Two years ago actor Jussie Smollett was convicted on felony disorderly conduct charges after a special prosecutor retried him for staging a hate-crime hoax, after the charges were initially dropped [click here if you missed that].
Now the conviction has been overturned...
From The Daily Mail
Jussie Smollett has had his conviction for lying to the police with a bizarre anti-Trump hoax overturned in a sensational ruling from the Illinois Supreme Court.
The court found that the former 'Empire' actor had his rights violated by a special prosecutor's decision to retry him after initial charges against him were dropped.
Smollett was convicted in December 2021 for lying to police about two men attacking him, yelling homophobic slurs and placing a noose around his neck while wearing MAGA hats.
He was sentenced to 150 days in jail and 30 months probation after it was proven that he made the episode up, and he was also slapped with a hefty fine of $130,160.
Smollett appealed the ruling and has not yet served a day of that sentence behind bars, and his conviction was previously affirmed by a lower court before the Supreme Court agreed to hear his appeal.
The actor's hoax and subsequent arrest sparked a media firestorm years ago, as it was bizarrely found that he had actually paid two Nigerian brothers - Abel and Ola Osundairo - to stage the incident.
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