JOSH Duggar might stay in solitary confinement for months after “sneaking a cellphone” into the jail, as calls and visitation at the moment are restricted.
Josh, 34, is serving a 151-month sentence for his youngster pornography conviction at FCI Seagoville close to Dallas, Texas.
The disgraced actuality star was thrown in FCI Seagoville’s SHU, which stands for Particular Housing Unit, and is mostly generally known as solitary confinement, final week.
A member of the family of an inmate on the facility solely advised The U.S. Solar: “I'd be very stunned if he has been launched, as most people in there have been in there for months.”
“He has to attend till he has his disciplinary listening to.”
In accordance with the Bureau of Federal Prisons, inmates within the SHU are allowed simply “one phone name monthly.”
As for visitation, these are “restricted” or “disallowed” relying on the rationale for detention.
The insider beforehand advised The U.S. Solar that Josh went to the SHU final week for "having a cellphone."
The supply continued to say: “I can inform you that the SHU there may be so unhealthy that the regional workplace was simply down there to see what was occurring.
“They have been preserving prisoners within the SHU indefinitely, not letting them have DHO hearings, which allow them to know once they're getting out.”
Seagoville declined to reply to The U.S. Solar's request for touch upon Josh.
ANNA'S NIGHTMARE
The supply beforehand advised The U.S. Solar that Anna visits her husband ceaselessly with their seven younger kids.
The insider claimed: “We have seen Anna at visitation pretty repeatedly. I've spoken to Anna a few instances. Usually the one factor I've seen is Anna after which their children, I do not actually know anyone else.”
The supply mentioned the jail has “board video games and blocks” to maintain kids busy throughout visitation.
INMATE FIGHTS BACK
As The U.S. Solar beforehand reported, an inmate filed a criticism in opposition to the jail on October 25, 2022, for “deliberate indifference” to his “psychological and bodily wants” for “failure to supply [his] prescribed medicine for 31 days whereas he was confined within the Particular Housing Unit on the whole mercy of BOP employees.”
Within the criticism beforehand reported by The U.S. Solar, he claimed pharmacy data will present he didn't obtain his medicine whereas within the Particular Housing Unit after he put in requests 5 days every week.
Seagoville has not responded to the lawsuit and the case stays ongoing.
The inmate continues to serve his sentence at Seagoville.
JOSH'S LEGAL TROUBLES
Duggar was arrested and charged with possessing and receiving youngster pornography in April 2021.
The trial lasted two weeks earlier than the jury submitted a responsible verdict.
He was sentenced to 151 months in federal jail in Could.
He was transferred to FCI Seagoville in June.
APPEAL BATTLE
The disgraced actuality star filed an attraction to the conviction in October 2022, as he's requesting the court docket grant him a brand new trial.
Duggar's lawyer Justin Gelfand and the prosecution's Joshua Handell confronted off throughout an attraction listening to in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri on February 16.
The U.S. Solar solely reported Josh's lawyer Gelfand argued that federal brokers allegedly seized his cellphone when he tried to contact his lawyer throughout a raid at his automotive lot a 12 months and a half earlier than the arrest.
Gelfand mentioned in court docket: "[Josh] takes out his cellphone, bodily places it to his ear... for the aim of contacting his authorized counsel.
"Federal brokers bodily took the cellphone out of his hand and disadvantaged him of the power to speak together with his authorized counsel.
"He was advised he was free to go. No cheap individual in his sneakers at the moment would consider that."
When the decide requested if Josh might have gone to a different enterprise to make a cellphone name, Gelfand replied: "This lot was accessible solely by a freeway with no sidewalk, it was in the course of nowhere. There was nowhere to go."
Gelfand continued: "The car he got here in was searched, he had no entry to it. The keys to the opposite automobiles within the automotive lot have been within the workplace. He wouldn’t be allowed to enter with out an escort."
Handell for the prosecution responded: "Mr. Duggar was not in custody at any level throughout the search of the used automotive lot... Mr. Duggar was repeatedly advised he was not in custody and was free to go away.
"He mentioned his spouse was pregnant and anticipating quickly. He could have to go away with a view to contact her. The agent mentioned that is completely fantastic.
"Mr. Duggar did depart 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 12 months and a half later."
'IT CONCERNS ME'
The decide responded: "I'm slightly involved although... The agent knew he was making an attempt to name his counsel. It seems that may need been the one approach he might've performed so.
"It does concern me when somebody makes an try to contact counsel... and is unable to name counsel as a result of there is no such thing as a different option to do it. I’ve by no means seen that earlier than."
Handell for prosecution responded: "It’s not clear whether or not there was one other option to contact counsel. One in every of his workers had a cellphone not seized by officers."
Gelfand mentioned: "The agent might’ve mentioned, 'Use my cellphone to contact your lawyer.'"
BLAMING CALEB WILLIAMS
Additionally throughout the listening to, Gelfand introduced up Josh’s worker Caleb Williams, who he claims might've dedicated the crime.
Gelfand mentioned: “Caleb Williams labored at Wholesale Motorcars, which is the scene of the alleged crime. He repeatedly used the one pc, the HP pc, for functions that had nothing to do with Wholesale Motorcars or Josh Duggar.
“He texted Mr. Duggar on Could 7, roughly every week earlier than the alleged crime, providing to go watch the lot the next week. He took a photograph of Mr. Duggar within the workplace the place the alleged crime occurred. Displaying Mr. Duggar used a Macbook, not the HP pc.”
When the decide requested about Williams not being on the automotive lot on the time of the crimes and their potential to nonetheless name him as a witness at trial, Gelfand responded: “District Court docket mentioned if he says he wasn’t there and didn’t distant in, if he denies committing the crime, that’s so far as you’re going to get."
Gelfand mentioned of his proof in opposition to Williams: “He locations himself repeatedly on the automotive lot utilizing the one pc seized with youngster pornography on it. The court docket disadvantaged Mr. Duggar of that potential.”
Handell for prosecution responded: “The partition part of Mr. Duggar’s pc, which was the a part of the pc containing the entire youngster sexual abuse materials, needed to have been put in by somebody at Mr. Duggar’s pc on Could 13, 2019. There is no such thing as a proof Mr. Williams was current on the automotive lot and even within the state of Arkansas on that date.
“There was plentiful proof Mr. Williams was not current in Arkansas on that date. He was exterior Arkansas between Could 11 and Could 16, the federal government has receipts, video, and dwell testimony from a number of witnesses that he was exterior Arkansas.”
Handell continued: “Textual content messages place Mr. Duggar on the scene of the crime. On Could 15 at 11:15 am, Mr. Duggar despatched a textual content message that learn: 'I am at my automotive lot.' Twenty minutes later at 11:35 am, youngster sexual abuse materials was downloaded on the partition part of Mr. Duggar's pc."
He gave different related examples inserting Josh on the scene of the crime.
JUDGE'S DECISION
The decide put the case "beneath advisement" and excused counsel.
Beneath advisement means a decide just isn't ready to make a direct ruling in court docket.
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