Empire star of staging a hate crime. According to
The Associated Press, this week’s hearing was to determine if the attorney currently representing the 37-year-old could continue to do so.
Smollett was indicted by a grand jury in February 2020 on six counts of disorderly conduct and is accused of making four separate false reports to the Chicago Police Department. Similar charges against the actor were dismissed by local prosecutors a year prior after authorities accused Smollett of lying about two masked men attacking him on a street in January 2019.
Cook County Judge
James Linn scheduled the hearing this week to see if Smollett’s attorney,