Josh Duggar Trying To Get Brand New Child Porn Trial On Legal Loophole -- Could It Possibly Work?!
02.03.2022 - 01:01
/ perezhilton.com
We guess Jim Bob Duggar didn’t sell all that land for nothing? These are some bold legal moves he’s paying for!
Once again Josh Duggar is trying to get out from under his child porn conviction. Back in December the 19 Kids and Counting alum was found guilty of one count each of receiving and possessing child pornography, and he’s looking down the barrel of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on April 5, but before then his legal team is going to pull out all the stops. They’ve already asked for a retrial and for the verdict to be thrown out, but they’re still at it.
A couple weeks back Josh’s lawyers argued there was never any direct evidence presented in the trial that Josh personally viewed the child porn. Is that even a requirement for the charges of receiving and possessing though? Apparently not. The prosecution responded:
Considering how difficult it was to track down these videos on the dark web, that seems pretty airtight.
Related: The Worst Thing Josh Duggar Is Accused Of Downloading
In any case, the prosecution ultimately responded by saying that the “evidence of the defendant’s guilt is clear and overwhelming.”
We’d have to agree, considering it was his work computer in his office, and the secret system installed on it — where the child porn was found — was password protected by his go-to password, a password that was even on the Duggar Family Instagram account. The argument that it was someone else coming in and framing him is frankly pretty ridiculous. Add to that all the testimony about Josh’s alleged previous admissions that he molested children, and you have about the most slam-dunk case we’ve ever heard of.
So what’s the new argument?
On Monday Josh’s
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