Former 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett's seemingly endless criminal case is expected to come to a close on Thursday, after more than three years, when he will ask a judge to overturn his conviction before facing sentencing.
Former"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett's seemingly endless criminal case is expected to come to a close on Thursday, after more than three years, when he will ask a judge to overturn his conviction before facing sentencing.
, while acquitting him of the sixth count. Prosecutors had charged Smollett with staging a fake racist and homophobic attack against himself in January 2019, and then lying to police about it, in a bid for publicity. CBS 2 Legal Analyst Irv Miller said Thursday's hearing could take the better part of the afternoon on Thursday, between the bid to have his conviction thrown out and, barring an unlikely decision in Smollett's favor, a sentencing hearing with arguments and witnesses from prosecutors and defense attorneys.
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