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The only Black juror on the panel during Jussie Smollett's trial found the fact the actor kept the noose around his neck suspicious. Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson previously echoed the same suspicion.
Jussie Smollett testified that after the attack, he returned home and put the rope back around his neck so police could see it.
The only Black juror on the panel that convicted Jussie Smollett said he couldn't get past what the actor did not do after he said attackers looped a noose around
CHICAGO -- The only black juror among the group that convicted Jussie Smollett of lying to the Chicago Police Department said he couldn't get past what the disgraced actor did not do after he claimed attackers looped a noose around his neck: Rip it off and keep it off. Juror Andre Hope didn't see t
Andre Hope, a juror on the Jussie Smollett case, said he thought it was odd that Smollett put the noose back on for police after the hoax attack.