'EMPIRE' Star Fakes Hate Crime on Self? Jussie Smollett Trial Commences

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Actor Jussie Smollett’s Chicago trial on charges that he faked a hate crime attack on himself has begun. 39-year-old Smollett was starring in the television show “Empire” when he claimed he was attacked by two men who hurled racial and homophobic slurs at him. They also left a noose around his neck. Two brothers who worked as extras on “Empire” later came forward and said Smollett had paid them to “attack” him. Prosecutors charged the actor but Cook County Prosecutor Kim Foxx dropped all the charges in return for community service and forfeiture of his bond. Outrage prompted the appointment of a special prosecutor, who indicted Smollett on six disorderly conduct charges. Joining Nancy Grace Today:Prof. Brian Levin - Director, Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, California State University (San Bernardino), Co-author: "The Limits of Dissent", CSUSB.edu/Hate-and-Extremism-Center, Twitter: @proflevinLAWYER - Wendy Patrick - California prosecutor, author “Red Flags” www.wendypatrickphd.com 'Today with Dr. Wendy' on KCBQ in San Diego, Twitter: @WendyPatrickPHD Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA, www.angelaarnoldmd.com, Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial HospitalJoe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan"Alexis Tereszcuk - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Writer/Fact Checker, Lead Stories dot Com, Twitter: @swimmie2009 TIP LINE: Chicago Police Department (312) 746-6000

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.
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0:45.7	to make them make sense if you will. When all is said and done, I was the voice of the dead.
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0:55.9	Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:05.8	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
1:07.6	Jesse Smollett on trial finally, prosecutors claim he fabricated a hate crime on himself.
1:23.1	Will a jury believe it? I only pray he takes the stand in his own defense.
1:38.7	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. He's billing it as a trial of the century. I doubt that seriously,
1:46.4	but what really burns me up is that I have worked with hate crime victims and prosecuted
1:52.2	hate crimes in front of juries. And if it's true that he fabricated a hate crime on himself,
2:00.2	will juries hold that against hate crime victims in the future and doubt their victimization?
2:08.0	The fact that he was a star on the hit series Empire has drawn a lot of attention to this trial
2:14.0	going down right now. Take a listen to our cut. A, this is Dean Reynolds at CBS.
2:22.8	Smollett's plea of not guilty came almost a year after he was originally booked for fabricating
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