Jussie Smollett tries to get conviction overturned AGAIN, this time telling Illinois Supreme Court he should never have been prosecuted

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[algore]

Jussie Smollett is trying to get his conviction for faking an attack overturned again - this time claiming he should never have been prosecuted in the first place.

The Empire star is arguing he shouldn't have been charged with felony disorderly conduct in December 2021 because prosecutors made a deal to dismiss the first indictment.

Smollett's attorneys filed legal documents with Illinois Supreme Court detailing the deal, which involved him doing community service and forfeiting his bond in return for charges being dropped.

The actor is taking his appeal to the state's highest court after it was previously denied by the Appellate Court of Cook County.

Smollett was jailed in 2021 for staging an anti-gay, racist hate crime on himself and filing a false police report in January 2019.

'What should have been a straightforward case has been complicated by the intersection of politics and public outrage,' Smollett's attorneys wrote in their Monday filing with the state's highest court.

During the police probe into the incident, Chicago cops concluded that Smollett had hired brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo to carry out the crime.

Smollett was convicted on five counts of disorderly conduct, sentenced to 150 days in jail, 30 months felony probation and $120,106 in restitution to the City of Chicago and a $25,000 fine.

However, he only served six days in jail before he was released on March 16, 2022 when his lawyer's filed an appeal.

Now the Appellate Court of Cook County has denied the appeal Smollett may be required to complete the rest of his sentence.

During the original sentencing hearing Smollett shouted at the judge that he was innocent, warning that he was not suicidal and if he died in custody it was somebody else, and not him, who would have taken his life.

[Steely Tom]

Yeah, but I'm kind of doubting it's his money.

[Gay State Conservative]

Yup,great stuff. I also liked “white people don’t talk that way.White people don’t even know who he is. It sounds like something *I* would say!”

[lee martell]

Even after he does get let off the hook, I expect Jussie to still come forth a few times a year, just to protest over “how he was treated by the courts and all those right wing Mobs chasing after him on Twitter and elsewhere!”

How else is he going to get any new waves of attention, since most cable show producers don’t want to hire him?
The View will have him on. Maybe he’ll even join the girls as a permanent host!