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Time he filled out the form had been in rehab for, i think it was about 11 days. that highlights the nebulous nature of this particular subsection of the statute. an unlawful user or addict. what is an addict? yes, its defined by u.s. law, but what does it mean that hunter may have thought, im 11 days clean, im sober, im no longer an addict. that i expect to see as one of the themes of the defense here. >> danny cevallos and ken dilanian, monica alba, thank you very much. well check back and kee...

To a controlled substance and that he possessed the firearm while he was a user or addict to a controlled substance. on the governments side, straightforward. theyll introduce evidence you dont normally have in these cases which are very rarely brought. >> its like his own words in his memoir. >> exactly. most criminal defendants have not written a memoir that the government can mine for statements that are harmful to the defendant. you dont normally have this much evidence of addiction from the...

Supposed to have it or wasnt in the right mind to be able to say, im an addict, i shouldnt have this, right? >> and so thats why i think there was a decision i guess over the week and where the judge said that the defense is a potential witness for the defense, that who would have been an expert witness to testify about the nature im sure of addiction and what knowledge a person who is addicted has, what that means that the judge has said that that person cannot testify. so i think part of what ...

User or an addict. everybody, i think, has friends, family, common experiences with folks who struggle with addiction. i think this case presents kind of a jury nullification. theyre going to be able to see the fair and impartial jury. they did it in the trump case and the manafort case. they did it in the menendez case thats ongoing in new jersey, but i do think when jurors are asked, you know, what they make of the fact that he may have lied about being a drug user on an addict, and whether th...

The time including on the day get that he purchased the gun and then two days later in which hes actually talking to her about using drugs, meeting a drug dealer. and then around the same time this is october 2018, november 2018. hes even saying im an addict thats the charge. the charges if you are addicted to drugs are using drugs and you purchased the weapon, you need to say its showing and you cant get the weapon. but thats not what happened here. so i think thats a mountain of evidence. hes ...

Falsely saying he was not addicted to drugs in order to get a firearm and theres a lot of evidence that, in fact, he was addicted to drugs at that time. one of the issues the defense has telegraphed theyre going to use is the definition of what an addict is and whether or not he should have known what addict means in terms of filling out that form. will: i mean, were used to semantics, you know? the definition finish depends on what your definition of is, is from that forward to the definition o...

Biden will face over the next six months. this case is related to the participant gun or prosecutors alleged that he failed to disclose that but he was an addict at the time he purchased it later on in the year. hes expected to face a separate criminal trial at tax charges, bullet, these were supposed to be resolved with a plea deal that imploded. and its interesting you hear from a hunter bidens defense attorneys, a lot of things you hear from trumps defense attorneys and the ones that, you kno...

Case does the prosecution now so this is the first of two criminal prosecutions that hunter biden will face over the next six months. >> this case is related to the participant gun or prosecutors alleged that he failed to disclose that he was an addict at the time he purchased it later on in the year. hes expected to face a separate criminal trial at tax charges. well, if these were supposed to be resolved with the plea deal, that imploded and its interesting you hear from a hunter bidens defens...

User or addict at the time of when he purchased and possess that gun. its against federal law for a drug user or a drug addict to have a gun. and thats what they will need to prove at this trial, which starts tomorrow. the case is being prosecuted by special counsel, david weiss and 250 jurors from delaware have been summoned, and theyll eventually whittle that down to a panel of 12 and for alternate, so it all starts tomorrow morning. >> and we know what evidenced prosecutors will bring in they...

Gun or possess a gun. so this is expected to be a one or two week trial and it begins tomorrow morning with jury selection. 250 delaware residents who know the biden family very well. his father has been in politics there since 1971 theyve been some into the courthouse and eventually they will whittle that down to a panel of 12 jurors and for alternatives to hear the evidence in this case, which is being put on by special counsel, david weiss alison marshall, just help me understand that. i dont...