Jussie Smollett Confidently Walks Into Court docket For Listening to

The Jussie Smollett case is one the more bizarre occasions that is occurred in 2019 up to now. The singer gained public sympathy after alleging he was a sufferer a hate crime solely to be accused staging the assault himself. Though he is maintained his innocence, the court docket public opinion is not shopping for it. Nevertheless, he is adamant that he is confirmed harmless and he plans on being energetic in his protection all through the trial.

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Jussie Smollett confidently walked into the Cooks County Courthouse for a listening to on his case however he wasn’t really required to be there. The listening to was really for his lawyer, Mark Geragos, to finalize his paperwork in an effort to symbolize Jussie within the state Illinois. TMZ’s sources declare that the actor is working in the direction of being an energetic participant in his protection relatively than an observer. The “Empire” actor has been preserving a low prile ever for the reason that alleged assault went down earlier this yr however he is reportedly finished with hiding from the general public.

Jussie Smollett’s case reached a brand new degree on Friday after a grand jury revealed that he is been indicted on 16 felony counts for submitting a false police report — one rely for every alleged false assertion he supplied to police throughout two interviews. His lawyer responded by claiming that the indictment “is nothing greater than a determined try to make headlines in an effort to distract from the interior investigation launched to analyze the outrageous leaking false data by the Chicago Police Division.”