Live updates: Hunter Biden gun trial (2024)

So far, 34 potential jurors have qualified for the jury pool, with two more needed to advance to the next step.

After they have established that pool of 36, both sides will get a chance to use “strikes” to block a few people of their choosing from serving on the panel. They don’t need to provide a reason for these strikes.

The final panel will include 12 sworn jurors and four alternates.

All signs point to opening statementshappening on Tuesday morning.The judge has indicated that this is her expectation.

No cameras are allowed inside the Delaware courtroom where Hunter Biden's trial is underway, but sketch artist Bill Hennessy captured the scene.

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Both sides agreed to dismiss a Donald Trump critic who expressed support for banning all guns. She said she wanted the US to have stricter gun laws, to make it harder to “kill children at schools” and rapid-fire weapons that can “kill a lot of people at once.”

After Trump won in 2016, she joined a “resistance” group, and later supported Democratic candidates in the 2018 and 2022 midterms.

Another juror was excused from the jury pool after he said he couldn’t promise to judge the case fairly. The juror was a Fox News and Newsmax viewer. Both right-wing networks have extensively covered Hunter Biden’s scandals and legal woes over the years.

Judge Noreika thanked the man for being honest about his bias.

At least 25 people have been qualified to serve on the Hunter Biden jury so far.

The selection process is still underway, and both sides can still “strike” some of the members of the pool, which will eventually be narrowed down to 12 jurors and 4 alternates.

On Capitol Hill, Democrats are dismissing attempts to compare Hunter Biden’s trial with former President Donald Trump’s conviction last week.

“Hunter Biden is not running for president. President Donald Trump's running for president," said Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland. He also noted that Democrats have not rushed to Hunter Biden’s defense in this criminal case, or alleged that the trial is a “sham” in the way that Republicans did with the Trump trial.

“They do that because of the extraordinary cognitive dissonance that a party – which claims to be representing religious piety – has wrapped itself around in an adjudicated sexual assailant and fraudster who just got convicted by a jury of his peers for paying $130,000 in hush money to a p*rn star right after his fifth child was born. That's where their party is.”

Rep. Robert Garcia of California agreed: “He’s not the president of the United States, he’s not a public figure.

"So Hunter Biden should be held accountable for whatever he’s done,” he said, adding that this “is not comparable to the multiple crimes that clearly Donald Trump has committed.”

Pressed on how Hunter’s trial could affect his father’s chances in November, Garcia replied, “I think the President loves his son. And I think that we all agree that Hunter’s made some mistakes, and he’s got to be held accountable for those. I don't think they have anything to do with his election for president.”

A retiree who is a potential juror in Hunter Biden’s trial said he heard about Hunter Biden’s attempted plea deal – which fell apart at the same courthouse as the current trial.

He is eligible to serve on the jury, as neither side objected.

The potential juror said one of his nephews got addicted to drugs after being prescribed opioids after a football accident.

“He was a mess ... better now,” he said.

A House Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden and his family has stalled following missteps and a lack of clear consensus on what a successful conclusion would look like.

The inquiry has yet to produce evidence that the president received any financial benefit from his son’s business dealings. Hunter Biden appeared for a closed-door deposition earlier this year and insisted that his father was not involved.

He also accused Republicans of pursuing a “baseless and destructive political charade,” charging that the impeachment investigation was built on an “entire partisan house of cards on lies.”

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, a Kentucky lawmaker leading the probe, and his fellow top Republicans have been caught between the far-right wing’s early demands for impeachment and skeptical Republicans in vulnerable districts. Meanwhile, Democrats have accused their GOP colleagues of doing former President Donald Trump’s bidding.

CNN’s Annie Grayer, Melanie Zanona, Jeremy Herb, and Paula Reid contributed to this report.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers signaled that they’ll strike from the jury pool 23-year retired veteran of the Wilmington Police Department who thinks Trump, but not Democrats, is a victim of political prosecution.

He said Trump’s NY trial and “the dossier” -- referring to the Trump-Russia dossier from 2016 – made him believe that prosecutors pursue some cases for political reasons.

Hunter Biden lawyer Abbe Lowell asked the potential juror if Democrats are ever plagued by this, but the juror said he wasn’t aware of it happening. Lowell later told the juror that he’d use one of his strikes against the man.

The man also said he “recently” donated to the Republican National Committee and that he previously supported a candidate who ran against Hunter’s late brother, Beau, when Beau was the Delaware Attorney General.

One man was excused from the jury pool after saying that the Donald Trump trial in New York made him think prosecutors charge cases based on politics.He had also said he might not be able to judge the Hunter Biden case fairly because some of his loved ones are struggling with addiction.

A woman in the jury pool told the judge thatshe is a bartender and has periodically served Hunter’s uncle at the bar.She is still currently eligible to serve on the panel, whichhasn’tbeen seated yet.

Both sides agreed that sheshouldn’tbe eligible to serve on the case.