Opening statements are expected to begin on Tuesday. One juror who used to play squash with the late Beau Biden was dismissed as he said he couldn’t be impartial.
A gun owner with previous convictions was removed from the process after he said he would not be able to be impartial in a case regarding someone who was prohibited from owning a gun for something they did in their past.
The son of President Joe Biden stands accused of having bought a handgun on 12 October 2018 while being an active user of crack cocaine.
The prosecutors will be relying on Biden’s memoir to make the case that he was a drug user when he bought the firearm at StarQuest Shooters & Survival Supply in Wilmington.
While Biden didn’t mention buying a firearm in his memoir Beautiful Things, he did outline his drug use. Prosecutors have called the book “incriminating.”