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At least someone related to the Duggar's is outraged at what he's done. I'm glad she's speaking about the victims, which NONE of Josh's other letters writing supporters even thought about. But yes, she's thirsty.

I can't tell if he's supposed to be pushing an ice cart in 1975 or if he's a Velvet Jones wanna be pimp.

He's aging badly enough that it's kind of true. The male Duggars are not an attractive lot.

I'd like it more if they reported "with elfin boy #3".

I don't know who is with Joy Anna but the 70's called and want their polyester and white shoes back. My god, this family dresses badly.

Go grab lunch everyone! We're gonna be here a while. There goes my meeting. I want to see how much weight FF has gained in prison. I bet he's drowning himself in carbs.

They let one victim turn into 5 and did not do the right thing at ANY fork in the road. I have no sympathy. This is what happens when you have so many kids that you outsource the raising of them to siblings. And then to go on a TV show, expressing how godly you are? Hubris. They flew too close to the sun and are now crashing. No sympathy.

I gave birth to ALL 19 of them, but I won't go to court for ONE.

Should we take bets that upon hearing the sentence Anna Wails hysterically, grasping at her (hopefully) empty womb Sobs quietly, with as much dignity as a woman who gave birth on TV on a toilet can muster Screams "but Jesus loves Josh, why don't you?" Faints in a totally reality show ugly way Let's hope this show gets on the road and moves fast. I have a zoom meeting at noon and I actually have to speak.

Descriptions of the images/videos begins on the bottom of page 3. Pages 6 through 29 are clean, just a discussion of thumb nails and why they are important. There is a bit of language discussion sexual acts by minors but no details. I love this judge's writing style. From page 20: "Defense counsel is well aware that the sidebar conference was at least the third time the Court had addressed on the record the evidentiary foundation that would be required before alternative perpetrator evidence could be argued to the jury. The defense team was not confused about this standard. Instead, they made the strategic decision not to call Mr. Williams to the stand because: (1) they knew they could not lay a nonspeculative foundation for his testimony, and (2) any such attempt to do so would invite the Government’s proffered rebuttal testimony." The argument by defense that "a new trial is warranted due to the Government’s failure to disclose certain demonstrative exhibits Mr. Fottrell used during his rebuttal testimony. The “exhibits” were screenshots Mr. Fottrell printed while working with Oracle VirtualBox, which was described as “a very popular piece of virtualization software.”" Seriously? Fotrell took the forensic image and mounted it in virtualization software. You can do the same thing with freeware, and it's not the forensic experts job to do the work the defense expert should be doing for your side. When I provide a findings disk to the defense, I don't go over it and explain the ramifications of the artifacts to them. It's their job to hire an expert to do that. Similiarly, I'll provide them access to a forensic image, but I don't run my software tools over it for the defense expert to look at. She gets to do that all on her own.

No, a virtual machine is a computer within your computer. You set one up (the guest) using vm software and it runs inside your computer (the host). You can turn it on and off and do things within the guest/vm system and those artifacts are not known to the Host machine. So if Josh had created a vm within his HP computer, he could install any software, run any program and download any file and when the guest machine is off, the host machine has no idea what it was doing. So you can use a VM to download CP, then delete the VM and all traces are gone. Heck, I don't think many forensic examiners look for and mount vm's. I do. But you have to look for the VM files to see if its bootable. If you delete that file, the activity is gone.

My walls are aubergine with a bit of grey on some smaller walls. I love rich colors. I have 3/4 of the outer walls as windows, so it never seems dark. I'm sure that Jill is excited about all the dead things she can put around the space. Hopefully, she'll save all the big projects for when the new baby is settled. Nice big yard for Fenna and the kids. It needs trees and flowers! If that house was 80K more than their old house, they sold high and bought low. Good job, Dillards. I don't have human kids but I do know that kids and new furniture is not always a happy union. My mother waited for us to get older before buying new furniture and at that point, there were grandkids. I think Jill's furniture is fine.

