Fake Hate Crime Actor’s Conviction Overturned

Jussie Smollet may have had his conviction overturned but that doesn’t mean the public will forget his stupid stunt. According to the Illinois Supreme Court, the case should have ended when he agreed to a plea deal and the charges were dropped. After the public found out what he had done, then learned he was going to get off without justice, prosecutors broke their deal and tried him anyway. The jury found him guilty and he got sentenced to 150 days in jail.

Bogus conviction tossed

Jussie Smollett’s conviction was just as bogus as the hate crime he reported. The “Empire” star had enough cash squirreled away to afford good lawyers. They managed to convince the Illinois Supreme Court that his “rights had been violated when he was prosecuted.”

Even though everyone knows for certain that he staged “a racist and homophobic attack against himself in 2019,” he gets away with it.

Smollett did spend six days in jail. He also watched his entire career get flushed down the toilet. That will be the end of the whole sordid saga. The felony disorderly conduct conviction handed down in 2021 was overturned because he should have never been brought in front of a jury.

A deal’s a deal. The gay black actor says he learned his lesson. He promises not to go running to the police with tall tales of any more racist attacks.

Smollett told police that “two masked strangers” attacked him in Chicago. The story was that “they threw a noose around his neck and poured chemicals on him while yelling racist and homophobic slurs.”

As details from the investigation eventually revealed, the whole thing was a hoax. The jury had good reason to hand down a conviction when they heard what he did. The legal technicality which gets him off now involves a prior plea deal.

Paying two brothers

A month after the alleged attack, which was more of a publicity stunt, one that backfired enough to cost his whole acting career, Smollett was arrested. By then, police had figured out he payed “two brothers $3,500 to stage the attack in an effort to raise his profile.”

He later admitted to sleeping with one of them. He was prosecuted after “a huge investigation which reportedly amounted to around two dozen officers and 3,000 staff hours.” The conviction isn’t going to stick but the cops are still trying to recover from him for wasting their time.

As late as 2022 in a Chicago courtroom, Smollett continued to swear up and down he didn’t set up his own assault.

The jury didn’t believe him because during the eight days of trial, “two brothers testified that the actor had recruited them to fake an attack on him near his home in central Chicago.” That was the testimony which nailed his conviction.

Along with the three-and-a-half months in jail, he was sentenced to 30 months of probation. Another part of that sentence was to pay “about $130,000 in restitution.”

When his conviction was overturned, the responsibility to pay went away along with it. His lawyers broke out the Champaign when they got word the state Supreme Court agreed with them. “Initially, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office dropped several counts of disorderly conduct in 2019 after Smollett performed community service and forfeited a $10,000.” Legally, that was the end of it.

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