testify in Wilmington, Delaware, federal court.

Prosecutors rested their case after re-calling FBI Special Agent Erika Jensen to the witness stand for brief rebuttal testimony.

The jury is expected to begin deliberating Biden’s fate by afternoon, after getting final instructions from Judge Maryellen Noreika.

Biden is charged with three crimes related to possessing a handgun while being a drug user.

Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell effectively said he would not take the witness stand during a morning hearing with Noreika on proposed jury instructions.

Lowell told Noreika to leave the phrase “did not testify” â referring to Biden â in those instructions.

Noreika denied a request by the defense to change the proposed jury instructions.

Biden’s lawyers wanted Noreika to tell jurors that “Mr. Biden’s response to the charges is that he never ‘knowingly’ either possessed a gun when he thought of himself as a user of drugs or addicted to them and he did not ‘knowingly’ lie on a form that asked him ‘are you’ a user or addict because he did not believe he was either a drug user or addict at the time.”

But the judge said that was an “argument,” and not “appropriate” for her to tell the jury

The trial resumes as former President Donald Trump is expected to have a virtual interview with a New York probation official on Monday, in preparation for his sentencing next month in a criminal hush money case in Manhattan Supreme Court.