Where are you, muth'f*cker?Originally Posted by RBP
"affluent Chicago bathhouse"
Where are you, muth'f*cker?"affluent Chicago bathhouse"
It's like he and his legal team just keep throwing things at a wall to see what they can get to stick.He'll probably win, just through sheer persistence and exhaustion of the attorneys office
(and being black)
lost in melb. (09-11-2020)
Jussie Smollett's testimony was 'unparalleled disaster,' jury will see through 'ruse' and convict him: experts
By Julius Young | Fox News
Jussie Smollett made the conscientious decision to testify in his own defense against allegations from prosecutors in Chicago that the actor staged a vile hate crime against himself with the assistance of his associates, brothers Abimbola and Olabingo Osundairo, who allege he paid them to carry out the fake hate crime attack against him in 2019.
While the former "Empire" performer gave a whirlwind testimony over the course of two days that saw Smollett vehemently state in no uncertain terms that the allegations are "100% false" despite what the Osundairo brothers previously testified, some legal experts believe Smollett did himself no favors and likely hurt his defense by taking the stand.
"Smollett testifying in his own defense is one of two things, or maybe both: a narcissistic criminal defendant who is doubling down on his charged lies to law enforcement or defense attorneys who know they are way behind and are throwing a low probability Hail Mary to try to get their client off," former U.S. attorney Neama Rahmani, who is not involved with Smollett's case, told Fox News Digital.
Rahmani added: "Either way, Smollett’s story was a bizarre attempt at forcing a square peg into a round hole by offering every possible explanation for the state’s digital evidence except the most obvious one: that he is guilty. In the unlikely event he is acquitted, Smollett’s decision was a genius move. But it is far more likely that the jury sees through his ruse and Smollett is convicted. If so, the judge may sentence him to prison time for obstructing justice and perjuring himself on the witness stand."
James White, a high-powered attorney in Michigan who is also not involved in the Smollett case, echoed Rahmani's comments that the actor’s testimony was nothing more than "an unparalleled disaster." White noted that he believes Smollett not only "hurt his case" but also "went beyond and made the prosecutor’s case" in the process.
"His story is so unbelievable and in the face of the evidence that no reasonable jury is ever going to buy it," White said of Smollett’s time on the stand in which he admitted to doing drugs with Bola Osundairo and mentioned other personal anecdotes that White believes "[weren't] relevant" to Smollett’s defense.
"I think that he absolutely buried himself to the extent he wasn't already buried," White pressed.
Although White acknowledged closing arguments have yet to be made and the jury is yet to deliver a verdict, he said Smollett’s testimony "was almost indecipherable trying to make sense of it, and I just don't see how any reasonable jury is going to find any truth in anything he said."
The litigator also contended that Smollett should not have taken the stand at all.
"The real issue of the real story here is why was he even up there taking the stand?" questioned White. "So for me, the million-dollar question, which really hasn't played out during the course of the trial to the extent that I've seen is, did his attorneys try to stop this? Or were they a part of this plan? Because if it's the latter, that's a problem."
Added White: "To go up in international media coverage and do what he did if it was sanctioned by his counsel, that's concerning to me. I don't think that it's anything that will reverse convictions or anything to that degree, but it's concerning."
However, Peter M. Walzer, a founding partner at Los Angeles-based Walzer Melcher family law firm, who is also not involved in the case, explained to Fox News Digital that in his estimation, Smollett’s entire business model in this instance is rooted in "persuasion," and seeing as though the jury is weighing Smollett’s word against that of the Osundairo brothers, Smollett "is the only one who can refute the allegations made against him."
Closing statements in Smollett’s trial are set to begin Wednesday before jurors are dismissed for deliberation.
Smollett is charged with six counts of felony disorderly conduct for lying to police by filing a false police report about the alleged attack — one count for each time he gave a report — to three different officers.
The class 4 felony carries a prison sentence of up to three years, but experts have said if Smollett is convicted he likely would be placed on probation and ordered to perform community service.
So he thought he could act his way out of it but found out, a)his script sucks and 2)he can't act for shit.
Teh One Who Knocks (12-08-2021)
By Tim Pearce - The Daily Wire
CHICAGO — Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett took the stand for the second day in his trial over the alleged hoax attack against him in January 2019.
In his second day of testimony, Smollett was reprimanded multiple times by the judge for getting into testy exchanges with prosecutor Dan Webb and refusing to give straight answers to questions. Judge James Linn warned Smollett several times to stick to answering the questions put before him and to refrain from getting into arguments.
