Jussie Smollett Defense Team Plan Appeal After ‘Empire’ Star Found Guilty By Jury Over 2019 Faked Assault – Update
“The verdict is inconsistent,” defense lawyer Nenye Uche said this evening in the lobby of the Leighton Criminal Courthouse after a jury found Smollett guilty of five of six felony charges on Thursday. “You can’t say Jussie is lying and say Jussie is not lying for the same exact incidents,” the attorney proclaimed.
Claiming he was the victim of an assault in the early hours of January 29, 2019 by two men chanting “MAGA Country,” the actor who played Jamal Lyon on the primetime Fox soap faces a sentence of up to three years behind bars and a $25,000 fine. The relatively fast decision announced in Cook County Judge James Linn’s courtroom comes after under 10 hours of deliberation by the six men and six woman jury over the past day. The jury actually told the court that they had reached a verdict around 2:15 PM PT today. The time span between then and now was because it took a bit for Smollett, his lawyers, family members, special prosecutor Daniel Webb and others to return to the Leighton Criminal Courthouse for the verdict to be read out.
In closing arguments on Wednesday, Webb called the evidence of Smollett’s set-up of the hoax attack “overwhelming.” Decrying a claim of a phony hate crime demeaning real hate crimes, the special prosecutor went on to mock the inconsistencies of Smollett’s “false testimony” about the contentious matter.
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