Anna Duggar no longer can hold her mouth closed on her husband Josh Duggar.
The mother of seven shared a message on Instagram Thursday night. She spoke out for the first time since welcoming their daughter Madyson into the world in November. Also, for the first time since her husband Josh was convicted on two charges of child pornography.
On Feb. 3rd she shared, “There is more to the story.” Then she followed up the simple sentence with a link that took viewers to a Microsoft Word document of the recent motion filed by Josh’s legal team. They requested an acquittal or a new trial.
Many left comments saying, “Is this it? Is this what you’re banking on to appeal for understanding?”
Back on January 20, Josh’s legal team filed paperwork that asked a judge to either reverse the jury’s decision in December that found him guilty altogether, or to grant him another day in court.
The basis for these appeals, which experts had been expecting Duggar to demand?
The court documents claim that the government “failed to adduce any evidence that Duggar knew that the visual depictions were of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct,” a necessary element for conviction of each count against him.
Duggar’s lawyers are arguing that its client was unaware he was watching child porn… if he was watching it at all.
“The evidence at trial established that certain files allegedly found on the HP desktop computer were never viewed by any user of the computer and that all the files at issue had been deleted shortly after being downloaded,” continues the appeal.
“The jury had no evidence that Duggar personally viewed any specific portion of any of the files allegedly found on the computer.”
The jury voted unanimously to convict Josh Duggar.
The 12 jurors obviously believed, without a doubt, Josh downloaded an endless array of graphic photos and videos. All of them featuring children the age of 12 and this was in fact a federal crime.
In their appeal, though, Josh’s attorneys are also clinging to the allegation that another employee at the used car dealership where their client formerly worked is actually the one who dowloaded these materials.
Elsewhere in their filing, these lawyers allege they were unfairly prevented from calling a “necessary witness” during the seven-day trial.
Duggar’s attorneys wrote in their motion that the former employee, who was also a registered sex offender, had “regularly used the desktop computer in the months and weeks leading up to May 2019.”
They claim that prosecutors failed to disclose an email this individual allegedly sent to them, which, in their mind, is cause to grant Josh a new trial.
The odds of this motion actually being granted, and Josh being set free from a detention center in Arkansas, they are infinitesimal.
However, Anna linking and posting the documents makes me feel rather sad for her. It backs up all the previous reports that Anna somehow thinks that her husband could be innocent of all charges.
Josh Duggar was arrested on April 29, 2021. A federal grand jury in Arkansas indicted the ex-reality star for “knowingly” receiving images and videos of minors. He was then charged with one count each of possessing and receiving child pornography by the U.S. Attorney.
Since then Anna has visited him several times and seems to fully trust and back her husband being not guilty.
Duggar’s trial began on November 30, 2021 and concluded when he was convicted on the charges described above.
Josh is now behind bars while awaiting a sentencing date, which is expected to be handed out in either March or April.
Let’s hope the employee debacle is really the truth for Anna and the children’s sake!
