BREAKING: Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail in hate crime case.
He will spend the first 150 days of his probation in the Cook County jail, starting immediately, Judge James Linn said. He will also have to pay $120,106 restitution to the city of Chicago in addition to the maximum $25,000 fine.
"Let me tell you Mr. Smollett, I know that there is nothing that I will do here today that can come close to the damage you've already done to your own life," Linn said."You've turned your life upside down by your misconduct and shenanigans, you've destroyed your life as you knew it, and there's nothing that any sentencing judge could do to you that can compare to the damage you've already caused yourself.
"I am innocent, and I am not suicidal," Smollett said, after initially refusing to speak during the sentencing."If I did this, then it means that I stuck my fist in the fears of Black Americans in this country for over 400 years and the fears of the LGBT community. Your honor, I respect you and I respect the jury. But I did not do this, and I am not suicidal — and if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself. And you must all know that.
Prosecutors pushed back against the defense team's claims, calling them"finger-pointing and scapegoating." "He is a very loving and caring young man," former"Empire" music director Rich Daniels said on the stand, describing how Smollett gave back to the Chicago community, including visiting students in local schools."I just think the world of him."
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