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CHICAGO — Jussie Smollett’s lawyers told an Illinois appellate court Tuesday it should toss the former “Empire” actor’s convictions for staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about it to Chicago police, arguing that anger over the case led to properly dismissed charges being improperly
Illinois Appellate Court judges on Tuesday fired questions at lawyers for Jussie Smollett about the 2019 hearing during which Cook County prosecutors dropped all charges against him, spurring at the time a firestorm of controversy as well as the eventual appointment of a special prosecutor. The substance of that hearing, and whether it constituted an agreement with Smollett, is central to the ...
In Springfield, the case has received a lot of attention. Because it is the city's first murder trial in a number of years.
Jussie Smollett's lawyers told an Illinois appellate court Tuesday it should toss the former "Empire" actor's convictions for staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about it to Chicago police, arguing that anger over the case led to properly dismissed charges being improperly restored.
Jussie Smollett’s drawn out legal saga begins anew Tuesday when an Illinois appeals court will hear oral arguments that the former “Empire” actor’s convictions for staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about it to Chicago police should be tossed. If the appeal before the Chicago-based First District Appellate Court…