Number of images should be an enhancement. However, the number of images/videos that Josh had was miniscule compared to the image count in most CP cases. I have NO idea what they will do with the time issue. I'm just saying that defense attorneys have always brought that up in sentencing hearings, to which I point out that there was only activity for x number of months because the computer had a new OS installed x number of months ago. Pervs will reinstall the OS, which doesn't do as much damage as you would think. They use external encrypted drives, where I can see file names going to said drive but not content. And the most sophisticated are those who use virtual machines to do their CP surfing and downloading, then they export the files to a thumb drive and delete the virtual machine. Then I have NO system artifacts that indicate illegal activity. Actually, a lot of fraud crimes use virtual machines. This is why I side eyed the prosecutor's "sophisticated computer user who took extraordinary means to download CP" argument. Well, not really. If he was that good, he wouldn't have been caught. I honestly think he'll get around 10 years. For me, that's a huge home run. Anything more and I'll be ecstatic. But the average US sentence for this, give or take similar circumstances, is about 8.5. I can't do the math, but those are the numbers they give us at conferences, from people who DO do the math.

I've had arguments with AUSA's who struggled to explain the difference. They would very much like a case with emails that say "here is the cp you requested" in the subject line, to make it easier. What's worse, one of the charges may not get any jail time, and the other does, if my reading of the guidelines is correct. Either way, get rid of the language and stop trying to work around it and twist things to fit the convoluted definition. If you have it on your computer, it's possession. You can't possess something without receiving it.

And another issue I've not seen much discussion on: Duggar's download timeframe. I've had defense attorneys say "it was only over a period of two years, following his divorce, that Mr. Scumbag engaged in this sad behavior". Josh's download period was over a couple of days, if I'm not mistaken? Now, he could have just been getting started. He might have engaged in downloading for years if not caught. But there is a discussion about belonging to a CP community, i.e. interacting with pervs online in groups, etc. And that engagement takes into consideration how long you've been downloading. I personally think one day is enough. But it's something to consider, that the Judge might apply to the sentence in a deductive way.

The length of the sentence Josh can expect hangs on two issues: 1) if the judge applies all the enhancements as related to the updated Protect Act, and 2) how he considers the past sexual abuse of Josh's victims. Federal guidelines have increased sentencing for people with prior sex offense convictions. And therein lies the rub. Josh wasn't convicted but he confessed to the crimes. From a case law standard, this is really an interesting aspect. I have no clue how the judge will rule on it. If you see a sentence over 10 or 11 years, the Judge probably took the confession into consideration. Also, there is the issue of distribution. The prosecution says that he was file sharing, which by nature is distributing. This is a very liberal use of the term. Normally, the judges I've known look at distribution as perv A sending an email to perv B with CP images attached. Or sending a link to a cloud storage drive with images. Depending on this Judge's view of distribution, the sentence could go up or down. The Federal guidelines for CSAM were recently revised, mainly because judges were giving lower sentences for people convicted of receipt, possession, AND Distribution. I see many attempts to get rid of receipt/possession, or make both a mandatory minimum. I'm happy that Congress realizes there is very little difference between the two charges. From the Federal report regarding the guideline covering the distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography, §2G2.2,: 2012 Child Pornography Report explained that by fiscal year 2010, four of the six enhancements in §2G2.2(b)—together accounting for 13 offense levels—applied to the typical non-production child pornography offender and thus failed to meaningfully distinguish between more culpable and less culpable offenders. Thus, across all non-production child pornography offense types, §2G2.2 fails to distinguish adequately between more and less severe offenders. In fiscal year 2019, nearly all nonproduction child pornography offenders (99.0%) were sentenced to a term of imprisonment, with an average sentence of 103 months.48 Mirroring the seriousness of each non-production child pornography offense type as measured by §2G2.2, distribution offenders received the longest sentences, on average (135 months), followed by receipt (96 months) and possession (68 months) offenders. A central theme of the Commission’s 2012 Child Pornography Report remains true today: the sentencing enhancements in §2G2.2 have not kept pace with technological advancements. Facilitated by technology, child pornography offenses increasingly involve images in great quantities and of a graphic nature, often depicting the youngest of victims. These factors are already accounted for in §2G2.2 by a series of enhancements that were initially added to target more serious offenses and more culpable offenders. However, the conduct covered by four of the six enhancements—accounting for a combined 13 offense levels—has become so ubiquitous that they now apply in the vast majority of cases sentenced under §2G2.2. A 2021 report by the U.S. Sentencing Commission, cited in the hearings, stated that only 30 percent—less than a third—of non-production child pornography offenders received a sentence within the guideline range in the 2019 fiscal year. Almost 60 percent received a lesser sentence than called for by the guidelines. This sort of reiterates what we've seen in court sentencing. Yes, there are enhancements to get harsher sentences for "really bad stuff" but yet, that doesn't seem to get harsher sentences. I'm really looking forward to the Judge's reasoning for whatever sentence is given on Wednesday.

