Jim Bob Duggar rolled into court late and took a seat in the row in front of me, one seat to my right. I had to do a double-take.
As someone relatively new to all of this Duggar madness, I wasn’t even sure it was him. But it was.
There was no moment during the course of most of the day that it would have been appropriate to say anything to him. Witnesses were testifying, Duggar family members were coming and going, and I had important work to do.
Cut to later in the afternoon: the testimony has finished. After an afternoon break, I returned to the courtroom to see one of our on-air reporters there, in the second row. I took a seat beside her to fill her in on everything that had gone down since my morning story went up.
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