You've gotta be kidding me.
This is the stuff they're hearing in the Illinois Supreme Court.
Yes, the convicted hate crime hoaxer, the man who has become known on both sides of the aisle as an actual joke, Jussie Smollett, is getting out of being punished for his crime.
The 'Empire' actor was convicted in December 2021 of five felony counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly staging a hate crime against himself in 2019 and was sentenced to 150 days in county jail, plus 30 months of probation and $130,000 in restitution.
This happened after the original charges against him were dropped in 2019. He was charged again after a special investigation and spent 6 days in jail before his sentence was suspended, pending appeal.
In an opinion released on Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court found that the special prosecutor's decision to retry Smollett violated his rights.
Yeah, apparently the court is arguing that this was a case of double jeopardy and that he couldn't be tried again, even though he never stood trial for the original charges.
Let this TV attorney explain the legalese:
'We are aware that this case has generated significant public interest and that many people were dissatisfied with the resolution of the original case and believed it to be unjust,' the court's opinion reads. 'Nevertheless, what would be more unjust than the resolution of any one criminal case would be a holding from this court that the State was not bound to honor agreements upon which people have detrimentally relied.'
Yeah. He totally didn't get special treatment because of his celebrity or because he is a gay black guy or because his hoax was designed to stoke hate against Trump supporters.
We all know the Illinois Supreme Court would TOTALLY do the same thing for a non-celebrity white guy who lied to paint Democrats in a bad light ... right?
Good luck on tracking down the MAGA terrorists, Jussie.
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