Given he is black and gay, the Judge will no doubt sentence him to bed without supper and a week without television
Jussie Smollett Convicted Of 5 Of 6 Counts Of Orchestrating Fake Hate Crime Against Himself
Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was convicted on five counts Thursday evening on charges he orchestrated a fake hate crime against himself nearly three years ago, while jurors acquitted him of one other count. A jury of six men and six women deliberated more than nine hours over two days before finding Smollett guilty of five of six counts of disorderly conduct, accusing the actor of staging a fake racist and homophobic attack against himself in January 2019, and then lying to police about it, in a bid for publicity. Jurors found him not guilty of the sixth count of disorderly conduct.
CBS 2 Legal Analyst Irv Miller has said it’s unlikely Smollett would be sentenced to significant time in prison, if any, despite previously pleading no contest to charges he lied to police by giving his brother’s name during a DUI arrest in California. “So he’s not really a first-time offender. So when this case comes down to sentencing in a month or so from now, the judge is going to have a pre-sentence report by a probation officer, which lays out his entire background — the good stuff, the bad stuff — and decide whether or not he should get probation. And, frankly, under Illinois law, for a class 4 felony, there’s a presumption that he should get probation,” Miller said.
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Given he is black and gay, the Judge will no doubt sentence him to bed without supper and a week without television
Your racist views and beliefs are personified with your bullshit heading of this thread!!!!! What is even more telling is your acceptance of Trumps behavior and getting away scot free!!!!
Denny...
You want to bet whether or not the guy just convicted of multiple felonies gets off with probation?
A juror in the Jussie Smollett trial has explained several reasons why the jury felt there was no way they could acquit the star actor in his bombshell trial for staging a fake hate crime attack on himself.
Smollett—an openly gay, Black actor who for nearly three years denied accusations that he hired two brothers as assailants in the alleged attack—testified on his own behalf during the one-week trial.
But the juror said they felt his answers didn’t have credible reasoning, especially when there was zero evidence to back up his story.
Smollett’s creative director Frank Gatson, who initially called police in 2019, was included on a list of witnesses to testify but was never called.
Ultimately, the juror said they found testimony from the brothers hired to attack Smollett to be more convincing. Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo gave damning testimony that Smollett had paid them to carry out the task of roughing him up and slipping a noose around his neck after dousing him in bleach. They also claimed that Smollett had walked them through a “dry run” days before.
Rubbing salt in the wound, the juror said Smollett’s defense attorney Nenye Uche seemed to be “just shooting from the hip” with his approach to the trial. He threw out unsubstantiated claims that didn’t sit well with the juror, like a claim that the Osundairo brothers wanted a $2 million payout from Smollett to change their story.
In contrast, prosecutor Dan Webb had a “methodical, plodding” style that made his argument seem water-tight, the juror said.
She added: “I just hope that [Smollett and his attorneys] know that we went in there with an open mind. I listened to both sides. We wanted to make sure that those who had doubts didn’t feel pressured.” Because he was a gay black man!
I just found out why you posted this..
Because he's a black conservative
Former President Donald Trump called Jussie Smollett’s false police report about being attacked by Trump supporters “a hate crime in reverse” in response to the disgraced “Empire” star’s guilty verdict delivered this week.
“This is really a hate crime. Sort of a hate crime in reverse. And he’s not going to get away with it,” Trump said during a phone interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Friday night.
It's unfair to prosecute a Republican Trumpet
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