ultimately the jury rejected smollett s testimony that he did not stage a fake hate crime for publicity. sara sidner is live in chicago, joining us this morning. sara, what do we expect from the sentencing? so the judge has a great deal of discrepancy here. he can decide to send smollett to jail for up to three years, and give him a $25,000 fine, or he can decide not to give jussie smollett any jail time. it is up to the judge s discretion in this case. we should mention that those five of six counts that he was found guilty on have to do with what he told police in january of 2019, two of those are him falsely reporting that he was the victim of a hate crime, and three of those are because he falsely reported that he was the victim of a battery. it was all from the same overnight, early morning alleged
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