Posted on 09/19/2024 9:07:24 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
More than five years after Jussie Smollett staged a phony hate crime against himself, and nearly three years since his conviction by a Chicago jury, lawyers for the former Empire actor are asking the Illinois supreme court to overturn the guilty verdict.
Defense attorney Nenye Uche argued on Tuesday that Smollett’s case should never have gone to trial because the actor had already entered into a binding agreement with the Cook County state’s attorney’s office not to prosecute him in exchange for him voluntarily agreeing to forfeit his $10,000 bond and perform community service, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Uche asked the justices to send the case back to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing to determine if a contractual non-prosecution deal had been reached. Special prosecutors countered that the deal had been honored when the original case was dropped and prosecutors in state attorney Kim Foxx’s office declined to pursue charges, according to the paper. But special prosecutor Sean Weiber said that because the case wasn’t dismissed “with prejudice,” it didn’t preclude prosecutors from refiling charges. He cited “40 years of legal precedent” that Smollett’s experienced legal team knew of.......
Chicago police spent more than 3,000 hours investigating Smollett’s allegation. They eventually determined that the attack was a hoax, and that Smollett had conspired with two brothers, black extras on Empire, to stage the attack.
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He’ll never spend another day in jail.
I thought he was released after serving a few weeks, pending appeal.
They should also agree not to prosecute him for mail fraud...err...
Juicy wants to rewrite his own history
more like: paid for by dem lawfare lawyers ask for overturn of decision against smurfake.
Remember Smollett and Harris are comrades.
He and his family, Harris and Obamas all know each other and are politically aligned.
This hoax was done to support Harris’s first presidential run. She had sponsored an anti-lynching bill and this fake lynching was done to provide a (fake) example of how important her bill was.
She immediately went on Twitter to condemn the lynching of Smollett, made a big deal out of it.
Here’s a photo of Harris with Smollett.
https://static7.imagecollect.com/preview/136/51eccb4b600694f
Don’t give up hope. OJ got away with murder and still couldn’t stay out of jail later on for something unrelated to his trial of the century. Screwups like Jussie can easily do the same.
A much different country today than it was then.
Here is Harris and Smollett doing the communist salute.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/smollett-kamala-harris—600x522.jpg
Exactly. KH was in on this scam from the beginning was the only logical conclusion.
True but it’s not all doom and gloom. Rays of sunshine still sneak through.
The crime was dramatically reenacted (absent the gay sex with the “perpetrator”) in Matt Walsh’s film, “Am I a Racist.” It’s a hoot and I recommend everyone see it before it leaves your local theater
WHY? ...He was/is a total MORON!!
“ Exactly. KH was in on this scam from the beginning was the only logical conclusion.”
For sure.
You are exactly correct!
Harris was involved in the Smollett Event and most likely involved in the coverup.
And this belongs on the thread.
Dave Chappelle on the Jussie Smollett Incident
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wZXoErL2124
It’s hard to find 5 minutes of comedy involving politics funnier than this.
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