Overview

• Supreme Court declined without comment to hear Duggar’s challenge to his 2021 child pornography possession conviction.
• The former reality TV star is serving a 12½-year sentence at FCI Seagoville after child sexual abuse images were found on a car dealership computer.
• Duggar asked a federal judge in the Western District of Arkansas to appoint counsel to evaluate constitutional claims and prepare a motion for relief.
• His defense aims to revisit the trial court’s exclusion of a former employee’s prior sex-offense conviction and contest other procedural rulings.
• The case has attracted attention owing to Duggar’s earlier admissions of molesting his sisters and the 2015 cancellation of TLC’s '19 Kids and Counting.'