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Jussie Smollett Trial Live Updates: Actor Found Guilty in Fake Hate Crime Case.
A jury in Chicago found the actor Jussie Smollett guilty on Thursday of falsely reporting to the police that he had been the victim of a racist and homophobic assault in 2019, an attack that investigators presented as a hoax directed by the actor himself.
After deliberating for more than nine hours, the 12-person jury indicated that it had chosen to believe the accounts of two brothers who testified that Mr. Smollett had asked them to mildly injure him as part of a publicity stunt.
A jury in Chicago found the actor Jussie Smollett guilty on Thursday of falsely reporting to the police that he had been the victim of a racist and homophobic assault in 2019, an attack that investigators presented as a hoax directed by the actor himself.
After deliberating for more than nine hours, the 12-person jury indicated that it had chosen to believe the accounts of two brothers who testified that Mr. Smollett had asked them to mildly injure him as part of a publicity stunt.
Key Moments From the Jussie Smollett Trial (Published 2021)
Mr. Smollett was convicted of filing a false police report claiming he had been the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in 2019. The prosecution argued he had staged the attack himself.
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