LOL, my typing gets me every time. I was watching a murder mystery with my room mate. The victim's murderer sent a text message to her family with her phone and the family knew it wasn't her lingo/style. My room mate turns to me and says "if you go missing and the text message doesn't have two indecipherable words and random g's, then I'll know you're dead". I'm glad my signature style is bad spelling and texting skills.

I wonder if the Judge will mention that he can't trust Josh with his family, because they have constantly failed to do the right things, and that has resulted in more victims. I mean, someone needs to say it outloud.

I always thought the point of the bible was to illustrate situations where you could do good or do evil. Kind of like a long ass, drawn out Highlights Goofus and Gallant cartoon. And that the lessons are meant to inspire you to do good. Now, my peers assure me, going to heave includes going to a mega church with two huge gyms, a home school club and an ready to go protest group to hate on abortion and gays. And Heaven is just a parking validation away. They think going to church negates actually being a good person. I don't recognize this religion at all.

My mama calls this "act like a whore on Saturday night, repent on Sunday morning, Monday morning, Virgin again! Christians. I don't have a lot of religious beliefs. I believe in something greater than myself, but I have a name for it. I believe in treating people like I want to be treated, and to help whenever I can. If the scale doesn't even out on the side of good, or if I truly go to hell because no one dunked me in a crick, then I'm okay with that. I've lived a good life and helped so many people. To think that the Duggars, who steal amongst themselves and treat people horribly are going to heaven, then maybe I don't want to go there.

But doesn't this show the true JB? We are a good Christian family, and Jebus loves us more than he loves you, so we are okay with incest and sexual abuse in our family but everyone else who Jebus doesn't love needs the death penalty. It's everything I hate about religion rolled up in one person. He's a liar, a grifter and a hypocrite. Someone should tell JB that nothing burns brighter in hell than a hypocrite.

Most of the Dark Web content is free, though there are pay sites, and most of those take bitcoin. No one wants to be traceable by a credit card number or bank routing number. Other sites require you provide content (aka new CP) to access their content.

I'm super impressed with these AUSA's. They have worked hard to cover every angle of the case and to rebut all avenues of the defense. Excellent work.

It's not something that normally happens. We don't really care if they object, to be brutally honest. If they want the computer back, it gets wiped and returned with no files, no operating system, nada. In my 16-17 years doing this, only one time have we recovered family files off a CP computer for the family. And it was a very specific instance that I pushed for. The computer belonged to an 18 year old who shot himself shortly after the search warrant was served and the computer was seized. The family stated that every picture they had of their family was on that computer, as a storage unit burnt down with the originals. The State Trooper asked me if it was possible, to which we always say no, due to the backlog of cases we have and the time needed to parse through all exported images to make sure no CP was included. However, this case was from the backwater county I grew up in and I agreed with the Trooper that if we ever expected that entire family/clan to help the police out in the future, we needed to try to do it. I pointed out that my county has 16K people with three last names. You piss off one group, and 1/3 of the county will refuse to help the police. My boss said it was my time and energy and let me do it. We aren't heartless and for me, the big picture is always the important thing. Most families don't want to the computers back.

Oh my god. I'm going to make this a bumper sticker and put it on the back of my car. Brilliant language!!!