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Under oath. mr. smollett would not have lost this case as he did today unless the jury found that he lied to them. i was proud this jury came to the conclusion he was guilty and he came up with a completely ridiculous story to explain his misconduct did not apparently have an impact on the jury's verdict. >> that is perjury. who do you handle that at this point? >> i don't know the answer to that question. i will say that over the years, if someone is convicted in a court of law by a jury normally follow up perjury charges do not occur. that's not the way it is. i'm not going to predict what w...

Homophobia, racism, tried to exploit and capitalize, they say for publicity and note rye yet. and we think about hate crime, as you know, it had been on the rise in this country for the past several years. part of the frustration of the special prosecutor and the jurisdiction, people are likely to be less believed if they are to report these falsehoods, that there's a way for future victims of hate crimes, that if you provide this information, if you say these hoaxes, you lessen the credibility of future victims of hate crimes. of course nobody wants that to happen. the jury has spoken clearly...

The jussie smollett trial. >> that's what i foi told the verdict. after one day of deliberations in which they found mr. smollett guilty of virtually all charges of doing exactly what we said he did of reporting a fake crime to the chicago police department as a real crime. that verdict was a resounding message by the jury that, in fact, mr. smollett did exactly what we said he did. what i think is important about this verdict is that a lot of you from chicago know it was a couple years ago when the court system came to me and wanted me to become special prosecutor because there was a feeling ...

Jussie Smollett on Tuesday pushed back during a heated cross-examination with prosecutors who claimed the Empire actor, who is accused of staging a hate crime, purposely identified one of the alleged attackers as white to better sell the story.

During his trial in Chicago, disgraced "Empire" star Jussie Smollett scolded the prosecutor for quoting the N-word from the texts Smollett sent that were introduced as evidence.