Jussie Smollett was reportedly released from jail after posting $150,000 bond on Wednesday night (March 16), just six days after he was sentenced to 150 days and 30 months of probation for staging a hate crime. According to CNN, an Illinois appeals court granted an emergency motion by his defense attorneys, allowing him to stay home as the appeals process plays out.
When the judge handed down his sentence on Friday (March 11), the former Empire actor said matter-of-factly, “Your honor, I respect you and I respect the jury, but I did not do this. And I am not suicidal. And if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself. And you must all know that.”
He was then led out of the courtroom with his fist in the air. Defense attorney Nenye Uche called the sentence “a disgrace” in a subsequent press conference and added, “There is no room for politics in our court system. Regardless of what you think about this case … the real question is, should Black men be walked into jail for a Class 4 felony?”
Cook County Judge James Linn criticized Smollett for a half-hour as he delivered his decision, telling him he “destroyed” his life. Hours after he was locked up, his brother uploaded a video to Instagram and reiterated his brother wasn’t suicidal. He also revealed officials added a note to his file claiming he was at-risk for “self-harm,” something his brother refuted.
Jussie Smollett Brother Reveals He's In Jail Psych Ward As Officials Label Him At Risk For 'Self-Harm'
However, Smollett refused to eat for the last six days, raising the alarm. Smollett’s defense filed an emergency motion last week, arguing he’d be “irreparably harmed” if he serves a sentence for convictions that may be reversed, adding he’d probably serve his jail time before the completion of his appeal. They also brought up COVID-19 risks, citing his compromised immune system.
The court granted the attorneys’ motion, explaining it would be “unable to dispose of the instant appeal before the defendant would have served his entire sentence of incarceration.”
Kamala is shaking in her boots right now….
the black julian assange.
Just stop. Assange exposed U.S. war crimes and global corruption by different countries, and they got his ass in solitary for years and trying to torture that man to death. Jussie is a weirdo who lied for sympathy and money to further his mediocre acting career.
If you donr shut the fuck up forever!!
Juicy Smollèé you better gone ahead and take that your 5 months probation and keep it moving. You @** got caught cause you chose not to pay them n*ggas. You knew them Nigerians was gonna whoop that @$$, or trick off. Everybody in Chicago knew you were bullshittin. Ain’t no n*ggas wearing maga hats in Chicago in the middle of winter.
Amazing what you can do in this country and get away with when u got money..anyone else has no chance or privelege for getting help. Amazing
Apparently he was enjoying it so much in there that they threw his ass out.
Good. Let’s try him again, find him guilty again, fine him for court costs again, and then impose the full 3 term on this piece of work.
I hate being the only person who seems to clearly see what happened here. Y’all think he would really take a chance on destroying his whole career by doing something like that by himself? NO! That was one of these weird ass hoaxes that they pull off all the time and put in the news. I’m sure they hyped him up and told him that he would be, as he said “The Gay 2Pac.” If the hoax worked, he would be looked at as a gay icon forever. He would go down in the history books as the one who stood up to those who attacked him for being gay. Power to the gay people and all that. When the story didn’t add up and people saw through the hoax, they made him hold it by himself. That’s why he’s screaming “I’m not suicidial!” Because he knows how this works. To expose the real truth in this would be to expose that whole system. And people get killed for that.
get a life, man
why keep the guy in jail? there’s no reason. he’s not a violent criminal. house arrest or an ankle bracelet would be fine for him considering his crime
Make sure you keep that same energy for everyone else who doesn’t commit violent crimes.. don’t matter who does what to who. Non violent equals no time
A gay man that DOESNT want to go to prison. Were REALLY living in the Upside down now!
praise be to jesus! thank god!