BREAKING: Jussie Smollett sentenced to jail for staging hate crime
CHICAGO – The Jussie Smollett saga has come to an end – for now.
“I am not suicidal. I am innocent, and I’m not suicidal. If I did this, then it means that I stubbed my fist in the fears of black Americans in this country for over 400 years and the fears of the LGBTQ community,” Smollett said. As he handed down the sentence, Judge James Linn called the actor a “disgrace” and his performance during the trial, in which he testified on his own behalf, as “pure perjury.”
“Your performance on the witness stand, this can only be described as pure perjury. You got on the witness stand… you committed hour upon hour upon hour of pure perjury.” The rope used during Jussie Smollett’s staged hate crime.carry a maximum sentence of three years each Smollett paid two Nigerian-born brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, to carry out an attack on him to promote his career because he was “dissatisfied with his salary on ‘Empire,'” according to court papers.“There was no fake attack. … There was an update to my over 5 million followers,” Smollett seethed. “Without showing the actual Insta stories that I posted, they’re not getting the full story so they don’t understand.
“Mr. Smollett had faked a hate crime and then lied to the police about it and then compounded his crimes by lying to the jury during the course of this trial, insulting their intelligence,” Webb said.
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