In a shift from the 2021 trial, almost none of the principals were wearing a mask in courtroom today as plexiglass protected special prosecutor Daniel Webb, deputy special prosecutor Sam Mendenhall, prosecutor Sean Wieber and team, as well as the defense, as they addressed Linn before sentencing. “You committed hour upon hour of pure perjury,” he went on to say of the performer’s stint on the stand in his own defense late last year. ![]() ![]() “You’re just a charlatan, pretending to be the victim of a hate crime,” Linn concluded of “toxic” Smollett. “You wanted to make yourself more famous …throwing a national pity party for yourself.” “You really craved the attention,” Linn speculated on Smollett’s motivations as he centered on the assumed “damage” to true hate crime victims and reporting that the performer has caused. Speaking directly to Smollett, the borderline angry judge told him that Smollett turned his “life upside down by your misconduct and shenanigans” by “hoaxing racial and homophobic hate crimes.” Saying he “didn’t know where to begin,” Linn castigated “selfish, arrogant and narcissistic” Smollett for his “pre-meditated” actions in the context of the commitment to social justice that was fundamental to the performer’s upbringing, life and career. Promising no “cookie cutter justice,” Linn said from the bench in announcing sentencing that he didn’t believe he could make the findings to hand down consecutive sentences on the five Class 4 felonies. Although an argued motion to toss out the December 9 verdict and get a new trial failed earlier in today’s hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago, defense attorney Tina Glandian and Smollett’s other lawyers made it clear before and after sentencing they plan to appeal. If anything happens to me when I go in there, you must all know that.” /xe2wYpQJ4Oįacing up to three years in prison on each charge and tens of thousands of dollars in fines on the felonies for the well-publicized case, Smollett was always looking unlikely to get the maximum by Cook County Judge James Linn because of his lack of a previous criminal record. ![]() Jussie Smollett after the sentencing: “I am not suicidal. Trump Gets Mixed Reaction From Crowd As He Shows Up At Iowa-Iowa State Football Game
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