Is the Duggar empire starting to crumble?
21.01.2022 - 19:11 / perezhilton.com
Josh Duggar‘s legal defense team has filed documents requesting a judgment of acquittal or a new trial in the weeks following his conviction on two child pornography charges.
Of course, the former 19 Kids & Counting star was convicted in a federal courthouse in Arkansas last month on two counts of receiving and possessing child pornography. And now, while he is awaiting sentencing later this spring, his legal team is trying to pull out all the stops to free him from the consequences.
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Duggar’s lead defense attorney, Justin Gelfand, just filed a new 75-page document asking for an acquittal in the case pursuant to a technical federal legal rule. Alternatively, Gelfand is also asking the court for a new trial for his client if the first acquittal motion is declined. Gelfand quoted the rule in question, called Rule 29, in asking the judge to set aside Duggar’s guilty verdict:
At issue here, according to Gelfand, is that the government allegedly failed “to timely disclose exculpatory evidence” to the defense in advance of the trial.
That supposed lack of pre-trial evidence disclosure centers on a former employee of Duggar’s used car lot — the location where police initially descended to arrest the now-disgraced reality TV star — and where they claim to have found the evidence of child pornography on a shared work computer.
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Gelfand argues in the docs that this former employee “had access to the car lot and the HP desktop computer during certain relevant time periods,” and suggested it could have been that employee who was accessing child porn, and
Is the Duggar empire starting to crumble?
Anna Duggar has broken her silence about her husband Josh Duggar‘s child porn conviction. “There is more to the story,” Anna wrote in a message shared to her Instagram and Twitter pages on Feb. 3, her first time speaking out since her husband was found guilty in December 2021 (and since she gave birth to her seventh child in November).
Josh Duggar‘s wife Anna Duggar has resurfaced.
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With all of the buzz surrounding the Sundance Film Festival last month and with the Berlin International Film Festival poised to begin later this month, it’s easy to miss some of the smaller films released on the regular schedule. While January failed to offer many must-see titles, February looks to offer more with films such as likely Oscar nominee “The Worst Person in the World” sharing release dates with the anticipated return of Johnny Knoxville and the gang in “Jackass Forever.” Later in the month will see another attempt to adapt a video game into a series building film, Channing Tatum’s directing debut, and the return of indie favorite Josephine Decker.
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Just days after he was booked on child porn charges, we got our first hints that Josh Duggar was wearing a big ol’ guilty sign around his neck. A Special Agent in charge of the arrest said in his report that the 19 Kids and Counting star — unprompted by any accusations — greeted agents raiding his workplace by saying:
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Josh Duggar has asked a federal judge for a new trial or an acquittal, six weeks after he was convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography. In a court filing Wednesday, Duggar's attorneys argued that prosecutors failed to present evidence that Duggar "knew that the visual depictions were of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct," which they say is a necessary element for a conviction. A jury found Duggar guilty last month on one count each of receiving and possessing child pornography.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Former reality TV star Josh Duggar has asked a federal judge for a new trial or an acquittal, a little over a month after he was convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography.A jury convicted Duggar last month of one count each of receiving and possessing child pornography.