The second day of Smollett’s testimony picked up again on Smollett’s story as he continued to deny allegations that the 2019 attack against him was staged. Smollett began his testimony repeatedly snapping at Webb as the prosecutor peppered the actor with questions about the incident.
“There was no hoax,” Smollett said shortly after questioning began amid his numerous denials, “so any question you ask about that is going to be denied.”
Webb soon came to Instagram messages between Smollett and Bola Osundairo, Smollett’s former trainer who has testified to faking the attack on Smollett for $3,500. Smollett and Osundairo messaged each on Instagram throughout the evening of January 28, 2019, and early into the next morning in what prosecutors said was coordination to set up a hoax hate crime. Smollett claimed that he and Osundairo were communicating over a planned workout.
In questioning the defendant over Instagram, Smollett at one point snapped, “Mr. Webb, with all due respect, you do not understand Instagram.”
“You’re misrepresenting me to the jury and to the entire court, and it’s not fair,” Smollett said, according to the New York Post. “Without showing the actual Insta stories that I posted, they’re not getting the full story so they don’t understand.”
After Webb tried to smooth things over by appealing to his “older” age, Judge Linn stepped in and lectured Smollett on his testy response to the prosecutor, “Just answer his questions without arguing. Your lawyer will have a chance to clear it up,” Linn said.
As Webb read through Smollett’s Instagram messages, the actor objected to the prosecutor quoting Smollett’s own use of the slur “n***a.” The first time Webb used the word, quoting from Smollett’s first message to Osundairo on January 28, Smollett visibly winced and let out a slight “oh.”
The second time Webb used the slur, quoting from Smollett’s third message to Osundairo, Smollett blurted, “Can you just spell the word or not say it out of respect for every African American in the room?”
Webb, saying he meant no disrespect for the coarse language in Smollett’s messages, asked the actor if he would read the messages aloud to the courtroom himself. Smollett did without censoring the slur himself.
Smollett is facing six felony charges of disorderly conduct for filing false police reports. The charges carry a potential jail sentence of up to three years. Smollett is expected to escape lockup if found guilty, however. Because nobody was physically hurt by his alleged crime and his lack of a criminal history, experts expect that Smollett would receive probation and community service if found guilty.
Smollett’s defense team rested its case Tuesday afternoon, and Linn dismissed the court for the day. Closing arguments and jury deliberation in the case is expected to begin on Wednesday.
I'm shocked he hasn't claimed they are lynching him just because he's black. C'mon Juicy, pull the race card! I hope they bust him for perjury after they find him guilty.
Me too.. Actions deserve consequences..
I believe this will be the outcome of the hoax.
but, since he is acting like a smug entitled dick in court perpetuating the hoax, I think the judge will give him all he can for perjury.
lost in melb. (12-09-2021), Muddy (12-08-2021), Teh One Who Knocks (12-09-2021)
BLM backs Jussie Smollett: ‘We can never believe the police’
By Kenneth Garger - New York Post
Black Lives Matter is backing Jussie Smollett — who’s on trial for allegedly staging a hate crime attack — because “we can never believe the police,” a founder of the movement said in a statement.
“As abolitionists, we approach situations of injustice with love and align ourselves with our community,” Dr. Melina Abdullah, Director of BLM Grassroots and Co-Founder of BLM Los Angeles, said in a Tuesday statement.
“In an abolitionist society, this trial would not be taking place, and our communities would not have to fight and suffer to prove our worth,” Abdullah said.
“In our commitment to abolition, we can never believe police, especially the Chicago Police Department (CPD) over Jussie Smollett, a Black man who has been courageously present, visible, and vocal in the struggle for Black freedom,” the statement continued.
Smollett, who was charged with six felony counts of disorderly conduct, claims that two men yelled anti-gay, racist remarks and hit him in Chicago in January 2019.
Prosecutors in the case have said the 39-year-old actor planned the ruse to get attention — a claim Smollett has repeatedly denied.
Jurors in the case began deliberating on Wednesday and are set to resume on Thursday morning.
That terrorist organization needs to be taken down and its leaders locked up.
DemonGeminiX (12-09-2021), Muddy (12-09-2021)
The jury has reached a verdict. Waiting for everyone to return to the courthouse.
Guilty on all charges
lost in melb. (12-10-2021), Muddy (12-09-2021), Pony (12-10-2021)
Time for BLM riots?
Those pesky jurors of normal people always getting in the way of true progress..
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