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Jussie Smollett Headed Back to Jail After Conviction Upheld by Appeals Court in Hate Crime Hoax
New York Post ^ | Dec. 1, 2023 | Olivia Land

Posted on 12/01/2023 3:59:59 PM PST by nickcarraway

Disgraced actor Jussie Smollett may be going back to jail soon as an appeals court upheld his convictions related to a 2019 hate crime hoax on Friday.

The “Empire” star, 41, was convicted in 2021 of five felony counts of disorderly conduct related to the alleged racist, homophobic attack and sentenced to 150 days behind bars. He served just six days of the sentence while the appeal was pending.

Smollett challenged the role of the special prosecutors, the jury selection, evidence, and other aspects of the case against him – but the convictions were ultimately upheld in 2-1 opinion from the Illinois Appeal Court. The California native – who made his big screen debut in 1992’s “The MIghty Ducks” – made headlines in 2019 when he reported to Chicago police that he was the victim of a homophobic and racist attack by two men wearing ski

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What's next for the French actor?
1 posted on 12/01/2023 3:59:59 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

150 days? For five felonies?


2 posted on 12/01/2023 4:01:54 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: nickcarraway

A juicy opinion....


3 posted on 12/01/2023 4:03:04 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Mr. K

They were the good kind of felonies.


4 posted on 12/01/2023 4:03:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
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A memory refresher .... it was about 2 am with wind and 0-degree temps in the liberal part of town when the 2 Trump supporters wearing red Trump baseball caps, spotted the bundled-up Smollett clutching a just-purchased Subway tuna sub.

The attackers supposedly recognized Smollett from a TV show that no Trump supporter in his right mind would have ever seen.

The two musclemen attacked the skinny actor Smollett with a handy container of bleach they were carrying “just in case” a 2 am situation like this ever arose.

And, after the strongarm attack by the two big guys, wonder of wonders, Smollett emerged, unscathed.....with his tuna sub firmly in his hand, ready to eat once he got home......after calling the cops.


5 posted on 12/01/2023 4:10:03 PM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: Liz

It’s a miracle!


6 posted on 12/01/2023 4:11:40 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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Hey......Smollett musta lived a good life -——— until the attack scheme.


7 posted on 12/01/2023 4:14:31 PM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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I hear the Metropolitan Correctional Center of Chicago is quite nice.

At least then I'd be able to spit in Juicy Smoooyeah's direction when I walk by on my way to work ...

8 posted on 12/01/2023 4:20:30 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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It came out that he engineered the attack to help his career. He felt if he was the victim of a racist attack, his career would skyrocket.

I wonder what his siblings, who are also in the industry, feel about a this?

9 posted on 12/01/2023 4:22:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Mr. K

C(r)ook County judges are letting murderers and felons with multiple shooting/gun felonies and records miles long free w/o bond in Chicago, c’mon man!


10 posted on 12/01/2023 4:24:49 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Liz

...protected by Cook County Prosecutor Kim Foxx, who turned out to be a Soros plant...


11 posted on 12/01/2023 4:25:36 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

She’s staying under the radar........wont dare show her Dem face.


12 posted on 12/01/2023 4:31:46 PM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: nickcarraway

Dave Chappelle’s piece on this, utterly destroyed any chance of his lies being believed.


13 posted on 12/01/2023 4:33:47 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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No way Juicy goes to jail...not gonna happen!


14 posted on 12/01/2023 4:34:32 PM PST by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: nickcarraway

Grandmammy gonna have to come back and read the riot act to the “judge” again to get her little Jussie Froot out of jail again.


15 posted on 12/01/2023 4:51:20 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It wasn't "genocide" when Hamas did it. Hypocrites!!!)
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To: nickcarraway

Wasn’t he working out an anti-lynching law with Kamala Harris before this happened, and wasn’t it made federal law? They both should go to prison forever for conspiring to create race riots.


16 posted on 12/01/2023 5:17:44 PM PST by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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When was lynching actually legal?


17 posted on 12/01/2023 5:25:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Dogbert41

How many people have been lynched in the last 20 years?


18 posted on 12/01/2023 5:25:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Liz

You forgot how lucky he was that the rope the perps were carrying just in case of a 2am episode was too short to actually hang him by, because it was only about necktie length, just coincidentally of course.


19 posted on 12/01/2023 5:31:25 PM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: nickcarraway

2-1

Whoever voted to overturn is not a serious jurist and is 100% a political partisan.


20 posted on 12/01/2023 6:10:05 PM PST by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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