3 different police departments downloaded child pornography files from Josh Duggar's IP address - and his defense team wants to know what they found

yahoo ^ | aug. 20, 2021 | Michelle Mark

[Morgana]

In an effort to dig up evidence that could absolve Josh Duggar, the former TLC star's defense team is seeking more information from the multiple police departments that prosecutors say downloaded child sexual abuse files from his IP address.

In a partial victory on Thursday, a federal judge granted the Duggar team's request. Judge Timothy Brooks ruled that prosecutors could likely work with federal agents to obtain the information Duggar's team wanted from the Jonesboro and Ozark police departments in Arkansas.

"The defense has persuaded the Court that the auto-generated logs emailed to the three officers could disclose information to the defense that may be either exculpatory or inculpatory," Brooks ruled. He added that if no such logs exist, prosecutors should inform Duggar's team.

Duggar, formerly of TLC's "19 Kids and Counting," is charged with receiving and possessing child pornography. He has pleaded not guilty and was released from jail in May. His trial is due to begin in November.

At a detention hearing in May, a federal agent testified that Duggar downloaded and possessed 65 images of child pornography, as well as a two-minute video featuring young girls between the ages of 5 and 10. The agent told the court that one of the downloads was one of the worst pieces of child pornography he had witnessed in over 1,000 cases.

Duggar's defense team has been bickering with prosecutors for weeks over evidence - specifically, a screenshot prosecutors provided showing that three police officers from three different Arkansas police departments had downloaded child sexual abuse images from an IP address linked to Duggar's used car dealership.

Of those three departments, only the Little Rock Police Department contacted federal agents for a child pornography investigation, prosecutors said in an August 9 court filing.

[deport]

Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application. They are said to form a peer-to-peer network of nodes.

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[rarestia]

If he had a server configured to provide this stuff to other perverts, he gets what he deserves. If it’s Torrent software, it’s possible that his system was used as a dump for illegal content. Still his problem for not knowing what he’s doing with Torrent software, but there’s a reasonable doubt component there.

Also, network address translation (NAT) is a thing, so you could have a number of systems behind an IP. Unless they have MAC addresses or some other type of unique identifier, it could’ve been another system behind that IP. Public IP addresses are NOT one-to-one, especially in the IPv4 space.

[Organic Panic]

I have no idea who Josh Duggar is.