Jussie Smollett Sentenced

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Three months after a Chicago jury convicted Empire actor Jussie Smollett of faking a hate crime, he has returned to court to hear his sentence from the judge and it was a dramatic session. Court TV’s Chanley Painter was in the room when it happened and shares with host Vinnie Politan her observations. Was his sentence too harsh? Or did the judge do the right thing? Get the latest updates on CourtTV and CourtTV.com and tune in to see Vinnie Politan and the entire Court TV team review each day’s testimony on Closing Arguments weeknights from 8pm to 11pm. For more of Court TV’s continuing coverage of the Jussie Smollett sentencing, click here.

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that opinions all are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law sensitive topics are discussed. Discretion is advised.
0:13.4	On this week's court TV podcast,
0:19.1	three months after a Chicago jury found actor and activist
0:22.8	Jussie Smollett guilty of a felony
0:25.0	for faking a hate crime,
0:26.9	he is back in court to hear what his sentence is.
0:31.2	And like everything else about this story, it was controversial.
0:35.0	Court TV's Chanley Painter was in the courtroom when it happened and will give us a full report.
0:40.0	This is the Court TV podcast with Vinny Polytan.
0:49.0	I'm Vinny Polytan.
0:50.0	Thank you so much for downloading the Court TV podcast and listening this episode
0:56.0	Jesse Smollet or Jesse Smollett. I don't know how to say it. I say both ways. I don't know which way is
1:01.3	right, which way is wrong, which really is an
1:03.8	important point in all of this because before all of this I had no idea who he was.
1:11.6	I didn't know because I didn't watch Empire for whatever reason I
1:14.7	never really caught on to the show. There's a lot of shows I don't watch so I
1:17.5	never really knew him. Obviously he's a big star and for the audience of that show he's a big big He wasn't necessarily a big deal, but now he is because we all know him now.
1:37.3	But is he famous?
1:38.3	Is he infamous?
1:39.3	It's just the most bizarre case I think I've ever covered at Court TV.
1:44.8	Just strange, like why did this even happen?
1:49.2	Anyhow, Jesse Smollett has been sentenced and has been, you know, hopefully the, I don't think the case is over.
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