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Josh Duggar has filed a brand new authorized movement wherein he has a decide to both grant him a brand new trial — or set him free from jail completely.
Performing as his personal lawyer, Duggar wrote on this doc that his constitutional rights” had been ‘violated’ and he was “deprived of a fair trial,” largely as a result of witness Bobye Holt supplied “uncorroborated and prejudicial testimony.”
Settle in, people.
That is the place issues get a bit sophisticated in terms of the convicted pedophile…
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Holt, you see, has lengthy been household associates with the Duggars.
She testified at Josh’s 2021 trial, which happened months after Duggar was arrested for having many inappropriate pictures and movies on his work laptop of children below the age of 12.
Again within the day, Holt defined on the stand, Josh and her oldest daughter had been really being set as much as get married… just for Bobye and her husband to name off the association as soon as they discovered that Josh had molested his sisters as a teen.
Holt cried within the courtroom as she claimed she “still loves” Josh Duggar regardless of his previous habits and that “being right here is depressing.”
Quick ahead all these years to Duggar’s aforementioned movement… the place he trashed Holt for his testimony.
On this handout picture supplied by the Washington County Sheriffâs Workplace, former tv persona on “19 Kids And Counting” Josh Duggar poses for a reserving picture after his arrest April 29, 2021. (Picture Credit score: Washington County Sheriff’s Workplace through Getty Photos)
“Despite multiple objections from defense counsel, the trial court allowed Holt to testify about an alleged confession of uncharged criminal conduct by the defendant dating back to 2003,” the courtroom papers learn, citing Holt’s declare in courtroom that Josh talked to the Holts in regards to the molestation scandal.
Duggar is attempting to allege right here that Holt citing this incident from his quasi youth impacted the jury and that the “prosecution failed to disclose key facts undermining her credibility” as a witness.
He now says she had made quite a few “anti-Duggar” statements on social media and has a “deep-rooted desire to destroy the Duggar family.”
In accordance with The Solar, Josh went on within the newest submitting:
“In some ways, she resembled a bitter ex who hated Joshua since she couldn’t have him for her personal daughter. She additionally participated in paid, anti-Duggar media productions, together with an Amazon docuseries, showing alongside her husband, which straight defamed and disparaged the Duggar household.
:This sample of hostility and bias was not disclosed to the jury.”
Josh and Anna Duggar on the now-defunct TLC actuality present 19 Youngsters and Counting. (Picture Credit score: TLC)
Put this all collectively and Duggar believes he was “denied a fair trial” because of Bobye Holt’s biase on stand.
Different causes for the responsible verdict to be tossed embody “false testimony by a government agent,” a authorities agent’s alleged “perjury” and excluded proof at trial of an “alternative perpetrator.”
It’s not irregular, in fact, for an inmate to file numerous motions in an try to alter his or her destiny.
Duggar is determined to be let out.
We’re not authorized specialists right here at The Hollywood Gossip, however we really feel very assured in saying this new movement might be denied and that Duggar will proceed to rot in jail till at the least 2032.
As he ought to.
Josh Duggar: I Was Screwed at My Trial! Set Me Free! was initially revealed on The Hollywood Gossip.
