Posted on 03/10/2022 2:52:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
The former “Empire” actor was convicted on five counts of felony disorderly conduct for lying to police after his eight-day trial late last year.
Smollett, 39, is facing up to three years in jail for the crimes but before Judge James Linn could hand down his sentence, he had to rule on a Hail Mary motion to vacate the charges filed by the artist’s legal team last month.
Tina Glandian, one of Smollett’s attorneys, argued the court made 13 critical errors and constitutional violations, including wrongfully dismissing jurors based on their race and sexuality and depriving the actor of his right to a fair trial by limiting the number of spectators allowed in the courtroom. She said Smollett’s charges should’ve never been brought because the court erred in their decision to appoint a special prosecutor, arguing they never had the authority to do so.
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Of course he did. But that federal crime-enhancement law was never intended to be used on blacks. "Only whites can commit hate crimes."
Bad theater takes a long time.
What are they supposed to do?
Everyone is legally entitled to a defense, and if a lawyer takes a case he’s ethically and professionally bound to do the best he can for the client.
You can say that you don’t think a lawyer should accept a particular case, but that’s a whole other can of problems.
Poor schmuck smollet, working hard at playing the victim card with his propaganda supporting family.
“It was a couple of hours ago when it started.”
That’s when I started watching this excruciating spectacle. Defense character witnesses, letters of support from the NAACP, BLM and Rainbow Push Coalition, (God I miss Limbaugh’s analysis), and the conga line of family members.
Celebrities are worshipped today sort of like false gods back in Biblical times. Not only in Hollywood but in D.C. They’re not “regular” people like us. On top of that, blacks are considered a protected class by them even though they commit most of the country’s crimes. And homo sex is considered the
“new morality”, more worthy of adulation by the elite celebrity class than hetero relationships. Everything is turned on its head, like in the days of Sodom.
I miss Rush so much through all of this.
I’m actually feeling sorry for the judge. Imagine having to listen to this sort of crap every single day.
We haven’t had a “justice system” in 50+ years.
We have a badly corrupted “legal system”.
“Everyone is legally entitled to a defense, and if a lawyer takes a case he’s ethically and professionally bound to do the best he can for the client.”
That was the idealism of yesterday. Despite being hard to accept, justice in the US is now arbitrary and corrupt.
They might throw the booklet at him.
So file an appeal, b*tch!
I hope it costs him LOTS of $$$$
That’s prolly the best outcome. Having him be sentenced to any period of time being the designated soap-dropper really isn’t something he’d find disagreeable.
“Justice for Juicy! Justice for Juicy!”
I AGREE but what I disagree with is the news coverage of what these lawyers say! It is treated as if there is truth in it and my statement is that these lawyers have the RIGHT to push their case to the limits of legal ethics! What I want is for this facet to be known, that defense lawyers have no obligation for the truth!
Oh sorry that was Dinesh D’Souza’s sentence......
His defense is saying if Jussie goes to jail, he could die of Covid lol
That’s all they got?
What punishment would be imposed on the attackers had they actually existed and had been “This is MAGA country” white guys? That would seem fair.
I have no faith in the justice system. As a dark skinned human, he will suffer virtually no consequences for his crime.
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