Jussie Smollett Sentenced To Prison For Staging Hate Crime
March 12, 2022
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as posted by the channelFormer “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to 150 days in prison and 30 months of probation for making false police reports and statements about a falsified hate crime from 2019. Now that Smollett has been sentenced to prison time, his life could be in danger as he enters the general prison population of Cook County Prison. Cenk Uygur, Adrienne Lawrence, and Rayyvana discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 68 pm ET.
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"Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced Thursday to 30 months of felony probation, including 150 days in jail, and ordered to pay restitution of more than $120,000 and a $25,000 fine for making false reports to police that he was the victim of a hate crime in January 2019.
After the judge announced his sentence, Smollett lowered his face mask and said he was innocent. “Your honor, I respect you and I respect the jury, but I did not do this,” the actor told the judge, before turning to the court. “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.”
Just before he was taken into custody, the actor yelled again that he was innocent and raised a fist in the air.
Cook County Judge James Linn spoke for more than 30 minutes before announcing Smollett’s sentence, telling the actor that he wrote the script and picked the actors for the hoax, and that his premeditation for the act was an “aggravating factor” in the case."
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