Welcome, readers new and old! You guys are truly amazing. I assume anyone here has found me because of my trial coverage. I also know that many followers of the Josh Duggar trial would eat up every last detail with a spoon if they could. Since I’m privy to some of those details, let’s chow down! I thought we would begin with:
THE EVIDENCE
Each piece of evidence admitted during the course of the trial has to be formally introduced by the side doing so. The other side can object, although there have been few or zero evidentiary objections so far.
Each piece of evidence is named either Government or Defense, along with a reference number. So far the manner and types of evidence submitted have varied wildly, from thumbdrives and computers to spreadsheets and documents written by experts to help the jury understand things better.
Exhibits are usually shown to the jury immediately, or at least they see what is being admitted. They can then be referred back to by number during any witness’ testimony. More than one can be shown at once, e.g. a side-by-side of a time log showing that something illegal was being downloaded at 11:38 beside a selfie the defendant took at 11:40. The prosecution did quite a bit of that on Friday.
Copies of many of the exhibits are kept right by the witness stand in binders for each side, for easy reference by witnesses.
Here's some of the evidence so far.
For the prosecution, I present to you, the Government’s Exhibits:
#1. A document submitted during Detective Kalmer’s testimony, this was the first log of the police department’s software connecting to the IP address in question in Northwest Arkansas.
#2. Another log showing more contact with the same IP address the following day.
#3 and #3a. The CSAM images and videos in question, collected on a Flash drive. #3 was the video, and #3a contained still images. They were submitted simultaneously as one exhibit, and shown to the jury.
#4. The search and seizure warrant executed at Josh’s car lot in November, 2019.
#5. An aerial shot of the area, including indicators for highways 49 and 412.
#6. An additional aerial photo of the car lot.
#7-19 were all photos related to or taken during the search warrant execution, submitted at once.
#7. Shot of the car lot, with a mailbox containing the street number visible.
#8. The car lot in a slightly closer shot, as seen at the start of the search.
#9. A close up of the main office building.
#10. A side angle of the main office building and adjacent wooden shed.
#11. An inside shot of the office, including showing a keypad lock on the office door handle. Devices and other equipment are pictured.
#12. Another interior shot, clearly showing the HP All-In-One computer as well as two security cameras above.
#13. A close up of a different monitor that live streamed the security camera footage. It was on.
#14. A shot of the HP screen, with adjacent paperwork.
#15. Back outside for a different angle.
#16. Inside the wooden shed, which very much appeared to be a work-in-progress.
#17. Outside, looking southwest at an RV parked on the lot.
#18. Outside, looking northwest, at the RV Duggar arrived in. Agents were poised a safe distance away, surveilled the scene, and specifically waited to begin until Josh arrived.
#19. The Macbook Pro laptop computer found in that RV, complete with an American Flag sticker covering the entire top of the device.
Lots more to come!
Thank you for this write up! There was a rumor that there was a photo of the computer screen found on the backup of Josh's old iPhone that showed Josh's reflection in the monitor at the time the CSAM was being downloaded or viewed. Is this true?
I’m assuming the security cameras were only live and not saved?