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2020-03-09 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Illinois Supreme Court Won’t Dismiss Charges Against Jussie Smollett
[BREITBART] The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday refused to throw out charges against former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett
...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted This is MAGA country! while thumping him at 2:30am on a bitter cold night in Chicago and throwing bleach on him, presumably to lighten him up. The story quickly unraveled, and he became a laughingstock and the poster boy for pretend victimization and attention whoredom...
that accuse him of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself and rejected his effort to remove the special prosecutor in the case.

Smollett’s lawyers argued in an emergency petition that Cook County Circuit Judge Michael Toomin overstepped his authority and misinterpreted the law when he ordered the appointment of a special prosecutor. The court did not explain its decision to reject the arguments by Smollett’s lawyers.

Smollett. 37, was initially accused by Cook County prosecutors of falsely reporting to police that the alleged phony attack was real. Sixteen counts of disorderly conduct originally filed against him were dismissed and Toomin found Smollett’s first prosecution was invalid.

After another investigation by special prosecutor Dan Webb, six counts of the same charges we filed against Smollett, to which he pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
last week.
Posted by Fred 2020-03-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 Poor Juicy! He wanted to be famous, and now he is.
Posted by SteveS 2020-03-09 00:52||   2020-03-09 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 The DA who basically pardoned him should also be charged.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-03-09 05:22||   2020-03-09 05:22|| Front Page Top

#3 The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday refused to throw out charges against former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett

Negotiations on the settlement are still pending. These things take time.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-09 06:31||   2020-03-09 06:31|| Front Page Top

#4 if he senses things are going south, he'll call on media allies to interview him while he cries and says he did it only because life is so hard for a gay black man. 'calling attention' to a 'larger truth' as it were.
the question is whether he has worn out his welcome with everyone or if there are still a few useful idiots around
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-03-09 08:13||   2020-03-09 08:13|| Front Page Top

#5 DA's yet another Soros-Fifth Columnist.
Posted by Lex 2020-03-09 08:17||   2020-03-09 08:17|| Front Page Top

#6 I hope they bankrupt his ass with all the legal fees
Posted by Chris 2020-03-09 09:13||   2020-03-09 09:13|| Front Page Top

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