The Illinois Supreme Court threw out Jussie Smollett's conviction after finding the state's prosecution unfair due to an ...
In 2021, Smollett was found guilty of five counts of disorderly conduct after it turned out he set up the attack.
The court overturned the case based on the procedural issue of a due-process violation during the years of high-profile legal ...
Smollett had been accused of orchestrating a racist and homophobic attack on himself in downtown Chicago in 2019.
The criminal cases of actors Jussie Smollett and Bill Cosby, both Black, high-profile entertainers found guilty before their ...
The real injustice here was the sweetheart deal that [Smollett] was given by Kim Foxx’s office at the beginning of all of ...
Jussie Smollett's attorney said the actor was "harmed substantially" after he was found guilty of lying about a 2019 hate crime in an interview with "GMA3" following the overturning of his conviction.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of actor Jussie Smollett. The former “Empire” actor took his case to the Illinois Supreme Court in September in a ...
Jussie should have admitted guilt.” The “real injustice” regarding the Smollett case is the “sweetheart deal” Cook County State’s Attorney General Kim Foxx gave the Empire actor at the ...