Posted on 03/27/2019 4:35:14 PM PDT by grundle
The prosecutor who dropped the 16 disorderly conduct charges, Joe Magats, flat out said he believes the actor lied to the police. “I do not believe [Jussie] is innocent,” he told CBS Chicago.
He added to ABC Chicago, “This was not an exoneration. To say that he was exonerated by us or anyone is not true. We believe he did what he was charged with doing.”
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Not his first offense. Lied and said he was his brother.
Yes. I moved out of Chicago.
He is not a kid. He is a 34 year old man.
I used the term “kid” sarcastically.
He jus a poh boy/S
Jussie deserves a stiff jail sentence and the feds may give it to him yet.
Anyone know how much the CPD spent investigating the flimflam this doofus tried to put over?
FReegards
If the brothers lied to cops why haven’t they been charged?
It wasn’t his first offense according to wikipedia. I think he gave his brother’s info to the police when he got pulled for dui.
According to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, Smollett pleaded no contest to providing false information to law enforcement in a 2007 misdemeanor case resulting from a DUI stop in which Smollett gave police a false name.[32] Smollett also pleaded no contest to driving with a blood alcohol level over the legal limit and driving without a valid driver’s license,[32] and was sentenced to a fine and two years of probation.[32]
I don’t ever recall SIXTEEN FELONY charges being all dropped at once for a first offender. Does that happen all the time?
He is not a kid. He is a 34 year old man.
A man who is not convicted in a court of law is presumptively innocent in the eyes of the law. This is first year law school stuff. If Mr. Magats does not understand that, then he has no business practicing law.
“OK.....am I missing something?”
Yes...
The probable Federal Investigation into all of this.
The momentum nationally has dramatically shifted in the last couple of days.
They are in CYA mode now, trying to backtrack.
Usually you overcharge offenses because you know the trial Judge will more than likely dismiss some of them. But in this case, no Judge was even given the option to do that. Dismissing all 16 at one time, seems to be an abuse of power, especially if it's discovered that no one else with that may felony counts ever had all the charges dropped at the same time. He was indicted on 16 counts by a Grand Jury. I wonder how those people feel now.
Rats like to do stuff in a big way. They went too far.
My daughter and SIL (Navy) just moved there for a two year shore duty assignment. Counting down the days till they move again.
First Offense. Pay the fine. Drop the charges. It is done all the time.
Nonsense. Not when extraordinary police resources are devoted to a case. How many murders went uninvestigated because Chicago detectives were chasing Jussie’s fairy tale? A lot. Guaranteed.
For felonies?
OK, so why then did you drop the charges? And who ordered you to do that?
#2. Yes, LOGIC in this idiot’s comments.
And he went to law school? Where? Un. of Chicago, Moscow campus?
They haven’t got enough Lysol, Bleach, Tide or dynamite to “clean house in Chicago”.
A nuke might work. Otherwise, the grime and crime is too deeply embedded in both Chicago politics and Chicago crime to be cleaned up the traditional way.
Only mass arrests of criminals and politicians, but I repeat myself, will make any kind of dent. Start with the Mayor and work your way down the political food chain.
Then look and see who’s running the gangs in Chicago, where they get their drugs from, and then try and fry them.
The decent people of Chicago deserve a break after 100 years of crime and corruption.
Arrest the brothers and get them to roll on Jussie, then see where that puts the prosecutors.
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