Joe Biden's son convicted for illegal gun purchase

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U.S. President Joe Biden's son was convicted of illegal gun purchases by a federal court in Delaware. He is the first son of a sitting U.S. president to be convicted of criminal charges. teleSUR

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00:00In the United States, the 12-member jury found Hunter Biden guilty of three federal

00:04gun possession charges, the first criminal conviction against the son of a sitting president.

00:10President Joe Biden's son was convicted in a Delaware court after nearly three hours of

00:15deliberation regarding the three felony counts that alleged he lied about his illicit drug use

00:22when obtaining a firearm in 2018, then illegally possessed it for 11 days.

00:28In the trial, which lasted just over a week, his crack addiction came to light,

00:33and at the closing argument stage on Sunday, prosecutors argued that Hunter Biden's drug

00:39use began years before the gun acquisition and continued for months afterwards.

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