Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail, 30 months of probation

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 Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail, 30 months of probation BREAKING

UPDATE: Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to 150 days of jail and 30 months of probation. He will have to pay back the City of Chicago just over $120,000 in restitution and was also fined $25,000.

Following the sentencing, he had an emotional outburst and screamed “I am not suicidal and I did not do it.”


CHICAGO — Jussie Smollett — the former “Empire” actor convicted last year of staging a racist, homophobic attack on himself and then lying to Chicago police about it — will be sentenced by a Cook County judge Thursday, ending another chapter in one of the most high-profile disorderly conduct cases in Chicago’s history.

Smollett’s punishment will be meted out by Judge James Linn, who presided over Smollett’s eight-day trial in November and December 2021 when the actor was found guilty on five counts of disorderly conduct — a low level felony charge in Illinois that carries a maximum of three years in prison.

With Smollett’s minimal criminal history, experts say a prison sentence is not likely. A sentence of probation, community service or a fine, however, is in play.

During the hearing, Judge Linn denied the defense’s motion for a new trial.

“We’ve been talking about these very issues for the last couple of years,” Linn said. “I’ve never had a case that’s been pled as exhaustively as this one.”

Smollett testified in his defense during last year’s trial and he steadfastly denied any involvement in the phony hate crime plan. After he was convicted, Smollett’s lead defense attorney, Nenye Uche, vowed to appeal.

At Thursday’s hearing, Smollett will once again have the chance to address the court. Unlike the trial, though, Linn will this time allow news cameras inside his courtroom to broadcast the proceedings.

While Thursday’s sentencing hearing could mark the end of Smollett’s criminal case, two federal lawsuits tied to the case are still proceeding.

In one suit, the city is seeking to recoup $130,000 that was spent on police overtime costs incurred during the initial “hate crime” investigation.


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Matt Finn
@MattFinnFNC
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Judge just denied Smollett’s request for a new trial. Break. Then onto the sentencing

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https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1502085806680330242

[Hoodat]

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

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https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1502085960380522496

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Carmine Sabia
@CarmineSabia
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I would have paid the $100,000 for @JussieSmollett
 if he shouted "This is MAGA country" instead of "I am not suicidal" in court.

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https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1502080677533077518

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Matt Finn
@MattFinnFNC
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BREAKING: Smollett sentenced to 150 days in Jail. 30 months felony probation.     $120k restitution. $25k fine.

[Wingnut]

Will they let him have a noose in his cell? 

[GtHawk]

Will they let him have a noose in his cell?

I don't know, but he should be quite popular, being a experienced catcher and all.

[mrclose]

Jussie Smollett got the last laugh on Subway.
He just won 5 months of free foot longs.

[sneakypete]

We are all thinking it,so I will say it.

If he had been white,he WOULD have gone to jail for this because "hate crime" would have been added to his sentence.

After all,don't we see blacks serving time all over the country for committing hate crimes against white people? (sarcasm alert)

[mountaineer]

"I'm not suicidal!" he cried, as visions of Jeffrey Epstein danced through his head.

[Kamaji]

We are all thinking it,so I will say it.

If he had been white,he WOULD have gone to jail for this because "hate crime" would have been added to his sentence.

After all,don't we see blacks serving time all over the country for committing hate crimes against white people? (sarcasm alert)

If he was white, he'd have been charged with more serious crimes, and would have been sentenced to substantially more jail time.

[Polly Ticks]

"I'm not suicidal!" he cried, as visions of Jeffrey Epstein danced through his head.

Right?  I wonder what he knows about Hillary.

[mountaineer]

March 11, 2022
Cook County prosecutor Kim Foxx has an insane take on Jussie Smollett's case
By Andrea Widburg

Kim Foxx, who achieved her position as Cook County state's attorney (i.e., the Chicago D.A.), has written an opinion piece that's ostensibly about Jussie Smollett's case but that actually lets us look into the bizarre and backward world of leftist "justice," bought and paid for with George Soros money.  ...

That entire story is obviously a black mark against Foxx.  Therefore, she took to the pages of the Chicago Sun-Times to give her version of the Smollett story.  And that's where you find out that the abuse of city resources wasn't Smollett's self-aggrandizing hoax.  Instead, the abuse was the Smollett trial, which came about because people who hate Black female prosecutors wanted to humiliate her, as they've been doing across America to other female Black prosecutors:

On Thursday, the damaging, costly, and disingenuous criminal prosecution of Jussie Smollett came to an end. As Cook County State's Attorney, it pains me deeply to say that, in this particular case, our justice system failed.

