Jared Fogle, Former Subway Spokesman, Appeals Child Porn Charges

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Subway pitchman Jared Fogle's appeal to overturn his child pornography and sex abuse convictions has been rejected by a federal judge.

In an appeal he filed himself, Fogle claimed that the court that convicted him did not have jurisdiction in his case.

The Indianapolis Star reports Fogle's motion filed Nov. 6 was done without the high-profile attorneys who represented him when he pleaded guilty in November 2015 to trading in child pornography and paying for sex with underage girls.

Fogle is serving a 15-year sentence at a federal prison in Littleton, Colorado.

District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt called Fogle's claim that the court didn't have jurisdiction to convict him "frivolous" with "no conceivable validity in American law."

The 40-year-old Indiana man became a star of Subway's advertising campaigns after losing 200 pounds (90 kilograms), partly by eating Subway sandwiches.
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Information from: The Indianapolis Star, http://www.indystar.com

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