Josh Duggars Appeal Focuses on Legal Technicality

's attempt to be retried or freed in his 2021 child pornography conviction might be upended by a time-related technicality.

On Wednesday, the reality star, 38, presented his appeal case in a federal court, looking to have his conviction vacated or a retrial based on eight issues his legal team flagged in their filing. 

Duggar, who is currently in custody in at the FCI Seagoville facility (which is about 10 miles south of the Dallas-Fort Worth area) appeared virtually in the two-hour hearing.

He is currently serving a prison sentence of about 12 1/2 years in his 2021 conviction for receiving and possessing material depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. 

Federal authorities said Duggar - - had amassed 'images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children, including images of prepubescent children and depictions of sadistic abuse.'

The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for the Duggar family for comment on the story. 

Prior to that, Duggar's past molestation of five young girls in the early 2000s - four of his female siblings and a babysitter - led to the swift cancellation of the family's TLC series in 2015.

The Duggar family reality show began airing in 2008 as 17 Kids and Counting, and was removed from the air in 2015