Posted on 02/11/2020 1:52:23 PM PST by TigerClaws
"Empire" actor Jussie Smollet was indicted Tuesday by a special prosecutor in Chicago investigating allegations he bogusly reported being the victim of a January 2019 hate-crime attack, officials said.
Smollett, 37, was indicted by special prosecutor Dan Webb, who was appointed by a Cook County judge to continue looking into his false allegations after the Cook County State’s Attorney Office dropped all charges against the actor, a source close to Smollett told ABC news.
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Racism!!!
Little Punk......Gotcha....And he made it all about race. Dumb a**.
I am sure this will turn into a long muddle with Smolett’s attorney crying double jeopardy. But at least it’s something.
Good news but I wonder if this is double jeopardy.
Good, this is as it should be.
I think this should be in “Breaking News.”
Jeopardy only applies once the defendant is arraigned and formally charged in court.
Whoa, say it ain’t so, Jussie! Your sandwich-fu was so strong...
I am impressed.
Less so that this is the first “local” anti-American enemy combatant to be held criminally accountable for his crimes against America after Trump’s election, but I’ll take it.
Correction. Apparently once a jury is sworn is jeopardy attached.
It can’t be Double Jeopardy.
This lying douche wad has never been tried in the first place.
No double jeopardy. Case never went to court.
How long before his crime gets linked to Spartacus and Heels Up Harris?
“Jeopardy only applies once the defendant is arraigned and formally charged in court.”
Precisely and what’s her name circumvented that process before it ever reached that stage.
I wanna see action taken against her as well.
This smells of election season race baiting to get the black vote out and angry.
has it been unsealed ?
How many counts ?
Hmmmm....
Is this the same guy?
“I made the decision that I wouldn’t be able to look at my grandkids if I voted for Trump,” said Dan Webb, a former federal prosecutor and a self-described “Republican for decades” working to win over prominent Republican business people in Chicago.
Bm
See post #18. :-(
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