Due to prosecution concerns, the state’s top court overturned the actor Jussie Smollett’s 2019 conviction for fraudulently reporting a hate crime to Chicago police.
The Illinois Supreme Court considered Smollett’s case and decided on Thursday that the former “Empire” star shouldn’t have been charged following his signing of a non-prosecution agreement with the Cook County State Attorney’s Office.
In 2022, Smollett was found guilty of five counts of felony disorderly conduct and given a sentence of 150 days in jail and 30 months of probation.
Because he is Black and gay, the actor was viciously attacked in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood, and he told authorities in January 2019 that he was the victim of a hate crime. Olabingo and Abimbola Osundairower, brothers who worked on the “Empire” set, were taken into custody as part of the inquiry.
However, Smollett enlisted the brothers to assist him in planning the attack, according to a later statement from the Chicago Police Department.
Smolllett has rejected the allegations on multiple occasions, stating in court that he was indeed attacked that evening and that there was no hoax.
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