Court orders Jussie Smollett is RELEASED from jail during his appeal
BREAKING NEWS: Court orders Jussie Smollett be RELEASED from jail during his appeal after just six days in prison
Disgraced ‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett will be released after serving just six days in jailJudges sided with his lawyers who argued that he would be finished with his sentence before the appeals process was completeHe was sentenced to 150 days after being convicted of five felony counts of disorderly conduct for falsely reporting a racist and homophobic attack in 2019Smollett could have served just 75 days with good behaviorHe had been kept in psychiatric care in a ‘restraint bed’ in the Cook County Jail
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Disgraced ‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett will be released from jail after just six days behind bars.
Judges ruled that he should go free while his lawyers work on the appeal of his conviction on five felony counts of lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack.
He will be released from the Cook County Jail on a $150,000 personal recognizance bond.
Smollett, who has been serving his time in psychiatric care, was sentenced to 150 days behind bars.
Jussie Smollett will be released from jail after just six days behind bars
Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail last week (above) for orchestrating a fake racist attack against himself in 2019. He maintains his innocence and says he’s being treated unfairly by the justice system
At the beginning of the week, his lawyers submitted an emergency motion in appellate court that included a note from a doctor. The physician said that Smollett has ‘compromised immunity’ and should be released because of the COVID-19 pandemic, though he didn’t clarify what makes Smollett immunocompromised.
On Tuesday, the fallen actor was moved out of the psych ward where he had been forced to sleep on a ‘restraint bed’ and into general population in the detention center.
The actor’s lawyers had argued to the panel of judges that his sentence would be fully served by the time the appeals process was completed.
Smollet’s release is just another bizarre twist on a strange story of an bit actor trying to raise his profile by fabricating a hate crime against himself.
In January 2019, Smollett, who is black and gay, told Chicago police that he was attacked by two men wearing ski masks making racist and homophonic remarks.
After a brief manhunt, police turned their focus on Smollett who they said paid two men that he knew from the TV show to stage the attack.
He was convicted in December on five counts of disorderly conduct due to misleading the cops. He was acquitted of a sixth count.
Judge James Linn sentenced him to 150 days with the chance of reducing his incarceration to 75 days with good behavior.
Smollett’s theatrics continued even through his sentencing when he shouted to the judge that he was innocent and that if he died behind bars it would not be suicide, but murder.
More to come…
