乔·拜登总统的儿子亨特·拜登被判有罪三项重罪与他在2018年涉嫌吸毒时购买枪支有关。
年轻的拜登拒不认罪去年10月被特别顾问魏红星起诉后，否认指控。在任总统的儿子从未面临过刑事审判。
该审判紧随前总统唐纳德·特朗普之后进行重罪指控定罪与封口费为提高他在2016年总统选举中的选举前景而支付的款项有关。
由于联邦法院的限制，更新的频率可能会受到限制。 总统拥抱亨特·拜登，在儿子被定罪几小时后会见家人
亨特·拜登被法庭定罪几小时后，乔·拜登总统在DANG的停机坪上与儿子拥抱并共度了几分钟。
总统在停机坪上与亨特、他的妻子梅丽莎和他们的小儿子博呆了几分钟。
孩子拥抱了他的祖父，祖父双手捧起他的脸，似乎给了他一个吻。
陪审员告诉美国广播公司新闻，吸毒方式太多，无法宣判无罪
亨特·拜登枪支案的一名陪审员告诉ABC新闻，他在审判开始前不知道亨特·拜登是谁，他与权力的接近对陪审团没有影响。
“每个人都是人，每个人都会犯错，”这位陪审员说。“这些错误可能会产生严重的后果——不仅是对他们，而是对其他所有人。”
这位陪审员的父亲在年轻时被枪杀。他说，检察官成功地证明了亨特·拜登在购买枪支时使用毒品的情况“对我来说太接近了，在这一点上我认为他不是吸毒者或瘾君子。”
“我能看到太多的模式表明他在购买枪支时使用了它，”该陪审员说。
陪审员告诉美国广播公司新闻说，政治从来没有发挥作用
亨特·拜登枪支案的一名陪审团成员告诉ABC新闻，在审议中“政治从未发挥作用”，“判决绝对没有政治动机。”
这位陪审员表示，做出裁决“并不难”，但表示12人小组在昨天下午开始审议时不得不克服6比6的投票结果。
当陪审员今天早上回来并进一步商议时，他说他们确定检察官已经履行了他们的举证责任。
“如果你是瘾君子，你就是瘾君子，”他说。
这位陪审员说，亨特·拜登在购买枪支前几天出现在一家7/11便利店的证据让他们大吃一惊。他在回忆录和短信中多次表示，他在这家便利店购买了毒品。
官员们将讨论亨特·拜登入狱后的安全计划
一名了解此事的高级官员告诉ABC新闻，特勤局还没有开始为亨特·拜登被判入狱的可能性做准备。与监狱管理局的讨论将从现在开始。
作为总统的儿子，亨特·拜登受到特勤局的保护，但如果他愿意，可以选择退出这种保护。
从现在起，他继续受到USSS的保护，只要他的父亲还是总统，这种保护就会继续下去，即使是在监狱里，除非他放弃这项特权。
一旦被判刑，他可能面临最高25年的监禁——尽管法律专家认为他不会作为初犯和非暴力罪犯服刑。
Hunter Biden gun trial updates: 'Politics never came into play,' juror says after guilty verdict
President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden has been found guilty onthree felony countsrelated to his purchase of a firearm in 2018 while allegedly addicted to drugs.
The younger Biden, whopleaded not guiltylast October after being indicted by special counsel David Weiss, denied the charges. The son of a sitting president had never before faced a criminal trial.
The trial came on the heels of former President Donald Trump'sconviction on felony chargesrelated to a hush money payment made to boost his electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election.
President embraces Hunter Biden, meets with family hours after son's conviction
President Joe Biden hugged and spent several minutes with his son on the tarmac at DANG, hours after Hunter Biden was convicted in court.
The president spent several minutes with Hunter, his wife Melissa and their infant son Beau at the tarmac.
The child hugged his grandfather, who took his face in his hands and appeared to give him a kiss.
'Too many patterns' of drug use to acquit, juror tells ABC News
A juror in Hunter Biden's gun trial told ABC News that he did not know who Hunter Biden was before the trial started, and that his proximity to power made no difference to the jury.
"Everyone is human and everyone makes mistakes," the juror said. "And those mistakes can have serious consequences -- not just for them, but for everyone else."
The juror -- whose father was killed by gunfire when he was young -- said prosecutors successfully showed that Hunter Biden's drug use around the time of his gun purchase was "too close for me to consider him not a user or addict at that point."
"There's too many patterns that I can see that showed that he was using it when he purchased the gun," the juror said.'Politics never came into play,' juror tells ABC News
A member of the jury in Hunter Biden's gun case told ABC News that "politics never came into play" in deliberations and that "the verdict absolutely was not politically motivated."
The juror said "it wasn't that hard" to reach a verdict, but said the panel of 12 had to overcome a six-six vote on yesterday afternoon when deliberations began.
When jurors returned this morning and deliberated further, he said they determined that prosecutors had met their burden of proof.
"If you're an addict, you're an addict," he said.
The juror said evidence that placed Hunter Biden at a 7/11 convenience store -- a place where he repeatedly said in his memoir and in text messages that he purchased drugs -- days prior to his gun purchase tipped them over the top.
Officials to discuss security plans should Hunter Biden be jailed
A senior official who has been briefed on the matter tells ABC News that the Secret Service has not started planning for the possibility that Hunter Biden could be sentenced to prison. Those discussions with the Bureau of Prisons will start now.
As the son of a president, Hunter Biden gets Secret Service protection but can opt out of that protection if he wants.
As of now, he continues to have USSS protection and, for as long as his father is president, that would continue, even in prison, unless he waives the privilege.
When sentenced, he could face up to 25 years in prison -- though legal experts believe he will not serve time as a first-time and nonviolent offender.