[snip]

Given the reputational price Smollett paid, the $10,000 bond we held, and the fact that he'd never been accused of a violent crime, my office made the decision not to further pursue a criminal conviction. This story should have ended there, as thousands upon thousands of non-prosecuted cases do every day.

Instead, taxpayers have since spent millions of dollars for the criminal prosecution of a hoax. Last year alone there were over 800 murders in Chicago. My administration has vacated over 177 wrongful convictions, 87 of those in the last 3 years. Rather than working collaboratively to stem rising crime or free the wrongly convicted, a small group of people hijacked the judicial system to enact what is best described as mob justice. ...

The entire article continues in the same vein, turning leftist government bullies into helpless victims while maligning the innocent and whitewashing the guilty.  It is a masterpiece of the type of dishonesty one expects from a sociopath.  (Whether Foxx is a sociopath is something only her therapist, if she has one, knows for sure.) ...

More at American Thinker

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I wonder if the word is out to do something to him while in jail so Kim Foxx can justify her humanitarian act in dropping charges.

Smollett is small potatoes compared to the BLM agenda of hate crimes against police, and can be used as a plaything then easily discarded.

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Cruel: Jussie Smollett Will Be Forced To Share A Jail Cell With His Attacker

December 9th, 2021



CHICAGO, IL—People are protesting in the streets today after human rights groups revealed Jussie Smollett will be forced to share a jail cell with his racist attackers.

"This is an outrage!" said Reverend Jesse Jackson. "Not only was Mr. Smollett attacked by hateful racist bigots who want to tear our country apart, but now he has to share a jail cell with them? This is cruel and unusual punishment. This is the kind of thing that happens in our white supremacist country. Send me money!"

Criminal justice watchdogs also revealed that in addition to sharing a cell with his attackers, he will have to share his toothbrush, his bunk bed, and clothes. They expressed worry that this may lead to Jussie Smollet suffering further racist and homophobic attacks from other attackers named Jussie Smollett while in prison.

When asked for comment, Jussie Smollet angrily yelled "This is MAGA country!" before punching himself in the face.

https://babylonbee.com/news/cruel-jussie-smollett-forced-to-share-a-jail-cell-with-his-attacker

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Cruel: Jussie Smollett Will Be Forced To Share A Jail Cell With His Attacker

December 9th, 2021



CHICAGO, IL—People are protesting in the streets today after human rights groups revealed Jussie Smollett will be forced to share a jail cell with his racist attackers.

"This is an outrage!" said Reverend Jesse Jackson. "Not only was Mr. Smollett attacked by hateful racist bigots who want to tear our country apart, but now he has to share a jail cell with them? This is cruel and unusual punishment. This is the kind of thing that happens in our white supremacist country. Send me money!"

Criminal justice watchdogs also revealed that in addition to sharing a cell with his attackers, he will have to share his toothbrush, his bunk bed, and clothes. They expressed worry that this may lead to Jussie Smollet suffering further racist and homophobic attacks from other attackers named Jussie Smollett while in prison.

When asked for comment, Jussie Smollet angrily yelled "This is MAGA country!" before punching himself in the face.

https://babylonbee.com/news/cruel-jussie-smollett-forced-to-share-a-jail-cell-with-his-attacker

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Whitlock: Jussie Smollett and his grandmother believe he is Nelson Mandela
Jason Whitlock
March 11, 2022

Inside a Chicago courtroom early Thursday evening, the man Jesse Jackson described as a “well-known, nonviolent, black, gay man of Jewish heritage” cast himself as Nelson Mandela.

As sheriffs escorted civil rights actorvist Jussie Smollett to a Cook County jail cell, the convicted felon thrust his half-black fist into the air, declared his innocence, and shouted “I am not suicidal.”

Bizarre does not adequately describe the courtroom proceedings that ended with a judge sentencing Smollett to 150 days in jail and 30 months of probation and the former TV star emphatically posturing as a political prisoner, America’s Mandela.

Smollett arrived at his sentencing “fashionably” late, like a celeb taking his NBA Finals courtside seat minutes after tipoff. On the way into the courtroom, Smollett, his entourage, and bodyguards shoved their way past members of the media, knocking one man to the ground. Once inside, Smollett’s nightmare team of lawyers and character witnesses constantly relitigated the five guilty verdicts from his race-hoax trial, condescendingly lectured the judge, and displayed a level of arrogance, entitlement, and cluelessness that would embarrass an off-the-wagon Hunter Biden. ...

