Jussie Smollett requests a new trial in response to claims that he staged a hate crime on himself. He only spent less than a week in jail after the Illinois Appellate Court granted. The actor first reported an alleged attack by two guys wearing ski masks outside his flat. Three months after being found guilty … Read more
Jussie Smollett, an American actor, is slated to be sentenced in a Chicago court on Thursday for fraudulently reporting to police that he was the victim of a hate crime, though his lawyers will first try to get the guilty judgement overturned. Smollett, 39, was convicted of five counts of felony disorderly conduct in December … Read more
A jury in Chicago on Thursday found US actor Jussie Smollett guilty of five felony counts of disorderly conduct for falsely telling police he was the victim of a racist and homophobic hate crime in 2019 — an attack prosecutors said he himself staged. Smollett, who was one of the stars of the popular television drama “Empire” … Read more
