WILMINGTON, Delaware -- With a jury of six men and six women selected and sworn in, arguments in the gun trial of Hunter Biden get underway Tuesday morning when prosecutors and defense counsel deliver their opening statements. The president's son stands accused of three felony charges related to his efforts to obtain a firearm in 2018, during a time when he was in the throes of drug addiction. Special counsel David Weiss' office has repeatedly called it a "simple case," and prosecutors' opening statement will be their first opportunity to lay out their narrative for jurors.
RELATED: What to know about the federal gun trial Hunter Biden faces this week Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Hunter Biden, is expected to advance the argument that his client may have been confused by the language on the ATF Form 4473, the document he stands accused of lying on. The box where he allegedly checked "no" asked the gun buyer: "Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to" various narcotics. "The issue here is Mr.
Biden's understanding of the question, which asks in the present tense if he 'is' a user or addict," Lowell wrote in court papers. "The terms 'user' or 'addict' are not defined on the form and were not explained to him," Lowell wrote. "Someone like Mr.
Biden who had just completed an 11-day rehabilitation program and lived with a sober companion after that, could surely believe he was not a present tense user or addict." After the parties deliver opening statements, prosecutors expect t.