The Illinois Supreme Court rejected actor Jussie Smollett’s request to throw out new charges filed against him for allegedly lying to police about a hate crime.
An indictment unveiled last month charged the former Empire actor with six counts of disorderly conduct related to a staged homophobic and racist attack in January 2019. Smollett is accused of lying to police by saying he was the victim of the attack.
Smollett moved to have the new charges against him dropped, and the special prosecutor assigned to his case removed. Smollett’s legal team argued Cook County Judge Michael Toomin misinterpreted the law when he appointed a special prosecutor to Smollett’s case last year, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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He simply cannot bring himself to do the honorable, humble thing, and admit he was wrong. But he’s got plenty of time in his hands to think about it now.
ReplyDeleteHe's poisoned by Hollywood's dreamland sense of entitlement.
ReplyDeleteJust another Hollyweird nobody. People that have been given every opportunity and blow it in one night to start a race hater debate for publicity. In this case it just did not work. Sounds almost like SU, doesn't it???????
ReplyDeleteJessie Smollett should be serving jail time already if he was white and had done the same crime to a black actor it would never have even made the news let alone the court system. He is a disgrace to his race of good black people who care about this country and love their countrymen regardless of race, gender, and know we need less of this in this country and more working together to build better lives for us and future generations. I pray for a change and a brighter future and with Trump we will have another four years. God Bless us all.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the federal mail charges? That's what they need to go after him for.
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