Duggar Fingers Ex-Coworker In Appeal For New Trial

Law & Crime reports:

Disgraced reality TV star Josh Duggar asked a federal appeals court to give him a new trial on charges of downloading and possessing child sexual abuse material on Thursday, according to federal court records.

Duggar, 34, was arrested in April 2021 after a detective in Little Rock, Arkansas, noticed child pornography files connected to a computer at his car dealership. He traced them back to the onetime conservative activist and star of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting.”

The lower court erred, Duggar’s attorney argued, by severely limiting the testimony of the man who the defense has consistently attempted to claim was the actual perpetrator of the crime, an employee who worked at the car dealership.

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An attorney for Josh Duggar asked a federal appeals court panel on Thursday to reverse the former reality TV star’s conviction for downloading child pornography. https://t.co/AEL7odS38e

— KALB News Channel 5 (@KALBtv5) February 16, 2023

APPEAL FILED: Josh Duggar’s attorney asked a federal appeals court panel to reverse his child pornography conviction, saying investigators violated his rights by seizing the phone he was using to try to call his lawyer during the search. https://t.co/Zi17ZGg3a9

— 23 WIFR (@23WIFR) February 16, 2023