It looks like Josh Duggar will finally need to accept his fate:
The disgraced reality TV star isn’t going anywhere for a long time.
On Monday morning, the Supreme Court rejected Duggar’s request to consider whether his conviction for downloading child sexual abuse images should be thrown out.
Yes, as previously reported, Duggar and his legal team really were all the way to the Supreme Court to try to overturn his guilt.
![Josh Duggar Appeal: Rejected by Supreme Court! 9 Josh Duggar Post-Conviction Mugshot](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/josh-duggars-post-conviction-mug-shot.png)
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As most celebrity gossip followers know by now, Duggar was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison after a jury in Arkansas found him guilty on one count of receiving child pornography in 2021.
He downloaded the aforementioned images and videos onto a computer at a used car dealership he owned, but has since argued that he is innocent – and a different employee of this same company should have been considered the culprit.
This was the point made by lawyer Justin Gelfand in a petition to the Supreme Court in which he alleged that the original judge excluded “relevant evidence of an alternative perpetrator” after preventing the defense from telling jurors about a previous sexual crime by a former employee at Duggar dealership.
Due to this decision, Duggar’s lawyers did not call the former employee to testify.
![Josh Duggar Appeal: Rejected by Supreme Court! 11 Now-disgraced criminal Josh Duggar is sitting next to wife Anna Duggar on 19 Kids and Counting.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/anna-and-josh-duggar.jpg)
![Josh Duggar Appeal: Rejected by Supreme Court! 12 Now-disgraced criminal Josh Duggar is sitting next to wife Anna Duggar on 19 Kids and Counting.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/anna-and-josh-duggar.jpg)
Duggar, of course, rose to fame as the oldest child of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, having starred on the TLC show 19 Kids and Counting.
The series was canceled years before Duggar’s conviction… in 2015, after he also admitted to committing adultery AND molesting his sisters as a teenager.
The guy has serious problems.
Duggar also lost an appeal about a year ago, after trying to get a different court to hear his whining, whining, and legal complaints.
![Josh Duggar Appeal: Rejected by Supreme Court! 13 Photo of Josh Duggar from April 2021.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0426_joshduggar_01-1024x768.jpg)
![Josh Duggar Appeal: Rejected by Supreme Court! 14 Photo of Josh Duggar from April 2021.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0426_joshduggar_01-1024x768.jpg)
For this Supreme Court appeal, Gelfand wrote:
“Mr. Duggar presented the district court with concrete facts, making it clear that the possibility that the crime had been committed by someone else was far from speculative.
“Courts must trust juries to decide what is pure speculation and what is not. But in this case, it was the judge – not the jury – who made the final decision.”
Previously, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the trial judge in refusing to throw out Duggar’s conviction, writing in August 2023 that it “struck a balance” in allowing the former employee to testify… as long as the previous conviction was not mentioned to the jurors.
![Josh Duggar Appeal: Rejected by Supreme Court! 15 Josh and Anna Duggar on the now-defunct TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2023-11-10-at-1.16.25-PM-1024x534.png)
![Josh Duggar Appeal: Rejected by Supreme Court! 16 Josh and Anna Duggar on the now-defunct TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2023-11-10-at-1.16.25-PM-1024x534.png)
Duggar has reportedly been visited on a few occasions by his parents in prison, though no siblings, we believe, have yet made the trip.
As for his wife Anna?
The mother of Josh’s seven children and the woman he cheated on with random people he met on a website created for people looking for lovers and mistresses?