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The legal team representing embattled 19 Kids and Counting star Josh Duggar said it wants its client's child pornography charges dropped because the government failed to preserve evidence that might have exonerated the celebrity.
Moreover, his lawyers said in an August 20 court filing that other people had access to Duggar's used car sales lot, where one admitted to watching porn.
The Springdale, Arkansas, business was previously the target of Department of Homeland Security investigators (HSI), who searched the electronic devices of people who had access to the wireless internet at Wholesale Motorcars.
About a month after executing its first search warrant at the car lot, investigators learned that one person had on 'several occasions' slept overnight at Wholesale Motorcars, where he entertained himself with adult content, the court filing said.
'[The witness] admitted to viewing adult pornography through websites he accessed through the internet on his cellular phone and, when asked by federal agents, denied viewing child pornography,' the court document said. 'Based on HIS's official report, the cellular telephone was examined for evidence of child pornography… with negative results.'
Josh Duggar, who appeared in TLC's 19 Kids and Counting, is accused of downloading and keeping porn depicting sexual