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Jussie Smollett Convicted of Lying To the Police About Hate Crime

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Actor Jussie Smollet was convicted in a Chicago court Thursday of six misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct related to false statements to Chicago police officers about a 2019 hate crime against him. In 2019, he claimed that two men attacked him due to his skin color and sexual orientation.

He was found guilty of telling a police officer he was a hate crime victim, telling an officer he was a battery victim, telling a detective he was a hate crime victim, telling a detective he was a battery victim and then telling a detective again he was battery victim. He was not found guilty on a sixth charge of telling a second detective he was an aggravated battery victim.

The sometimes lurid trial definitely got grimy at times and included multiple accounts of Smollett and one of his alleged attackers, Nigerian born Bola Osundairo, doing cocaine and having sex at a bathhouse.

Smollett’s sentencing will happen at some future date and his attorney says they are appealing the ruling.

Smollet’s directorial debut B-Boy Blues will bow in 2022.

 

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