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   "Leroy N. Soetoro"  wrote:   
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   > https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/12/09/jussie-smollett-verdict-guilty-   
   > disorderly-conduct-fake-hate-crime-attack/   
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   > CHICAGO (CBS) — Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was convicted on   
   > five counts Thursday evening on charges he orchestrated a fake hate crime   
   > against himself nearly three years ago, while jurors acquitted him of one   
   > other count.   
   >   
   > A jury of six men and six women deliberated more than nine hours over two   
   > days before finding Smollett guilty of five of six counts of disorderly   
   > conduct, accusing the actor of staging a fake racist and homophobic attack   
   > against himself in January 2019, and then lying to police about it, in a   
   > bid for publicity. Jurors found him not guilty of the sixth count of   
   > disorderly conduct.   
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   > The disorderly conduct charges are class 4 felonies, carrying a sentence   
   > of up to three years in prison. Smollett will remain free on bond as he   
   > awaits sentencing, which has not yet been scheduled.   
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   > CBS 2 Legal Analyst Irv Miller has said it’s unlikely Smollett would be   
   > sentenced to significant time in prison, if any, despite previously   
   > pleading no contest to charges he lied to police by giving his brother’s   
   > name during a DUI arrest in California.   
   >   
   > “So he’s not really a first-time offender. So when this case comes down to   
   > sentencing in a month or so from now, the judge is going to have a pre-   
   > sentence report by a probation officer, which lays out his entire   
   > background — the good stuff, the bad stuff — and decide whether or not he   
   > should get probation. And, frankly, under Illinois law, for a class 4   
   > felony, there’s a presumption that he should get probation,” Miller said.   
   >   
   > However, Miller said prosecutors might ask the judge to give Smollett up   
   > to six months in jail in addition to probation.   
   >   
   > “That is a reasonable probability, because the judge may look at him and   
   > say, ‘Mr. Smollett, you got on that stand and you lied. You lied to these   
   > jurors. You lied to the police. You lied to me. I think you did not take   
   > that first step towards rehabilitation, and earned a little jail time,”   
   > Miller said.   
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   > Special prosecutor Dan Webb called the jury’s verdict “a resounding   
   > message” that Smollett staged a fake hate crime against himself.   
   >   
   > “During my closing argument, I told the jury that I though the evidence   
   > was overwhelming; that, in fact, Mr. Smollett had faked the hate crime,   
   > and then lied to the police about it, and then compounded his crimes by   
   > lying to the jury during the course of this trial, and insulting their   
   > intelligence,” he said. “With the resounding verdict that we just received   
   > from this jury, after one day of deliberations, in which they found Mr.   
   > Smollett guilty of virtually all charges of doing exactly what we said he   
   > did, of reporting a fake crime to the Chicago Police Department as a real   
   > crime.”   
   >   
   > Smollett, who is Black and gay, had told police he was attacked as he was   
   > walking home on Lower North Water Street around 2 a.m. on Jan. 29, 2019.   
   > He claimed two masked men – one of them also wearing a red hat – shouted   
   > racist and homophobic slurs as they beat him, put a noose around his neck,   
   > and poured a chemical on him. Police and prosecutors have said Smollett   
   > orchestrated it himself, paying two brothers – Abel and Ola Osundairo –   
   > $3,500 to help stage the attack.   
   >   
   > Smollett said his attackers doused him in bleach and draped a rope   
   > resembling a noose around his neck. Abel and Ola Osundairo were initially   
   > detained – suspected of carrying out the attack on Smollett.   
   >   
   > But in a turn of events, Smollett went from victim to suspect – charged   
   > with six counts of felony disorderly conduct for staging the attack and   
   > lying to police.   
   >   
   > The brothers told investigators that Smollett gave them the money to buy   
   > the ski masks, rope, and red hats to appear like supporters of President   
   > Donald Trump.   
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   > Police said Smollett orchestrated the plan because of an anonymous hate-   
   > filled letter sent to the studio where “Empire” was filmed – and said   
      
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