After all the pieces we’ve heard about his horrific crimes, it’s nearly unimaginable to think about that Josh Duggar may probably be acquitted and free of jail.

However imagine it or not, there’s an opportunity that the satisfied intercourse offender may quickly be house along with his spouse and 7 children.

Josh’s attraction course of just lately received underway, with attorneys for each side presenting arguments to a panel of three judges.

A choice has not but been made public, however evidently at the very least one of many judges feels that Josh was denied his civil rights throughout the federal government’s investigation into his crimes.

The brokers who carried out the raid on Josh’s office confiscated his cellular phone to seek for youngster sexual abuse supplies (CSAM).

Josh’s legal professional, Justin Gelfand, insists that in doing so, they denied him his proper to contact an legal professional.

“[Duggar] takes out his cellphone, bodily places it to his ear… for the aim of contacting his authorized counsel,” Gelfand instructed the courtroom.

“Federal brokers bodily took the cellphone out of his hand and disadvantaged him of the power to speak along with his authorized counsel,” Gelfand continued.

“He was instructed he was free to go. No cheap particular person in his footwear at the moment would imagine that.”

When judges requested if Josh may have walked someplace close by to make a cellphone name, Gelfand mentioned:

“This lot was accessible solely by a freeway with no sidewalk, it was in the midst of nowhere. There was nowhere to go.”

Gelfand continued: “The automobile he got here in was searched, he had no entry to it. The keys to the opposite automobiles within the automobile lot had been within the workplace. He wouldn’t be allowed to enter with out an escort.”

“Mr. Duggar was not in custody at any level throughout the search of the used automobile lot… Mr. Duggar was repeatedly instructed he was not in custody and was free to depart,” Division of Justice legal professional Joshua Ok. Handell countered.

“He mentioned his spouse was pregnant and anticipating quickly. He might have to depart so as to contact her. The agent mentioned that’s completely effective,” Handell continued.

“Mr. Duggar did go away the scene at a time of his selecting and with out being arrested… Mr. Duggar voluntarily ended the interview. He was not arrested till a yr and a half later.”

“I’m a bit of involved although… The agent knew he was making an attempt to name his counsel. It seems that might need been the one means he may’ve achieved so,” one decide mentioned after listening to each side of the matter.

“It does concern me when somebody makes an try to contact counsel… and is unable to name counsel as a result of there isn’t any different option to do it. I’ve by no means seen that earlier than.”

“It’s not clear whether or not there was one other option to contact counsel. Certainly one of his staff had a cellular phone not seized by officers,” Handell countered.

“The agent may’ve mentioned, ‘Use my cellphone to contact your legal professional,’” Gelfand argued.

Along with his declare that Duggar was “interrogated exterior the presence of his legal professional after regulation enforcement had bodily taken his cellphone from his hand when he was making an attempt to contact his counsel,” Gelfand made a number of different arguments for invalidating the outcomes of the primary trial.

the Arkansas district courtroom “utilized a take a look at the U.S. Supreme Court docket has already decided is unconstitutional,” thereby “denying Mr. Duggar the chance to current an entire protection.”

Gelfand mentioned that the protection “tried to elicit testimony” from Caleb Williams, a Duggar household pal who they are saying framed Josh for his crimes.

Gelfand claims that the decide would solely have solely have allowed the protection to ask Williams about his whereabouts on the times in query, nothing extra.

“The district courtroom expressly mentioned that we may name Mr. Williams for a really restricted goal,” he responded.

“We may ask him whether or not he had data or recollection of being current on the lot between Could 13 and Could 16, and whether or not he isolated in.”

Lastly, Gelfand alleged that the decrease courtroom “erroneously launched knowledgeable testimony as lay testimony.”

Mentioned testimony, he claims, concerned a “important subject within the case,” particularly EXIF metadata collected from digital images that had been launched as proof.

Authorized consultants say Josh’s workforce continues to be preventing an uphill battle.

However there’s an opportunity that the disgraced former actuality may quickly be again in courtroom in for a brand new trial.