Jussie Smollett learned his long-awaited fate when he was sentenced on Thursday after being convicted last year of staging a hate crime against himself and lying about it to Chicago law enforcement.
Gloria Rodriguez, the attorney for the Osundairo brothers, who at the time of Smollett’s conviction in December said her clients "could not be more thrilled" with the guilty verdict that absolved them, provided a statement to Fox News Digital after Smollett’s sentencing.
jury did not buy the fake act. tucker: it must ve been bewildering for them because they were there and you exactly what happened to hear jussie smollett describe this fantasy with a straight face. what kind of person could do that? you are right to take the stand if you are the defendant. it carries obvious risks with it. but it s not your right to lied to the jury. you don t have the right to make up your own set of facts. one of the osb, the office of special prosecutors, my favorite part of this trial was watching the sam mendenhall, what an amazing attorney from that team pretty kept saying in his closing remarks, you are entitled to your own opinion. you are not entitled to your own facts. that s what jussie smollett kept trying to do, change the facts. as much as he tried to sell that story, it didn t make any sense.