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Reaction. >> laura: convicted of a bad book. >> this comes down to a check on a form of a very clear question and so if you are going to apply the evidence and the law the case ended 30 seconds after it began. that's the telling issue. why wouldn't hunter biden plead guilty to avoid or at least reduce the chances of his going to jail when he doesn't have a plausible answer here. it may be a jury nullification. they are hoping the jury will be sympathetic over his struggle with addiction and his book really has very powerful sections. they are quite moving where he talks about how this took ove...

Stay out of trouble for a couple of years. nothing to see here. and then it's done, particularly when the gun is not been involved in any other offense. right. because what prosecutors tried to do and their discretion is be equitable, but we know we are in bizarro times in terms of your question, i think there's a couple of ways to go. the first thing is with respect to moving come forward to the actual forums, or they authentic. did he fill out the forms and itself? did he have any other assistance in so doing with respect to his addiction as part of that addiction that he no, he was addicted...

Do i mean in english? jurors look at things and things have to make sense to them. and sometimes people have sympathetic not to be clear, you can get a lot of information out as it relates to mr. hunter biden three who family members, and those people, you know, the witness list, ex-wives, et cetera. will tell you what he's gone through. the dark moments he had the experiences he was enduring at that particular time. i think that'll be mitigation, but in an instance like this, yes, the problem has he'd be salvaged. he has a book out there speaking about addiction, right? there are certain thin...

Be the most compelling prosecutorial evidence. >> dave, do you think hunter biden might testify? >> oh, that's the big question. you know, i think he will because i think he can reach the jurors as a human being, as someone who has faced darkness and come out on the other side. i think he wants to humanize himself in front of the jury. and if your defense is going to be jury nullification, that's when you have to do. you got to put on a sympathetic figure on the stand and let him look the jurors in the eye and plead to them as humans and not as just anonymous jurors who are going to decide his...

Mount besides the very sympathetic view of hunter biden that i think will try to be a jury nullification implicit defense in this case. >> yeah, let's talk more about that, dave, because jurors could be sympathetic to someone who has struggled with addiction, particularly someone who's been so open about it. how do lawyers handle that? >> i agree with michael, i think this is a pretty cut and dry case, perhaps the best chance that hunter biden has is through what's called jury nullification. that's where you get to the sympathies of the jury, and you have just one juror perhaps that says i can...