Hunter Biden gun case set to begin in June after judge denies lat­est delay request

A Delaware judge denied a request by Hunter Biden’s lawyers to delay the first son’s fed­er­al gun case, set­ting the stage for the tri­al next month.
Unit­ed States Dis­trict Judge Maryellen Nor­ei­ka denied the request to push the tri­al to Sep­tem­ber; the defense argued it need­ed more time to line up wit­ness­es and go through evi­dence hand­ed over by pros­e­cu­tors.
Nor­ei­ka said she believes “every­one can get done what needs to get done” by the trial’s start date of June 3.
Biden is fac­ing charges relat­ed to a form he filled out in Octo­ber 2018 in order to buy a firearm — a gun he kept for approx­i­mate­ly 11 days — in which he alleged­ly lied about his drug use. He has plead­ed not guilty, main­tain­ing that while he strug­gled with an addic­tion to crack cocaine dur­ing that perio …