Jury begins deliberating in Josh Duggar child porn trial

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A federal jury in Arkansas has started deliberations in the trial of former truth Tv star Josh Duggar, who is accused of receiving and possessing child pornography.

The jury deliberated for about 5 several hours Wednesday, a week soon after the demo commenced in northwest Arkansas. Deliberations will resume Thursday early morning.

Duggar, 33, faces up to 20 several years in jail on each and every of the two counts if convicted. He was highlighted on TLC’s “19 Youngsters and Counting,” which was pulled in 2015 around revelations that Duggar experienced molested four of his sisters and a babysitter.

Duggar was charged in April immediately after child pornography was uncovered on a computer at his place of work.

Protection attorneys for Duggar have argued that anyone else downloaded or positioned the boy or girl pornography on to the do the job laptop or computer, noting that no baby pornography was identified on Duggar’s mobile phone or laptop.

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In closing arguments Wednesday, defense attorney Justin Gelfand told jurors that federal brokers “were so star-struck about the probability of prosecuting Josh Duggar” that they disregarded other evidence.

But federal prosecutors showed jurors comprehensive logs exhibiting, moment by minute, the activity on Duggar’s computer system that alternated concerning him allegedly sending particular messages, downloading child porn and preserving pictures of notes. Prosecutor Dustin Roberts advised jurors the protection supposed to “get you looking everywhere but the information. This is not a intricate situation.”

Duggar’s demo is taking place as his father, Jim Bob Duggar, runs in a particular election for a vacant state Senate seat in northwest Arkansas. Jim Bob Duggar was also highlighted prominently on the TLC clearly show and beforehand served in the Arkansas Household.