using these two women s testimonies to drive home. the point that hunter biden was a regular user all drugs that he was struggling with addiction during the period that he bought this firearm that he should have known that he did not qualify to buy this firearm? since against obviously for him to buy this gun was against the law for on the part of the fence they re trying to sow some doubt she is someone who saw him using drugs, saw there the jury saw pictures of him in the bathtub, a width what appeared to be a crack pipe that s what she said. it was and what the job of abbe lowell for him to do here is to have jurors have at least a little bit of doubt that during that day, that day when he bought the gun, that he was not using drugs or that the prosecution doesn t have any
hunter and december 2017 while working at a gentleman s club. zoe kestan said after he started smoking crack, he was the same charming person. incredibly charming and charismatic. during a 5-day period, kestan said that hunter was smoking crack every 20 minutes and that his demeanor would not change when he was high. even that hunter would give drug dealers his atm card and his pin code. kestan, hunter s ex-wife, when she left the courthouse an hour ago, she declined to cipro the prosecution still trying to build a case of of hunter abusing drugs. she found a crack pipe in july of 2015 but said she had been suspicious before then since hunter had been kicked out of the navy for testing positive for cocaine. unlike kestan, hunter was angry when he was using drugs and not himself. she said she would check the cars before allowing their daughters to use them to make sure they weren t driving with drugs on them.
period was that period of time where he checked a box on a federal form that allowed him to purchase a gun that said he was not an active drug user. what the defense did is trying to rebut is it s impossible to get into his state of mind when he checked that box, and that he very well could have believed he was in a period of recovery when he went to buy that gun and therefore was not in violation of the law. but bringing out these witnesses, these people with intimate knowledge of what his past was like during that period of time, his ex-wife who first found a crack pipe in their house. that s how she discovered his drug use, and the girlfriend, where she witnessed him over and over again, smoking crack, buying drugs. at times, he would smoke crack every 20 minutes. they re demonstrating even during those periods of time where he tried to get clean, he would quickly relapse. it s hard to believe when he checked that box he didn t know what his state of mind was like
with him. describe how she found drugs and paraphernalia in hunters car on multiple occasions, including in 2018? that s the year that prosecutors say he illegally purchased just a gun while being addicted to drugs. let s bring in cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid, who has been following the action inside court. so paula, did the jury react at all to these two women s testimonies? yeah boris after kind of a slow start to the morning, the jurors were sitting up, leaning in and hanging on every word from these women. now, his ex-wife was only on the stand of briefly, she talks about the first time that she found a crack pipe in their family home back in 2015 she also talked about how she would search his his car or for any drugs or drug paraphernalia before their children would use it. but on cross-examination, she also said, look, she wasn t sure what he was doing with his life in 2018. by that point, they were divorced and of course 2018, that s the year that he boug
if it s another head, he wants get one that truly fits. you go into one of the kind gift has shown, he s number one etsy has it sometimes the best thing you can do with intelligence is shared with your adversary. he and his secret is betrayed itself, bullet to the back of the hand, secrets and spies, a nuclear gain sunday at ten on cnn hunter biden s ex-wife takes the stand as the prosecution makes their case against the president s son on federal gun charges, riveting testimony about the first time she realized that he was using drugs and found a crack pipe in their home and while the