Jussie Smollett faces up to 20 YEARS behind bars after being convicted of hate crime hoax
Daily MailEmpire Star Jussie Smollett faces up to 20 years behind bars after being convicted of faking a racist and homophobic assault. The brothers told police that he hired them because he was angry the studio didn't do more to protect him afterwards This is the rope purchased by the brothers to place around Smollett's neck in the days before the 'hoax' attack The detective on November 30 testified that he thought Smollett tightened the rope around his neck before police arrived to make it look more like a noose But Judge James Linn noted that Smollett's case now was being led by a special prosecutor appointed by another judge, an arrangement that he would not upset. On January 22, 2019, seven days before the attack, Smollett received a letter at the studios of Empire which called him the N-word and a 'f****t.' Chicago Police Detective Michael Theis testified that the brothers claimed Smollett hired them because he was annoyed that producers at Empire didn't take the letter seriously enough, or make enough of a fuss over it. The actor spoke of the night of the attack, saying that he had planned to go to Walgreens to buy groceries on the advice of Abimbola Osundairo, who had become Smollett's paid nutritionist Pictured: Olabinjo Osundairo walks to the Leighton Criminal Courthouse to testify in the trial on December 2 Abel and Ola Osundairo are the brothers who say Smollett paid them to attack him. Jurors also heard during the trial that Smollett told his friends to attack him in front of a police surveillance camera 'for media,' but didn't realize the lens was pointed in the opposite direction.
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