Jussie Smollett Update 2024

Jussie Smollett Update 2024. In springfield tuesday, the attorney for former “empire” actor jussie smollett asked justices to reverse his client’s 2021 disorderly conduct conviction. The illinois supreme court on thursday overturned actor jussie smollett’s conviction on allegations that he staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself in.

The justices didn’t deny that smollett, a black man who identifies as gay, had staged a hate crime and publicly lied about attackers shouting homophobic and racist slurs while. The illinois supreme court heard arguments tuesday in actor jussie smollett’s appeal to overturn his conviction on disorderly conduct charges for falsifying a hate crime.