Josh Duggar‘s legal defense team has filed documents requesting a judgment of acquittal or a new trial in the weeks following his conviction on two child pornography charges.
Of course, the former 19 Kids & Counting star was convicted in a federal courthouse in Arkansas last month on two counts of receiving and possessing child pornography.
And now, while he is awaiting sentencing later this spring, his legal team is trying to pull out all the stops to free him from the consequences. Related: How Josh And His Family Reacted To His Guilty Verdict In The Child Porn Trial Duggar’s lead defense attorney, Justin Gelfand, just filed a new 75-page document asking for an acquittal in the case pursuant to a technical federal legal rule.
Alternatively, Gelfand is also asking the court for a new trial for his client if the first acquittal motion is declined. Gelfand quoted the rule in question, called Rule 29, in asking the judge to set aside Duggar’s guilty verdict: At issue here, according to Gelfand, is that the government allegedly failed “to timely disclose exculpatory evidence” to the defense in advance of the trial.
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