Lying black meat pole slurper Jussie Smollett Convicted Of 5 Of 6 Counts Of Orchestrating Fake Hate Crime Against Himself

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disorderly-conduct-fake-hate-crime-attack/

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.

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.

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.

Police said Smollett orchestrated the plan because of an anonymous hate-
filled letter sent to the studio where “Empire” was filmed – and said
Smollett did not think the threat was taken seriously.

Jurors heard from 14 witnesses over six days of testimony during
Smollett’s trial, with Smollett taking the stand in his own defense,
repeatedly asserting that there was no hoax, and that the attack was real.

“To answer all your questions about the hoax, I am going to deny. There
was no hoax,” Smollett told special prosecutor Dan Webb during cross-
examination.

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Smollett told jurors he paid the Osundairo brothers $3,500 to help him
with training and nutrition advice, not to stage a fake hate crime against
himself.

He also testified the brothers told him after the attack that they were
willing to publicly say they were not part of any hoax if he paid them $2
million.

Earlier at trial, Abel Osundairo denied asking Smollett for $1 million
each for him and his brother not to testify against Smollett.

The Osundairo brothers were the prosecution’s key witnesses during the
trial, with both claiming that Smollett asked and paid them to stage the
attack. They said Smollett wanted to use security video of the incident
for publicity, but the actual attack was not caught on camera.

When asked about the alleged fake attack, Abel said, “He explained that he
wanted me to fake beat him up.”

When prosecutors asked Osundairo why he would agree to go through with the
plan, Abel said: “I agreed to do it most importantly because I felt
indebted to Jussie. He also got me a stand in role on ‘Empire,’ and I
believed he could further my acting career.”

During closing arguments, Webb argued that the prosecution presented a
clear-cut case that Smollett orchestrated a hoax.

“We have proven this by overwhelming evidence,” he said.

Webb said it was “just plain wrong” for a Black gay man like Smollett to
stage a phony hate crime, using symbols of racism like a noose and use of
the N-word.

“To outright denigrate something as serious, as heinous, as a real hate
crime — to denigrate it and then make sure it involved words and symbols
that have such horrible historical significance in the our country,” Webb
said.

But Smollett’s defense attorney asserted the prosecution’s case is based
on the testimony of liars, calling the Osundairo brothers “the worst type
of criminals.”

“The entire prosecution case including the foundation of their case is
built like a house of cards, and we all know what happens to a house of
cards when you apply a little pressure: it crumbles,” defense attorney
Nenye Uche said.

Uche said the Osundairo brothers accusing Smollett of staging a hoax was
simply a “blame the victim scam.”

“It’s better than the Nigerian prince scam,” Uche said. “Don’t fall for
it.”

Webb said he believes there were two things that likely stuck with the
jury to convince them to reach a guilty verdict: Smollett’s claim that he
went out around 2 a.m. on a night with temperatures well below freezing to
buy eggs, and that the Osundairo brothers knew where to find him to attack
him; and that Smollett admitted adjusting the rope that was put around his
neck before police arrived.

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“I think my basic argument that it is ridiculous to think that Smollett
left his apartment on the night of January 29th at 2 o’clock in the
morning to go buy eggs, and that that’s his explanation for why he ended
up right at that intersection right at 2 o’clock in the morning, that the
brothers said is where he told them that the attack should take place. So
the fact that it actually happened that way, I think, was pretty
profound,” Webb said. “I also think that sometimes it’s simple things. He
actually rigged that rope after that rope got put on him. I showed the
picture to the jury. Pictures don’t lie. Those pictures showed that he
actually, after he went through this fake attack, wanted to make it look
better, and he jimmied with the rope to make the noose look closer to his
throat, and rustled around. Because the rope, you saw it in the courtroom,
was nice and neat around his neck, because Ola Osundairo didn’t have time
to do much with it, because a car came, and so he ran away, he left the
rope next to his face, Smollett got up, put it around his neck, and then
when it didn’t look bad enough, he changed it, and I think that impacted
the jury.”



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