Judge weighing kicking Jussie Smollett s new lawyer off case
DON BABWIN, Associated Press
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CHICAGO (AP) An attorney hired by Jussie Smollett to lead the actor s defense against charges accusing him of lying to Chicago police is now fighting to stay on the case after another attorney accused him of talking to two key witnesses about representing them.
Cook County Judge James Linn said during a hearing Tuesday that he needs to determine if Nenye Uche talked to Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundario in the days after Smollett reported that two masked men attacked him in downtown Chicago.
The brothers are crucial to the case because they told authorities that Smollett a Black and openly gay man who starred in the television program “Empire” paid them to fake the racist and homophobic attack in January 2019.
Judge weighing kicking Jussie Smollett s new lawyer off case
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