Former 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett will get one last chance to publicly admit to fabricating a 2019 hate-crime attack on himself before learning whether a judge sentences him to prison.
During his trial, the actor testified in his own defense, maintaining his story that two masked men wearing hats bearing former President Donald Trump's"MAGA" motto assaulted him on a street and put a noose around his neck.Actor Jussie Smollett leaves the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago, Feb. 24, 2020.
Samuel L. Jackson and his wife, actress LaTanya Jackson, sent a letter to Linn asking him to"please find an alternative to incarceration." The openly gay actor told police that on Jan. 29, 2019, he was walking on a street near his Chicago apartment around 2 a.m. when he was set upon by two men. The attackers allegedly shouted racist and homophobic slurs before hitting him, pouring"an unknown chemical substance" and wrapping a rope around his neck.
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