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To: Lakeside Granny; hoosiermama

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/case-not-closed-jussie-smollett-could-end-up-in-prison-after-all/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

It’s the kind of news that will wipe the smug grin right off the face of a b-list actor.

On Friday, a judge ordered that a special prosecutor be tapped to independently investigate charges that actor Jussie Smollett faked a racist hate crime against himself.

That prosecutor will also be asked with investigating the prosecutors’ abrupt decision in March to drop the felony counts against him.

It was a sharp ruling from the judge concerning the decision by Kim Foxx, the Cook County state’s attorney, to “separate herself” from the investigation and appoint her deputy, Joseph Magats, to oversee the case.

Judge Michael P. Toomin said the decision raised “problematic concerns” and argues the proper procedure should have involved Ms. Foxx asking the court to appoint a special prosecutor.

That’s not what she did and so Judge Toomin wrote that Foxx’s breach of protocol resulted in a “fictitious office” with no “legal existence” having control over the Smollett case.

“There was and is no legally cognizable office of acting state’s attorney known to our statutes or to the common law,” the judge wrote. “Its existence was only in the eye or imagination of its creator, Kim Foxx.”

Foxx put out her own statement Friday saying she disagreed with the judge’s conclusion that a special prosecutor was required.

She says she was just doing what her chief ethics officer, April Perry, told her to do.

Not true, said Perry, who issued her own rebuke. Perry left the office soon after the charges were dropped, and said in a statement that this wasn’t the case at all.

She claims that in February she advised that Magats to ask a court to appoint a special prosecutor. She says Magats responded that Ms. Foxx had decided against it.

“Ultimately, the state’s attorney has a tremendous amount of discretion on a wide range of issues, and we must rely upon the state’s attorney to exercise good judgment in the public’s interest,” Ms. Perry said.

Smollett, who turned 37 on Friday, now faces big troubles. He had been accused of paying to friends to stage an attack against him, where they shouted racist and homophobic slurs and placed a noose around his neck, pretending to be Trump supporters.

On March 26, after Smollett forfeited the $10,000 bond paid for his release, the office suddenly dropped all 16 felony counts against him, saying he wasn’t a threat to public safety.

There was an outpouring of anger from Chicago’s mayor at the time, Rahm Emanuel, and Eddie Johnson, the police superintendent.

In his decision, Judge Toomin wrote that the appointment of a special prosecutor was meant to “restore the public confidence in the integrity of our criminal justice system.”

Now while it doesn’t specifically mean that Smollett will face charges again, Judge Toomin gave the special prosecutor carte blanche to reopen the case “if reasonable grounds exist”. That means they can also bring charges against anyone else believed to have committed a crime in the course of the case.

It all comes after a petition from a retired appellate judge in Illinois, Sheila O’Brien, for a special prosecutor to be appointed.
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NIKK...part of the article

1,861 posted on 06/22/2019 7:34:32 AM PDT by STARLIT (Jesus is the Light of the world. In fact,there is no light other than Christ.)

I as well ..I have boxes piled up in one hallway waiting to be put in the truck for the Thrift Salvation Store. I'll get this done when this crazy rain STOPS!

1,862 posted on 06/22/2019 7:39:10 AM PDT by STARLIT (Jesus is the Light of the world. In fact,there is no light other than Christ.)

1,863 posted on 06/22/2019 7:39:20 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)

I’m so happy for your family! Welcome to the world, Lillian Grace!

1,864 posted on 06/22/2019 7:40:20 AM PDT by sissyjane

Re establishing the Rule of Law will take exposing the two side system that the progressive have established in the last decades. A firm line with those who have committed infractions being held firmly and very publicly accountable. “Being made an example of” as the old saying goes.

1,865 posted on 06/22/2019 7:40:58 AM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)

My cat Simon is like my now passed cat Linus. They both stay at my side. Simon will go find a ball and yell while he's bring it to me.

1,866 posted on 06/22/2019 7:41:58 AM PDT by STARLIT (Jesus is the Light of the world. In fact,there is no light other than Christ.)

1,867 posted on 06/22/2019 7:41:59 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)

To: sweetiepiezer

I love apricots, they are expensive here.

1,868 posted on 06/22/2019 7:44:26 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)

To: Lakeside Granny

1,869 posted on 06/22/2019 7:45:44 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)

Thanks for explaining it to me.

1,870 posted on 06/22/2019 7:46:41 AM PDT by STARLIT (Jesus is the Light of the world. In fact,there is no light other than Christ.)

To: Lakeside Granny

1,871 posted on 06/22/2019 7:47:50 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)

https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgement-report/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

China Tribunal finds evidence of forced organ harvesting

These were as follows;

That there were extraordinarily short waiting times (promised by PRC doctors and hospitals) for organs to be available for transplantation;
That there was torture of Falun Gong and Uyghurs;
That there was accumulated numerical evidence (excluding spurious PRC data) which indicated:
the number of transplant operations performed, and
the impossibility of there being anything like sufficient ‘eligible donors’ under the recently formed PRC voluntary donor scheme for that number of transplant operations;
That there was a massive infrastructure development of facilities and medical personnel for organ transplant operations, often started before any voluntary donor system was even planned;- That there was direct and indirect evidence of forced organ harvesting.

1,872 posted on 06/22/2019 7:51:05 AM PDT by STARLIT (Jesus is the Light of the world. In fact,there is no light other than Christ.)

https://twitter.com/BAXT3R_/status/1142428928801497088

Watch
@ejeancarroll with Charlie Rose.

1,873 posted on 06/22/2019 7:52:42 AM PDT by jennychase

Good morning, everyone!

It’s raining again today.

We’ve had only a few days above eighty degrees this summer and today’s high is scheduled to be 55.

I love it but many people here are annoyed because “summer hasn’t started yet”.

Got an appointment this morning so I’ll see all of you lovely Deplorables in a little while!

1,874 posted on 06/22/2019 7:53:36 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The USA and President Trump.)

https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1142267665081425920

E. Jean Carroll tells @Lawrence that she will not seek rape charges against Donald Trump because it would be “disrespectful” to women at the boarder “who are being raped around the clock”

1,875 posted on 06/22/2019 7:59:10 AM PDT by jennychase

SO..out of her OWM mouth...I've found out one thing....you can go back and change your past.???????

Ruptly

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Nine dead after skydiving plane crashes in #Hawaii STILLS pic.twitter.com/9BQZUZ6Ui7— Ruptly (@Ruptly) June 22, 2019

1,876 posted on 06/22/2019 8:05:36 AM PDT by STARLIT (Jesus is the Light of the world. In fact,there is no light other than Christ.)

All animals are a lot smarter than some people give them credit for.

1,877 posted on 06/22/2019 8:05:52 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)

Didn’t the two guys he hired file suit against him?

1,878 posted on 06/22/2019 8:08:13 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)

I’ve read about that. Sickening.

1,879 posted on 06/22/2019 8:10:28 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)

1,880 posted on 06/22/2019 8:13:29 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)

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