The fourth day of Hunter Biden's trial for federal gun charges has concluded.
Court adjourned for the day around 4:45 p.m. ET. Hunter departed the courthouse at 4:53 p.m. ET.
The prosecution called several more witnesses to the stand Thursday, including Hallie Biden, the widow of Beau Biden and Hunter's ex.
During her testimony, Hallie recounted a June 2018 trip to Los Angeles to meet Hunter at the Roosevelt Hotel, where she used drugs, specifically crack cocaine. She testified that Hunter introduced her to and gave her the drugs. She said she continued using drugs until August 2018, the same month she revisited Hunter at a treatment facility.
Asked about her and Hunter's relationship, Hallie testified that they were romantically involved from late 2015 through 2016 and it was at that time that she learned about Hunter Biden's drug use. Hallie testified that she watched Hunter Biden obtain crack and that his behavior was agitated and high strung.
According to her testimony, Hunter visited Hallie on October 22-23 of 2018. She testified that Hunter came to the house, and that he seemed exhausted. She said that he could’ve been on drugs at the moment. When Hunter went to bed, Hallie decided to clean out his car. She said she had done this before to see if there were any remnants of potential drug use, or alcohol.
When prosecutors asked what she had found, she testified that she found remnants of crack, cocaine, dirty clothes, trash, and the gun.
Prosecutors then pulled out the actual gun that Hunter purchased and brought it to the witness stand. They asked Hallie to identify the firearm, and she said it looked very similar to the gun that she had seen in the car.
Others who took the witness stand Thursday include: Delaware State Police Senior Cpl. Joshua Marley, who responded to the incident at Janssen's Market, the location where Hallie disposed of Hunter's gun; retired Lt. Millard Greer, who offered testimony on how police discovered the gun at the center of the case; and Edward Thomas Banner, the man who recovered Hunter Biden's gun from a dumpster.
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Prosecutors and defense question man who fished Hunter Biden's gun out of dumpster
Edward Thomas Banner, the man who recovered Hunter Biden's gun from a dumpster, took the stand Thursday in court.
Banner, 80, wore a blue suit jacket with a light blue undershirt and glasses to court and had trouble sitting in the witness chair, so Judge Maryellen Noreika helped him. Banner said he served in the Navy for four years, and has been married to his current wife for about 11 years.
Banner had trouble hearing, so prosecutor Derek Hines delivered his questioning next to the witness stand.
Hines asked Banner about his recycling hobby. Banner said he did it to make money, adding "especially now with gas prices."
Banner said he remembered the day when he found the gun, though he didn't remember the exact day.
Surveillance footage played in court showed Banner retrieving the gun from the trash can outside of Janssen's Market.
Hines asked Banner if anyone in his house used cocaine, to which Banner said no.
During cross-examination, Banner was asked by Lowell about specifics from the day when he found the gun. Lowell then asked if the gun was kept in a sock after officer Millard Greer testified in court that the gun was in a sock when Banner gave it to him.
Banner couldn't recall the gun being in a sock, saying, "I don't know nothing about no sock."
Fox News' James Levinson and Aubrie Spady contributed to this update
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