Smollett is due to return to court to learn if a judge will order him locked up for his conviction of lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack that he orchestrated.
Actor Jussie Smollett arrives with his family to the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago, Illinois on Dec. 7, 2021.
Smollett’s lead attorney has said that he’ll ask the judge to dismiss the charges. But judges rarely grant such motions. That meansin a criminal case, subject to appeal, that made international headlines when the Black and openly gay Smollett reported to police that two men wearing ski masks beat him and hurled racial and homophobic slurs at him on a dark Chicago street and ran off.
In December, Smollett was convicted in a trial that included the testimony of two brothers who told jurors Smollett paid them to carry out the attack, gave them money for the ski masks and rope, instructed them to fashion the rope into a noose and then told them exactly what to shout when they carried out the fake attack.
Smollett, who knew the men from his work on the television show that filmed in Chicago called “Empire,” testified that he did not recognize them and did not know they were the men attacking him. Smollett will be given a chance to speak to the judge and he could repeat some of the things he told jurors during the trial about how he was simply a victim of a violent crime.Smollett could tell the judge as he told jurors about his extensive history of volunteering and donating to charitable causes.
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