Josh Duggar’scase picked up on Monday and his sisterJessa (Duggar) Seewaldwas in the courtroom for the continuation of his trial onknowing receipt and possession of child pornography.
The 29-year-old mom of four sat next to Josh’s wife,Anna Duggar, during the fifth day of his trial and the women exchanged a brief side hug.
Josh, 33, has pleaded not guilty and vowed to"fight back in the courtroom."
Gelfand stated that James Fottrell, a top computer forensic analyst at the Department of Justice who examined Duggar’s devices, provided insufficient evidence last Friday related to the cache file to establish knowing receipt or possession. Fottrell made his case for the prosecution during the trial’s third and fourth days andoutlined extensive time-and-place linksbetween Josh and the downloading and viewing of child pornography at his work.
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“I believe that evidence sufficient to go to the jury has been heard,” Assistant United States Attorney Carly Marshall said in response to Gelfand’s claim and proceeded to run through Fottrell’s forensic evidence.
During a four-hour cross-examination last Friday, Fottrell said, “We have lots of good evidence.” Despite indications that the computer had been cleaned of the child sexual abuse material — for example, no video files were recovered in full — he said cached data and thumbnails auto-created when files are downloaded and accessed showed that the illegal photos and videos had once existed.
It was “forensically challenging,” he admitted. But not impossible.
A sketch of Josh Duggar’s trial in Fayetteville, Arkansas.John Kushmaul
“Some offenders understand it’s dangerous to possess the material of this nature so they download it, view it and then delete it,” versus amassing a library, Fottrell said, adding that he had found full-sized originals of one lewd collection of images in a part of the hard drive that retains deleted files.
“We are doing the best we can,” Fottrell explained.
In April, Josh wasarrestedon one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. The19 Kids and Countingalumpleaded not guiltythe following day in court and was laterreleasedfrom jail to his designated third-party custodians,family friends Lacount and Maria Reber.
source: people.com
