Overview

• On May 27, Duggar filed papers in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas requesting a court-appointed lawyer to investigate potential grounds for vacating his 2021 conviction.
• He argued that financial hardship prevents him from hiring private counsel as he pursues post-conviction relief based on recently identified legal theories.
• The U.S. Supreme Court last month declined to hear his appeal, leaving intact lower-court rulings that upheld his sentence of more than 12 years.
• Duggar was convicted of downloading child sexual abuse material onto a computer at his Arkansas car dealership in 2019 and is serving time at FCI Seagoville in Texas.
• In his filing, Duggar’s team contends a former dealership employee with a prior sex-offense conviction could have been responsible for the illicit material found on the computer.