'The facts will take me where they take me. I'm going to start fresh and see where it goes,' former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb told reporters Friday.
in January. But if the special prosecutor, former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb, determines that the charges shouldn't have been dropped, he could recommend that they be reinstated or that new charges be brought.
The Cook County state's attorney's office charged Smollett in February with 16 counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly staging the attack and lying about it to investigators. However, itWebb, who served as U.S. attorney in Chicago during the 1980s before going on to become arguably the city's most high-profile defense attorney of the last few decades, has been tapped to serve as a special prosecutor on five previous occassions.
"I might say that the responses were less than enthusiastic, as you might expect," Toomin told the courtroom.
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