Actor Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail for lying about hate crime
Describing Smollett’s crime as “a crime of opportunity” and a “crime of premeditation,” Cook County Judge James Linn also sentenced the actor to 30 months of felony probation and ordered him to pay more than $120,000 in restitution to the city of Chicago and a maximum fine of $25,000.
Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was found guilty on five of six counts after staging an attack on himself in 2019. This Q&A explains how we got here. The Jacksons, who have known Smollett since he was a baby, asked “for mercy” and an alternative to incarceration for Smollett for the low-level Class 4 felony. Rev. Jesse L. Jackson wrote the statement for RPC.
Linn added that he saw the good sides of Smollett during the trial but also saw his dark side, one that was “throwing a national pity party” for himself and ultimately hurt victims of real hate crimes. He called Smollett “profoundly arrogant and selfish and narcissistic” in carrying out the 2019 incident and lying to authorities about it.
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