Duggar accuses feds of seeking 'unprecedented' 20-year sentence - Insider
The former reality TV star Josh Duggar complained in court documents on Wednesday that federal prosecutors had sought an "excessive, entirely unwarranted, and unprecedented" sentence of 20 years for his child pornography conviction.
Duggar's attorneys argued that other child pornography defendants who had received lengthy sentences had possessed far greater quantities of child sexual abuse material, or had lengthy criminal records, unlike Duggar.
Federal prosecutors had accused Duggar of downloading hundreds of pieces of child sexual abuse material, including images and videos, using the.
Duggar's attorneys argued in their Wednesday court filing that the child sexual abuse material found on Duggar's computer contained images that were "either only partially downloaded, never downloaded, or deleted before being opened."