An Illinois appeals court on Wednesday ordered actor Jussie Smollett released from jail while he appeals his conviction for lying to police about a hate crime attack against him. The former “Empire” actor began serving 150 days in jail last week, as CrimeOnline previously reported. He was convicted on five counts of disorderly conduct — …
On Friday, lawyers filed an emergency motion seeking Jussie Smollett’s release from an Illinois jail, claiming the actor is in danger and the target of online threats. According to WGN, Smollett’s attorneys said his sibling has received racist, homophobic, and menacing calls since his phone number was listed at the jail as an emergency contact. …
Jussie Smollett has been deemed at risk of self-harm and moved to the Cook County jail’s “psych ward,” his brother says in a video posted to the actor’s Instagram account. “What’s very concerning is that there was a note attached to his paperwork today and clipped on the front of his jail cell saying that …
Jailed “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett is in protective custody and his cell is being monitored at all times, Illinois officials said. TMZ reported that Smollett’s camp made the request. A Cook County police spokesperson told the tabloid that security cameras will monitor Smollett’s cell in addition to an officer wearing a body camera. On Thursday, …
The former ‘Empire’ actor had faced up to three years in prison for each of five convictions of lying to police about the 2019 hate crime attack. The jury found that he had orchestrated the attack himself.
Just weeks before he is scheduled to be sentenced, Jussie Smollett has asked a judge to throw out his conviction or order a new trial on charges related to accusations that he staged a hate crime and lied to police about it, TMZ reports. Attorneys for Smollett filed a motion in court on Friday arguing …
On Monday, “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett took the stand in his own defense against allegations that he staged a hate crime attack against himself in Illinois in January 2019. According to The Chicago Tribune, defense attorneys started by questioning Smollett, 39, about his upbringing and family. Smollett was charged with felony disorderly conduct for allegedly staging …
Actor Jussie Smollett’s Chicago trial on charges that he faked a hate crime attack on himself three years ago begins Monday with jury selection. Smollett, 39, was a star of the television show “Empire” when he claimed he was attacked on January 29, 2019, by two men who hurled racial and homophobic slurs at him …
A special prosecutor found nothing worthy of criminal charges in his investigation of State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of actor Jussie Smollett’s case, but Dan Webb said he would be reporting possible ethics violations to the Illinois attorney disciplinary board, the Chicago Tribune reported. Webb’s investigation led to Smollett’s indictment by a Cook County grand …
A Cook County grand jury this week indicted former Empire star Jussie Smollett on six counts of disorderly conduct related to “four separate false reports to Chicago Police Department officers related to his false claims that he was the victim of a hate crime, knowing that he was not the victim of a crime,” Special …