Jussie Smollett made it to the promised land, the land where Barack Obama, Colin Kaepernick, Brian Flores, Meghan Markle, Trevor Noah, Don Lemon, and other elite BIPOCs are told the truth doesn’t apply to them. They exist in a bubble of delusion and confusion created specifically for them by their liberal political puppet masters and policed by corporate media.

Smollett was groomed for this bubble since birth. His family clearly nurtured and fed the arrogance, selfishness, and narcissism Judge Linn found “astounding.” There’s no other explanation for Smollett’s family’s unhinged desperation to shield him from the consequences of his race hoax. ...

Entire article at The Blaze

[Hoodat]

Jussie Smollett and his grandmother believe he is Nelson Mandela

Works for me.  Nelson Mandela spent 27 years of his life behind bars.  Enjoy your stay, Jussie. 

[Kamaji]

What a nut-job.

[Hoodat]

Oh, and Nelson Mandela didn't cry like a little b!tch when he received his sentence.  On the contrary, he took his sentence like a man.

[DCPatriot]

Cruel: Jussie Smollett Will Be Forced To Share A Jail Cell With His Attacker

December 9th, 2021



CHICAGO, IL—People are protesting in the streets today after human rights groups revealed Jussie Smollett will be forced to share a jail cell with his racist attackers.

"This is an outrage!" said Reverend Jesse Jackson. "Not only was Mr. Smollett attacked by hateful racist bigots who want to tear our country apart, but now he has to share a jail cell with them? This is cruel and unusual punishment. This is the kind of thing that happens in our white supremacist country. Send me money!" [/size]

Criminal justice watchdogs also revealed that in addition to sharing a cell with his attackers, he will have to share his toothbrush, his bunk bed, and clothes. They expressed worry that this may lead to Jussie Smollet suffering further racist and homophobic attacks from other attackers named Jussie Smollett while in prison.

When asked for comment, Jussie Smollet angrily yelled "This is MAGA country!" before punching himself in the face.

https://babylonbee.com/news/cruel-jussie-smollett-forced-to-share-a-jail-cell-with-his-attacker

LOL!  Love it!   

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Inside the Cook County jail where Jussie Smollett will serve at least two months along with 6,000 inmates: Cramped dorms, riots in the mess hall and limited visits are what disgraced star can expect

    Smollett, 39, has been sentenced to 150 days but he is eligible to serve half for good behavior - a little over two months
    He will carry out the sentence in the Cook County Jail, which is central Chicago near the courthouse
    The actor is currently being held in the medical unit but it's unclear if he will spend his entire sentence there
    Cook County Jail has 6,000 inmates, the vast majority of whom are black men awaiting trial
    Those who are serving their sentences there have been given terms of two years or less for low level crimes
    Smollett had been facing three years in prison and could have gone to a higher security maximum facility
    Judge James Linn ignored his pleas for mercy and told him yesterday: 'This is happening' as he was led away
    Judge Linn blasted Smollett for his 'astounding hypocrisy' and called him a 'charlatan' 
    Smollett - who was convicted of lying to police about being the victim of a hate attack - erupted in court
    He said if anything happened to him in jail it was the judge's fault; he previously said he feared for his safety as a 'black, gay Jewish man' 

By Jennifer Smith, Chief Reporter For Dailymail.Com

Published: 09:40 EST, 11 March 2022 | Updated: 14:51 EST, 11 March 2022

For the last three years, actor Jussie Smollett has been the martyring star of a long drawn-out, legal circus.

But on Friday morning, the 39-year-old woke up as inmate #20220310140, one of 6,000 convicts and suspects in the Cook County Jail, serving the first day of a 150-day sentence for lying to police.

Yesterday, Smollett - once a darling of the music and TV world for his success on the show Empire - was sentenced to 150 days in jail.






These are the cells in Division 8- the medical unit where Smollett is currently being held

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The star was convicted in December of five counts of felony four disorderly conduct - the lowest level of felony in Illinois.

Facing a maximum sentence of three years, his attorneys yesterday begged for a non-custodial sentence and enlisted Hollywood heavyweights Samuel L. Jackson and Alfre Woodard to plead their case.

It wasn't enough to persuade Judge James Linn against imposing jail time.

After patiently listening to Smollett's attorneys blame the jury,  the media and the prosecutors for his conviction, Linn imposed a 150-day sentence and blasted Smollett's 'astounding hypocrisy'.

The actor has claimed throughout that he is the victim of a racist and homophobic campaign by the Chicago Police Department and prosecutor's office.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10602801/Inside-county-jail-Jussie-Smollett-serve-75-days-cramped-cell.html