Illinois Supreme Court overturns Jussie Smollett’s conviction
We posted about Jussie Smollett here a few times, the latest being in 2022. Although it looked like Smollett was going to get away with this hoax, he ultimately was tried and convicted. However, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned this conviction. They argued that a dismissal of the case was part of an agreement that the state entered into with the defendant, with the understanding that a follow on prosecution would not happen. Illinois’ high court argued that the second prosecution was a due process violation. This required the reversal of the conviction.
From Fox News:
“Today we resolve a question about the State’s responsibility to honor the agreements it makes with defendants,” the court wrote in documents obtained by Fox News Digital. “Specifically, we address whether a dismissal of a case by nolle prosequi allows the State to bring a second prosecution when the dismissal was entered as part of an agreement with the defendant and the defendant has performed his part of the bargain. We hold that a second prosecution under these circumstances is a due process violation, and we therefore reverse defendant’s conviction.”
Smollett, who is Black and gay, reported to Chicago police that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack by two men wearing ski masks in January 2019.
Charges against Smollett were originally dropped. After special prosecutor Kim Foxx requested a new inquiry, the “Empire” star was convicted on five felony counts and later sentenced to 150 days in county jail. The Illinois Supreme Court decided Thursday that the special prosecutor’s decision to retry Smollett on charges violated his rights.
“Today we resolve a question about the State’s responsibility to honor the agreements it makes with defendants,” Mark Geragos, Smollett’s lawyer, told Fox News Digital. “We hold that a second prosecution under these circumstances is a due process violation, and we therefore reverse defendant’s conviction.”
Smollett filed a petition on Feb. 5, requesting the Illinois high court intervene in his ongoing legal drama. The actor’s conviction for a staged hate crime was upheld in December.
“What should have been a straightforward case has been complicated by the intersection of politics and public outrage,” Smollett’s attorneys wrote in the February petition.
Additional Reading:
Overhultz, L. (2024, November 21). Jussie Smollett conviction overturned by Illinois Supreme Court. Fox News. Link.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Crime
I’m no lawyer and there is clearly a lot of specific detail left out of the report.
I’m not sure what he possibly could have done to legally nullify what he did.
If the DA truly overstepped, well, our judicial system is (used to be) one of the greatest elements of this great American experiment. I don’t consider it justice in this case, but if the system is working as intended, I support it.
Something tells me I’ll be very disappointed when more details come to light.
But now the world knows he is a turd.
Let’s see how many acting gigs he gets now.
He may as well become a gay porn bottom
Shooting his films from the studio at All-Points Logistics in Merritt Island, Florida.
Who says he isn’t already?
The only difference is now he would be getting paid for it.
If Juicy ‘ accidentally’ leaked a video of him getting spit roasted by the 2 Nigerian dudes instead of the laughably bad hate crime, he might have gotten some good/bad press.
Plenty of celebs have sex tapes out there that did wonders for their careers. Remember Pam and Tommy? Faking hate crimes has never worked.
Remember Morton Downey Jr?
Neither do I.
He’s much more famous as a meme for lairs and frauds than he ever was as an actor…
Just think of any ridiculous lie you hear spewed out of somebody’s suck hole and then add “this is MAG country” to it and it become exponentially funnier/more ridiculous.
He was in The Mighty Ducks as a kid. He’s alive and (sadly) not in prison; he’s no Neil Patrick Harris, but he’s doing pretty well for a gay child actor.
Dave Chappelle does the definitive stand up on that “that very famous French actor”. As nearly always he is not only dead on but damn funny.
https://youtu.be/wZXoErL2124?feature=shared
Too bad that my shelf of shocked faces is as bare as that field I used to have.
IIRC a goodly number of us said that this lying POS would walk…and here we are.
Attention whores gonna attention whore.
Technically he did six months so not a full walk, he would be best to count his lucky stars and move on. But attention whores can’t do that.
I dunno, isn’t prison kinda just a big, happy, porcupine paradise for someone like him?
There’s nothing that I can do about this reversal, but I’m not going to get upset. The well deserved damage has been done to Mr Smoll-Faggett (= Smoll-ett), and there’s no recovering from it. I hope he ends his days living in a cardboard box under a bridge down by a river.
He can join Matt Foley.
https://youtu.be/Xv2VIEY9-A8
Although I don’t think justice is served by him being let off, I agree with the decision.
As ill-advised as the “deal” he was initially offered was, the state offered a deal, he accepted it. Done and done. Prosecuting him after the fact is effectively double jeopardy.
If a weapon can be levelled against someone who’s actions I oppose, it can just as easily be levelled against someone who’s actions I support.
It was basically the same sorta-kinda legal loophole that got Bill Cosby out of the can.
The Chewbacca defense after the bell, eh? Your client, counselor, is a fucking liar and an attention whore whose actions, wittingly or un-so, aimed to further the divide in this great and TOLERANT country.
It was his lack of common sense or moral good that led us to this point, a clown show of his and only his making.
It is ‘outrageous’ his very ‘public’ behavior was excused for ‘political’ expedience. You and I both know this, you Barred Asshole.
Found this:
Note the AG is Kim Foxx, another Soros candidate. Shows that many of Soros’ purchases are lousy attorneys, too.
And Juicy got his deal because one of Moochelle’s former WH bootlickers called Foxxie and asked her to give this lying fraud of a turd a no jail deal. So, she ordered one of her flunkies to do so. Then, after the fact, the crooked political interference came to light.
All of Shotcago and most of Ill. is corrupt, including its courts.
Illinois is just California lite…
Not trying to hijack the thread, but I’m sure some are rubbing one out in relief.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-gaetz-withdraw-attorney-general-nomination/