Jussie Smollett, City of Chicago End Hass Crime Hoax with a settlement

A top -class legal case that attracted national attention and reached the Supreme Court of Illinois seems to be solved. The actor Jussie Smollett and the city of Chicago have achieved the NBC Chicago reports in the civil lawsuit submitted against him and characterizes the end of a six-year legal dispute that began with a police report and ended with the police when she was joking.

Jussie Smollett accused of staging attacks in 2019

In January 2019, Smollett reported to the police that he had become the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in a quarter in Chicago. He described the incident as a hate crime. After an investigation, the police and city official said that Smollett had made the attack, selected the men involved and organized the plan in advance.

The city sued him for $ 130,000 and claimed that his report had prompted the law enforcement authorities to use resources and led to the arrest of two brothers, Ola and Abimbola Osundairo. Smollett denied the allegations and submitted a contrast, with the attack being real.

Smollett was arrested and accused of staging the crime, and a jury in Chicago later charged him in 16 cases. First of all, he should complete civilian service instead of facing law enforcement, which means that the indictment has been dropped. The former mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, called it a “Tunration of justice” due to the agreement between Smollett and prosecutors to avoid serious punishment. According to the public counter reaction, a special prosecutor was assigned to the case who later brought it to court.

Smollett continued to claim that he was innocent and the attack was not planned, even during the statements of the two brothers, who said they were paid for falsifying the attack. Smollett was convicted of five crimes of disordered behavior in 2021. He was convicted of 150 days in prison and 30 months of probation, convicted of $ 25,000 and ordered the city with more than $ 120,000 reimbursement.

The Supreme Court of Illinois raises the conviction

Two years later, in 2024, the Supreme Court of Illinois raised its conviction and decided that Smollett had previously had a non -agreement with the public prosecutors from Cook County and should not be charged again. In his unanimous decision, the judges said that it was more unjustified than a determined case as “a participation of the court that the state was not obliged to agreements to honor, which people have adversely rely on”.

The judges said that Smollets did not negate their decision, but the lack of a proper procedure with which he was faced with during the procedure. Special Prosecutor Dan Webb made an explanation after the decision.

“Don't make a mistake – Today's decision has nothing to do with Mr. Smollets innocence,” he said. “The Illinois's Supreme Court found no mistake with the overwhelming evidence that was presented in the procedure that Mr. Smollett orchestrated a fake hate crime and reported it to the Chicago police department as a real hate crime, or the unanimous judgment of the jury that Mr. Smollett from Mr. Smollett was owed out of five cases.

The conditions of the new agreement were not publicly announced due to the conclusion outside of the court.