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Jussie Smollett criminal trial to move forward after judge denies to dismiss case
[FOXNEWS] A judge on Friday denied a last-ditch effort to dismiss a criminal case against actor Jussie Smollett ...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted This is MAGA country!while thumping him at 2:30am on a bitter cold night in Chicago and throwing bleach on him, presumably to lighten him up. The story quickly unraveled, and he became a laughingstock and the poster boy for pretend victimization and attention whoredom... , who is accused of lying to police when he reported that he was the victim of a racist, anti-gay attack in downtown reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... in January 2019. An attorney for the former "Empire" actor said Smollett's rights were being violated since he had already performed community service and given up a $10,000 bond under a previous deal with Cook County prosecutors to drop charges. "A deal is a deal. That’s ancient principle," attorney Nenye Uche said. But Judge James Linn noted that Smollett's case now was being led by a special prosecutor appointed by another judge, an arrangement that he would not upset. A Cook County judge on Friday shot down former ’Empire’ star Jussie Smollett's effort have a criminal case against him dismissed. Smollett is accused of lying to police when he reported that two masked men attacked him in downtown Chicago in January 2019. Linn said jury selection in Smollett's trial would start Nov. 29. Smollett, a gay Black man, told police in 2019 that two masked men attacked him when he was in Chicago working on "Empire." But he was charged weeks later with filing a false police report, after Sherlocks concluded that he staged the attack and paid two brothers to carry it out because he was unhappy about his salary and wanted to promote his career. That case, however, was dropped. The case was revived when a special prosecutor charged Smollett with disorderly conduct over the police reports. The actor has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." Although Uche tried to have the case dismissed, he said Smollett wants "nothing more than to go to a jury and clear his name." Related: Jussie Smollett: 2021-09-27 HATE CRIME HOAX: Black University Employee Arrested For Allegedly Painting Racist Graffiti on School Building Jussie Smollett: 2021-09-01 Hate crimes have rocketed to their highest level in 12 years Jussie Smollett: 2021-08-28 Time's Up CEO resigns in wake of Cuomo scandal Posted by: Fred 2021-10-17 |
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