the fate of President Joe Biden's son
Hunter is now in the hands of the jury
Hunter Biden faces a potential 25-year
jail sentence if found guilty of three
gun charges joining us with the details
is Sky News Washington correspondent
Analise Nelson anelise could the first
son be going to
jail well look these are really serious
charges and it's now all in the hands of
the jury they've been deliberating this
afternoon but have now gone for the day
and will return tomorrow and so it's
anyone's guess how long that will take
but there has been a lot of unseemly
evidence heard in this federal court in
Delaware around the first son now what
we've heard in particular is around his
drug addiction this has been well
publicized not least in his own Memoir
but the issue here is whether he was
addicted to drugs knowingly addicted to
drugs and using drugs when he purchased
this firearm the first two charges
relate to how he filled out this full
whether he was knowingly using drugs at
the time or if the weeks months around
that time is enough to say that he
wasn't using drugs he didn't take the
stand as is his right any defendant
doesn't have to take the stand in their
own defense it's always up to the
prosecution to make that case but really
when you come down to the facts of this
case it's going to be a tricky one for
the jury to try to find anything else
don't forget that this is something that
they already tried to initiate a plea
deal this was rejected by the court as
being too favorable on the facts for
Hunter Biden so this has been a tough
case for them to defend especially as he
is a Yale trained lawyer it's hard to
say you didn't understand a federal law
form as you were filling it out one of
the major pieces of evidence here has
been from hie Biden now that's his
brother Bo Biden's Widow and then they
started dating and then she also told
the court that she started using crack
cocaine from having dated Hunter so
there is very strong evidence that he
was taking drugs right throughout this
time but this does always come down to
the jury at least one jury member uh has
reportedly been showing quite a lot of
emotion and has said that they had a
close family member who's been addicted
to drugs in the past so it really is a
wait and see for how this all pans out
what we do know is President Biden said
he won't use his presidential pardon
power to Pardon Hunter Biden if he is
convicted and at least thank you