WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Courtroom on Monday rejected an attraction from Josh Duggar, a former actuality tv star convicted of downloading little one sexual abuse photos.
Duggar was on the TLC present “19 Youngsters and Counting” together with his giant household earlier than his 2021 conviction.
The court docket didn’t elaborate on the denial, as is typical.
Federal authorities investigated after police in Little Rock, Arkansas, discovered little one sexual abuse materials was being shared by a pc traced to him. Investigators testified that photos depicting the sexual abuse of youngsters, together with toddlers, have been downloaded in 2019 onto a pc at a automobile dealership Duggar owned. He was sentenced to 12 and one-half years in jail.
Decrease courts have upheld his conviction, rejecting Duggar’s argument that his attorneys ought to have been capable of ask in regards to the prior sex-offense conviction of a former worker of the dealership who had used the identical pc. Duggar’s attorneys didn’t ask the previous worker to testify after the choose dominated they may not point out the prior conviction.
Duggar’s dad and mom mentioned after the allegations resurfaced in 2015 that he had confessed to the fondling and apologized privately. Duggar then apologized publicly for unspecified conduct and resigned as a lobbyist for the Household Analysis Council, a conservative Christian group.