Jussie Smollett Should Lose His Appeal
The Emily Show
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🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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On December 9, 2021 actor Jussie Smollett was convicted of hoaxing a hate crime against himself, and in the course of that hoax made multiple false reports to the police. On March 11, 2022, Smollett was sentenced after the Judge stated to Smollett “you’re just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime, and that’s shameful.” The Judge further stated that Smollett has “done real damage to victims of hate crimes” and that he “lied and kept lying”. The Judge sentenced Smollett to 150 days in jail, 30 months of Felony probation, a fine of $25,000, and restitution of a little over $130,000 to the city of Chicago reduced for the $10,000 in forfeited bail bond that Smollett previously paid. On March 16, 2022, the Appellate Court granted Smollett’s request to stay (pause) his sentence pending appeal and he was released from custody. This case feels like it’s been a whirlwind since it started and we need to take a look at everything that has happened to have context for the arguments on appeal and what will happen next.
Resources
- Double jeopardy Jussie Smollett's 'strongest argument' for appeal, ex-prosecutor says | Washington Examiner
- Jussie Smollett Released https://youtu.be/0dEVsB1pHfY
- Jussie Smollett Sentenced https://youtu.be/VFpLbrWWD5o
- Jussie Smollett Convicted https://youtu.be/osslx8pntpE
- Jussie Smollett Conviction Breakdown https://youtu.be/WBsmtGTPaQ8
- Emily Reads the Constitution https://youtu.be/1vkNW8ZVp4o
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| 0:00.0 | welcome back to this week's episode of the Emily show. We have to talk about everything that's |
| 0:06.4 | going on with Jesse Smolet. I will interchange Smolet and Smolet. I just I cannot help it. |
| 0:14.0 | Just it happens as I talk about this case. But I'm really fascinated about what's going to happen |
| 0:20.8 | in the appellate court. I will give a quick rundown of what happened. Then we're going to do a |
| 0:25.4 | timeline and then we're going to talk about the law here and at the end we're going to talk about |
| 0:29.7 | why this case is similar but distinguishable from what happened on appeal with Bill Cosby. I think |
| 0:37.1 | and you might not see this a lot around the internet. I think there's a very real possibility that |
| 0:41.6 | Jesse Smolet goes back into jail to serve out his five months and these convictions stand. |
| 0:49.0 | And my mind has been changed on this based on the hundreds of pages I have read in this case. |
| 0:55.8 | I went back to when this decision was decided before at the trial court level before it went up |
| 1:02.2 | on appeal to look at what happened back then and it gave me a lot of new information that I have |
| 1:08.8 | not seen shared anywhere. So if you're ready for a deep dive behind the headlines with what's going |
| 1:15.0 | on with Jesse Smolet and why I think there's a very real possibility he loses on appeal then stay |
| 1:21.6 | tuned because we are going to talk about it. You're going to learn more about Jeppel Jeopardy than |
| 1:26.6 | you ever wanted to know and no I'm not talking about the TV show. So let's just get into it. |
| 1:31.4 | Let's just get into it. Hey there. Welcome to the Emily show. I'm your host, Emily Debaker, |
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| 1:47.6 | I'm a former prosecutor and I'm a big fan of the Chrissy words. So let's break it down. |
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