Actor Jussie Smollett Heads To Court On New Charges, Claims He's Still A Victim

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Jussie Smollett heads to court on new charges, claims he's victim of 'dog and pony show'

July 14, 2021


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Television  actor Jussie Smollet returned to court in Chicago on Wednesday to face  charges concerning an alleged 2019 "hate crime" incident, in what he  called a "dog and pony show."

The former "Empire" actor was accused of faking a racist, homophobic  attack against himself in January 2019. The allegations led to six  counts of disorderly conduct that were dropped two months later by the  Cook County State's Attorney's office... However, the charges have again been raised against Smollett. The actor claimed two masked men approached him as he was walking home on Jan. 29, 2019, and "made racist and homophobic insults, beat him and looped a noose around his neck before fleeing,"  However, the account has since been discredited by the two  men Smollett reportedly paid to conduct the "racist and homophobic"  assault ... The two men alleged that Smollett transferred the sum of $3,500 to  them in exchange for the jumping, hoping to "raise his profile,"...

The FBI wasted no time on this one, while they didn't even budge to investigate massive voter fraud charges either

Smollett has maintained his innocence and pleaded not guilty to the charges. Smollett's attorneys said their client had performed community  service and forfeited his $10,000 bond to get out from under the 2019  charges, and therefore any new charges violated his right against double  jeopardy...,  Cook County Circuit Court Judge James Linn disagreed.  "There was no trial in this case, there was no jury empaneled, no  witnesses were sworn, no evidence was heard, no guilty pleas were ever  entered ... nothing like that [ever] happened," Linn said ... "There was no adjudication of this case."

Linn said Smollett could not have paid any criminal penalty because,  with the charges against the former "Empire" actor dropped, there was no  penalty to pay. "You cannot have any criminal penalty, whether it's jail, probation, conditional discharge ... none of that can be ordered on the innocent or presumed innocent or the unadjudicated," Linn said... Linn also noted that Judge Michael Toomin said last year that due to the conduct of Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, her office's entire case against Smollett was invalid.

He knows the system is covering his butt

According to the Chicago Tribune,  prosecutor Sean Wieber said no matter what deal Smollett reached with  the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, it was not part of any formal  plea agreement. "We know he didn't participate in [deferred prosecution] and instead they say he effectively complied," Wieber said. "But effective compliance is no compliance at all, because there was no actual enrollment." Smollett has been recently criticized on Twitter concerning the case against him... "I don't know exactly how to describe it," he said, according to the Tribune. "I've never quite seen a transcript [or] anything like that. Perhaps  clarity will come about that at some later date, there are maybe other  people to address that ... what didn't happen is that double jeopardy  attached to that proceeding."  In rejecting Smollett's bid for the charges against him to be thrown  out, Linn said the court records for the day on which Cook County  dropped charges against Smollett were highly irregular.

Jussie Smollett heads to court on new charges, claims he's victim of 'dog and pony show'
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