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Former Empire star Jussie Smollett is taking the appeal of his criminal conviction all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court.
The state’s high court has agreed to hear Smollett’s appeal of his conviction for staging a hate crime in 2019 to garner media attention, according to the Chicago Tribune.
A lower appellate court had already upheld his convictions for his report of a hate crime.
In March 2022, Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in Cook County jail, 30 months of probation, and ordered to pay a restitution of $120,106, and a fine of $25,000.
So far, he has only served six days in jail, before being released while his appeal works it way through the courts.
On the day Smollett was sentenced, March 10, 2022, he erupted in court, loudly declaring, “I am not suicidal!”
Jussie Smollett after the sentencing: “I am not suicidal. If anything happens to me when I go in there, you must all know that.” pic.twitter.com/xe2wYpQJ4O
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 11, 2022
BREAKING: Illinois Supreme Court to hear Jussie Smollett appealhttps://t.co/aD0qAdHjgN
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) March 27, 2024
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