Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle has filed a petition that seeks to let him out of federal prison.
According to Reuters news agency, Fogle claims in his filing that his August 2015 guilty plea to child-pornography charges was illegally coaxed from him.
The filing, a “habeas corpus” petition charging that one’s detention is illegal, claims that his plea was the result of a “charge of conspiracy” that the federal law against sexual misconduct involving minors doesn’t cover.
Fogle is serving a 15 year, eight-month sentence at a federal prison in Colorado.
Fogle became the face of Subway when company marketers learned he had lost more than 200 pounds on a Subway-only diet in Bloomington, Indiana. Over the next 15 years, the sandwich shop rose to become one of America’s biggest fast-food chains.
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