Protection legal professional Abbe Lowell sought to enter sure textual content messages between Hallie Biden and Hunter Biden into proof, complicated the jury and others in courtroom.
Lowell and the protection staff are attempting to introduce some new texts into proof. Leo Smart and the prosecution staff are complaining as a result of they solely bought discover about these texts at 11:07 p.m. final evening, and so they haven’t had time to evaluation them, and don’t know the supply, apart from they got here from the 18,000 pages value of knowledge from the laptop computer.
It appears Lowell and his staff thought the federal government had every thing and is aware of the place every thing is, in the case of the laptop computer. Smart defined that’s not the case, the info goes by way of a filter staff, and it’s attainable that the protection staff has texts that the federal government has not even seen but.
Smart needs to know the place these texts are within the laptop computer. Choose Noreika peppered the protection with questions on this earlier than the jury got here on this morning. That course of went on for practically half-hour. Lowell and his staff are scrambling to get that info to the prosecution, however they mentioned they received’t have it at this time and Choose Noreika shouldn’t be ready on something to maintain the case shifting ahead.
Throughout his cross-examination of Hallie, Lowell tried to counsel that Hunter was mendacity to Hallie when he mentioned on October 13, 2018, (the day after he purchased the gun) that he was behind Blue Rocks Stadium “ready for a vendor named Mookie…” and the subsequent day when he texted Hallie that he was “sleeping on a automotive smoking crack…”
Lowell launched the texts from Hallie that preceded each of these texts. On the thirteenth, Hallie texted Hunter – Why received’t you reply my calls? The place are you? Are you with somebody? Hunter replied with the now notorious textual content about ready for the drug vendor named Mookie.
Did you assume he was with a vendor or a girl, Lowell requested. “A lady,” replied Hallie.
Have you learnt if he was there? “I don’t,” she mentioned.
On October 14, 2018, Hallie texted Hunter: I referred to as you “500 occasions” and also you don’t reply. “Apply what you preach.” Hunter replied with one other now notorious textual content that claimed he was sleeping on a automotive smoking crack.
You haven’t any concept if he was really there, requested Lowell. “Right,” Hallie answered.
Lowell sought to counsel that Hunter was mendacity to Hallie and that he wasn’t really smoking crack on both of these days, and due to this fact perhaps wasn’t “addicted” to crack cocaine when he purchased the gun on October 12, 2018.
Throughout cross-examination underneath questioning by the protection, Hallie appeared confused after Lowell handed her a binder of texts to and from Hunter. Hallie was to solely look at the binder if she couldn’t recall a selected query Lowell requested her about her exchanges with Hunter again in 2018. She generally appeared on the binder with out being instructed to take action.
When answering Lowell, she usually appeared hesitant to reply – barely shaking her head no whereas talking. The choose jumped in to clarify the authorized course of.
Hallie was uncertain when she ought to have a look at the binder. When Lowell directed her to have a look at the binder, he advised her the flawed row quantity at the very least twice, compounding the confusion.
The choose rolled her eyes at Lowell at one level, when he requested if he may learn in one in every of Hallie’s texts.
Fox Information’ Emma Colton and Jake Gibson contributed to this replace.
