Hunter Biden trial: 'Politics never came into play,' juror says after guilty verdict

Former Delaware State Police lieutenant Millard Greer testified that Hunter Biden's gun was placed in a sock by an elderly man who found the weapon in the trash outside a supermarket after Hallie Biden discarded it.

Greer said he reviewed surveillance footage, interviewed witnesses, and ultimately retrieved the weapon from Edward Banner, who was known to "rummage through trash."

When Greer approached Banner and asked him if someone left "something that didn't belong" in the trash outside the supermarket, Banner replied, "Oh yes, they did," Greer testified.

At Banner's home, he pulled out the firearm from a sock along with a leather pouch and other items, and handed them to Greer, the former trooper said.

On cross-examination, defense attorney Abbe Lowell pressed Greer about the chain of custody of the weapon, including questions about it being placed in an evidence locker.

Greer also testified that Hunter Biden chose not to press charges against Hallie Biden and Banner after the gun was retrieved.

Delaware state trooper Joshua Marley, testifying for the prosecution, described his role in investigating a report of a "stolen gun" on Oct. 23, 2018.

He said that at the time that he believed Hunter Biden "was the victim of the crime."

The gun turned out to have been discarded by Hallie Biden after she discovered it in her then-boyfriend Hunter Biden's car.

Marley spent only a short time on the stand before stepping down.

The government has four witnesses left before resting its case, meaning they will likely continue into Friday morning.

Defense attorney Abbe Lowell continued to probe Hallie Biden's memory of the period in 2018 when she discovered the gun purchased by then-boyfriend Hunter Biden, at one point remarking that there are "some things you remember and other things you don't."

She testified that for most of the month of October 2018 she did not see Hunter Biden abusing alcohol or drugs.

She also said that in the period after she disposed of the gun and filed a police report, her relationship with Hunter was "more tense."

When her testimony concluded, she stepped off the stand.

The government next called Delaware State Police officer Joshua Marley as its next witness.

Under cross-examination from defense attorney Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden's former girlfriend Hallie Biden said some of her memories of their interactions from the time of the gun purchase are vague.

Lowell began his questioning by saying he understood that it was a "fairly upsetting" period and that "being here is no picnic either."

Hallie Biden conceded that "it's difficult to recall" exactly where Hunter was at specific moments or whether he was where he suggested he was, at one point saying that "it's all kind of vague."

"Reconstructing this is not easy?" Lowell asked her.

"Correct," she replied.

Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter Biden's late brother Beau Biden, testified that the "remnants" of crack she found in Hunter Biden's car on Oct. 23, 2018 -- the day she discovered then discarded the firearm -- could have been from weeks or months earlier.

"You didn't see him doing drugs or alcohol" the day you discarded the gun, Lowell inquired.

"Correct," she said.

At one point Lowell's cross-examination descended into a bit of chaos as both Lowell and Hallie Biden struggled to follow the proper protocols to get her text messages admitted into evidence.

"So far so good," Abbe said at one point.

"Well, no," prosecutor Leo Wise objected.

Jurors rubbed their eyes and gazed around as the back-and-forth continued, with the courtroom bursting into laughter on several occasions. At one point, Hallie Biden appeared to look over at her fiancé sitting in gallery, shrugging her shoulders and appearing to mouth the words "I don't know."

Court was subsequently recessed for lunch.