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To nobody’s shock, Josh Duggar continues to struggle his conviction and sentence.
Earlier this yr, the courtroom denied his movement for a brand new, free lawyer to proceed his countless appeals.
Josh is representing himself. And he’s even landed himself a listening to.
On the upcoming courtroom date, he’ll proceed to insist that his trial was unfair, and that his constitutional rights have been violated.
Josh Duggar will probably be caught behind federal bars for a VERY very long time. Nobody feels sorry for him. (Picture Credit score: NBC)
Sure, Josh Duggar continues to struggle his conviction & sentence
On Friday, November 21, US District Decide Timothy L Brooks set a listening to for March 4, 2026 in Fayetteville.
That is the date, the North Arkansas Democrat Gazette studies, on which Josh Duggar and prosecutors will current arguments.
Josh continues to insist that his trial was unfair. He claims that the courtroom violated his constitutional rights.
As you might recall, the courtroom denied his efforts to get a brand new, free lawyer to help in his never-ending appeals. The suitable to an lawyer has limits, and normally ends after the primary enchantment or so exterior of capital convictions.
So far, native judges, the eighth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals, and the Supreme Courtroom have all declined Josh’s efforts to go free. However he gained’t settle for that he’s in jail the place he belongs.
Josh and Anna Duggar on the now-defunct TLC actuality present 19 Children and Counting. (Picture Credit score: TLC)
He has an entire record of gripes
This time round, Josh is claiming that he has eight grounds for post-conviction reduction.
In accordance with the disgraced former actuality star, even when the person claims should not sufficient, the cumulative impact of those alleged errors must be sufficient.
Naturally, Josh has an entire laundry record of gripes. He claims that the trial improperly excluded proof of another person allegedly accessing his laptop.
He additionally claims that the US authorities’s lead forensic knowledgeable lied beneath oath, concerning the little one sex-abuse pictures that he accessed and about his downloading exercise.
Josh additionally whines that uncharged felony conduct was prejudicial. (Courts will generally permit testimony that establishes a sample of habits — like, hypothetically, if somebody who downloaded media of the sexual abuse of younger women had additionally molested 5 younger women, 4 of whom being his personal sisters)
Throughout his time on TLC’s 19 Children and Counting, Josh Duggar was hiding darkish secrets and techniques. (Picture Credit score: TLC)
To listen to him inform it, lots of people conspired to wrongfully convict him
In accordance with Josh Duggar, a witness “lied” a couple of confession that he had given. It appears that evidently he’s actually irritated that his adolescent crimes got here up in any respect.
Longtime Duggar-watchers might recall that Josh’s staff had dreamed up a scapegoat, a part-time worker on the automotive dealership. He clearly resents that he was not allowed to assert to the jury that this man had arrange a partition on Josh’s laptop after which used file-sharing to steadily obtain CSAM.
Josh, who was arrested by the federal authorities when fellow conservative Donald Trump was president, claimed that the prosecution was politically motivated.
Oh, and he complains that his household’s assertion to Fb from 2015 — one acknowledging his unfaithfulness to spouse Anna — ought to by no means have come up at trial. He insists that producers “coerced” the assertion, and that he by no means wrote it.
Josh additionally alleges that he had ineffective help of counsel. That’s one thing that does occur at occasions — somebody will get a nasty lawyer. Did it occur this time, with Jim Bob presumably footing the invoice?
Now-disgraced felony Josh Duggar sits beside spouse Anna Duggar on 19 Children and Counting. (Picture Credit score: TLC)
In case you want a refresher …
In Could of 2019, Josh used a piece laptop at his used automotive lot to downloaded images and video of the sexual abuse of women, at the very least a few of whom have been under the age of 12.
As we’ve beforehand defined, the Division of Homeland Safety detected these downloads utilizing a program referred to as Torrential Rain, which detects peer-to-peer web utilization to catch these buying and selling in CSAM.
Each obtain and viewing of this heinous materials successfully re-victimizes the kids, residing or lifeless, who first suffered to gratify and enrich grownup predators.
Josh had created a partition on his laptop to isolate the machine’s actions from the Covenant Eyes program that his spouse Anna Duggar used to watch Josh’s web exercise. It’s the identical creepy program utilized by Mike Johnson.
The silver lining is that plainly Josh spent a lot time and vitality hiding his crimes from his spouse that he forgot that they’re, in spite of everything, crimes. Thus, investigators caught him.
Josh and Anna Duggar attend Joseph Duggar’s wedding ceremony in happier occasions. (Picture Credit score: YouTube)
Hopefully, Josh will stay behind bars for the following seven years
In December of 2021, Josh Duggar obtained his conviction for receiving and possessing CSAM.
He obtained a sentence of 12-and-a-half years, which he’s at present serving.
So far, Josh’s countless appeals haven’t been profitable.
However he’s going to maintain throwing issues on the wall till one thing sticks. Or till his launch date in December 2032. Whichever comes first.
Whereas it’s in fact higher for a dozen dangerous dudes to go free quite than one harmless individual sit in jail, it will be higher and safer for the world if Josh remained behind bars.
