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Jussy Smollett The city of Chicago has then reached a settlement agreement, Fox News Digital can confirm.
Smollett, 42, and the city have not yet finalized their documents, but they reached an agreement about five months after the actor’s conviction of hate crime hoax was overturned. Details of the contract are unknown. Fox News Digital reached a representative for Smollett for comment.
Black and gay Smollett originally reported to Chicago police that he was the victim Racist and homophobic attacks By two men wearing ski masks in January 2019. He was convicted in 2021 for staging a hate crime himself, but later overthrown.
The two parties will meet again in court on May 29, according to court notice filed Monday and obtained by Fox News Digital.
Jussy Smollett convicted after being overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court
Jussy Smollett and the city of Chicago have reached a settlement. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP | AP Photo/Cheryl Cook)
Illinois Supreme Court has been overturned Smollett’s hate crime hoax Conviction in November.
“Today, we will resolve questions about the state’s responsibility to respect the agreement with the defendant,” the court wrote in a document obtained at the time by Fox News Digital. “Specifically, with the dismissal of the case by Nolle Prosequi, a dismissal is entered as part of an agreement with the defendant and tells us whether the state will allow a second prosecution when the defendant plays a bargain.
“We believe that a second prosecution based on these circumstances is a due process violation, and therefore reverses the defendant’s conviction.”
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Jussie Smollett was charged in February 2019 with disorderly conduct and filing a false police report after being accused of adjusting a false hate crime. He was found not guilty in March 2019, but was charged in February 2020 with six new counts of lying to police. He was convicted of five counts, sentenced to a 150-day sentence and ordered to pay a $145,000 fine. (Chicago Police Station via Getty Images)
Smollett filed a petition for appeal on February 5, 2024, demanding that the Illinois High Court intervene in the ongoing legal drama. The actor’s beliefs Gradual hate crimes It was supported in December 2023.
They repeated arguments from previous appeals, saying his 2021 trial either violated his Fifth Amendment Protection against Double Risk or was punished twice for the same crime. They said he already serves community services and forfeited $10,000 in bonds as part of his 2019 deal with the Cook County State Lawyer’s Office to remove the first 16 count disorderly conduct.
Smollett’s legal team alleged that the state violated the “Norule Prose Agreement” or the nonprojection agreement by prosecuting him again with the hate crime hoax. Under the agreement, Smollett is said to be able to carry out community services, confiscating his bond and the case will be dismissed – as with the postponed prosecutor. Instead, the Great Ju judge recovered the charges in 2020, and he was later convicted.
Jussy Smollett will be led by the court after being sentenced on March 10, 2022 in the Leighton Criminal Court building in Chicago. (Brian Cathera Pool/Getty Images)
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Jussie Smollett speaks to Judge James Linn after his sentence was read on March 10, 2022. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune Via AP, Pool)
The charges against Smollett were initially dropped in 2019. After special prosecutor Kim Foxx called for a new investigation, the “Empire” star was convicted of five felony counts and was later sentenced to 150 days in the county jail. The Illinois Supreme Court held that the special prosecutor’s decision to retry Smollett in the charges violated his rights.
“Today, we will resolve questions about the state’s responsibility to respect the agreement with the defendant,” Smollett’s attorney Mark Jelagos told Fox News Digital at the time. “We believe that a second prosecution based on these circumstances is a due process violation, and therefore reverses the defendant’s conviction.”
Jussie Smollett maintained his innocence through trials, convictions and appeals. (Amy Sussman)
“This is not a fact-based prosecution, but rather an obsessive persecution, and such procedures have no place in our criminal justice system,” Smollett’s lawyer, Neny Uche, told Fox previously. “In the end, we are pleased that the rule of law was a major winner today. We are grateful to the Illinois Supreme Court for restoring Illinois’ orders to jurisdiction in criminal law.”
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