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Though cameras weren’t allowed during Smollett's trial late last year, Cook County Judge James Linn issued an order Friday allowing media organizations to film inside his courtroom during the actor's upcoming March 10 sentencing.
Over a Zoom call Thursday, Cook County Judge James Linn said Jussie Smollett, his attorneys and special prosecutors must appear in person for a March 10 hearing to handle sentencing and any post-trial motions from the defense.
Eric Zorn: The vast understatement of Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's admission that she "didn't handle (the Smollett case) well" in an October 2019 interview with Axios came clear in the 59-page report from the Office of the Special Prosecutor released to the public last week.
The report from special prosecutor Dan Webb included such terms as "substantial abuse of discretion," "breached its obligations of honesty" and "major failure." Those are not terms that Foxx can shrug off.
The special prosecutor's report on how Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx initially investigated Jussie Smollett was made public.