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Josh Duggar goes to jail for 151 months, which is about 12 and a half years, based on information anchor Mike Allen at Fox 24. The 34-year-old actuality star was sentenced within the Western District of Arkansas Federal Courtroom in Fayetteville, AR on Could 25, 5 months after he was convicted of receiving and possessing little one pornography. Allen tweeted the breaking information shortly after the sentencing and Josh reportedly had “no response” when given the timeframe.
#BREAKING: Former actuality TV star Josh Duggar will get 12-and-a-half years in jail for receipt of kid pornography. #NWANews #Duggar
— Mike Allen (@MikeAllenNews) May 25, 2022
Earlier than his sentencing was introduced on Wednesday afternoon, one cost in opposition to him was dropped after an settlement of each the protection and prosecution. It was vacated on rely 2 with out prejudice and U.S. District Decide Timothy L. Brooks, who was presiding, “famous that possession is a lesser included offense of the receipt of kid pornography,” Folks reported.
Decide Brooks additionally dominated that Josh didn’t knowingly distribute pornography and “sustained the protection’s objection to that potential enhancement to Duggar’s sentence,” the outlet additional reported. Josh’s dad Jim Bob Duggar and his spouse Anna Duggar have been reportedly sitting within the entrance row of the court docket to help him on Wednesday. His sister Pleasure-Anna (Duggar) Forsyth and brother Jason Duggar have been additionally reportedly in attendance.
Josh’s sentencing comes simply two months after when his protection workforce filed a movement requesting a delay within the scheduled sentencing, which was initially deliberate for April 5. On March 24, Decide Timothy L. Brooks granted the movement and moved the sentencing to Could 25. The delay requested by the protection workforce was to reportedly “present extra time to pursue extra info and documentation” and added that COVID made it “harder scheduling conferences with Duggar than throughout peculiar instances.”
Josh’s workforce additionally filed a movement looking for an acquittal or new trial because of the perception that Josh was “disadvantaged of serious constitutional rights” throughout the trial. There was no choice made on the movement two weeks previous to his sentencing.
Earlier than Josh’s sentencing and his protection workforce filed their motions, he was unanimously discovered responsible of receipt of and possession of kid pornography on Dec. 9, 2021. He was going through as much as 20 years in jail and fines of as much as $250,000 for every rely. A lawyer advised HollywoodLife on the time that it was probably he would serve the sentences concurrently, which meant he’d probably serve 20 years behind bars.
Josh’s verdict was from a jury chosen on Nov. 30, 2021 after his prices, which included two counts of downloading and possessing little one pornography, occurred in April 2021. One of many those that testified within the trial included a federal Homeland Safety agent, who mentioned that pornographic pictures displaying the sexual abuse of youngsters, together with toddlers, had been downloaded by a pc on the automotive dealership that Josh owned in Could 2019. Josh pleaded not responsible in the beginning of the case.
