Jussie Smollett alleges he was victim of hate crime, police arrest him for faking it

[Xzi]

Jussie Smollett has been indicted on 16 felony counts by a grand jury:

https://abc7chicago.com/jussie-smollett-indicted-on-16-felony-counts-by-grand-jury/5177586/

Now, I don't have an issue with this, the guy is a dipshit who threw away $2mil per season because he thought he wasn't getting paid enough. What I do take issue with, is that each of these felonies carries with it a sentence of up to four years in jail. That's up to 64 years in jail, or potentially life even for a young guy. For faking an attack on himself. Seems excessive IMO.

Meanwhile, Paul Manafort gets sentenced to less than 4 years for laundering and defrauding Americans of tens of millions. Gotta take a quote from AOC on this one, "justice isn't blind, it's bought."

 

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Jussie Smollett has been indicted on 16 felony counts by a grand jury:

https://abc7chicago.com/jussie-smollett-indicted-on-16-felony-counts-by-grand-jury/5177586/

Now, I don't have an issue with this, the guy is a dipshit who threw away $2mil per season because he thought he wasn't getting paid enough. What I do take issue with, is that each of these felonies carries with it a sentence of up to four years in jail. That's up to 64 years in jail, or potentially life even for a young guy. For faking an attack on himself. Seems excessive IMO.

Meanwhile, Paul Manafort gets sentenced to less than 4 years for laundering and defrauding Americans of tens of millions. Gotta take a quote from AOC on this one, "justice isn't blind, it's bought."

Up to 4 years, no way he serves that much

A bit ridiculous to assume he would get the maximum sentence

 

[Xzi]

Up to 4 years, no way he serves that much

A bit ridiculous to assume he would get the maximum sentence

True, but those are the sentencing guidelines. Consider then if he's found guilty of all sixteen counts, the median sentence would still be 32 years jail time.

 

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True, but those are the sentencing guidelines. Consider then if he's found guilty of all sixteen counts, the median sentence would still be 32 years jail time.

Again, I don't think he is going to serve that much time.

Prosecutors usually throw everything at someone to make sure something sticks, but no way is a judge going to actually sentence him to 32 years.

It's the strange tango of our court systems.

 

[Xzi]

Again, I don't think he is going to serve that much time.

Prosecutors usually throw everything at someone to make sure something sticks, but no way is a judge going to actually sentence him to 32 years.

It's the strange tango of our court systems.

Basically all 16 counts are for filing a false police report and/or giving false statements to the police. I think he's royally fucked because everybody on the right and the left hates him at this point, but we should at least try to maintain some semblance of impartiality.

 

[x65943]

Basically all 16 counts are for filing a false police report and/or giving false statements to the police. I think he's royally fucked because everybody on the right and the left hates him at this point, but we should at least try to maintain some semblance of impartiality.

Judges are meant to look at the facts and judge impartially.

My guess is he will serve time, but probably less than 10 years.

Further, we aren't judges so we can be impartial as much as we want. I think what he did was pretty reckless and he deserves what's coming for him.

 

[FAST6191]

Read the full indictment. Most of it seems to be about the main incident. I thought at first it might be all the various officers that took statements but two were repeated throughout. Might have been repeated sessions (or questionings/interviews/interrogations) but there was no timeframe there, other than describing the false report. Nothing about the letter with the powder, though that is probably a federal matter so maybe expect more to come.

"I think he's royally fucked because everybody on the right and the left hates him at this point"
A curious way of looking at the world.

 

[Lacius]

Jussie Smollett's fake hate crime should itself be a hate crime.

 

[Deleted User]

Give him maximum sentence to shut up fake victims and put Twitter out of business.

 

[Viri]

I think he's royally fucked because everybody on the right

The funny thing is, before all of this, I doubt a whole lot of people on the right even knew who the fuck he was, lol.

 

[Xzi]

Give him maximum sentence to shut up fake victims and put Twitter out of business.

I wish it was only Twitter. Sometimes it seems like the entire country has a victim complex, up to and including the president.

 

[Viri]

Twitter out of business

Social media was a mistake.

 

[Chary]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news...llett-charges-dropped-20190326-story,amp.html

Did this sack of trash actually manage to walk away scot free from this?

What a waste of everyone’s time.

 

[Deleted User]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news...llett-charges-dropped-20190326-story,amp.html

Did this sack of trash actually manage to walk away scot free from this?

What a waste of everyone’s time.

Un
fucking
believable.

 

[x65943]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news...llett-charges-dropped-20190326-story,amp.html

Did this sack of trash actually manage to walk away scot free from this?

What a waste of everyone’s time.

So he paid $100k and got off scot-free

Sounds like cut and dry bribery

The corruption in Chicago is palpable

 

[Deleted User]

So he paid $100k and got off scot-free

Sounds like cut and dry bribery

The corruption in Chicago is palpable

Not 100k.

10k.

 

[Subtle Demise]

Silly to think that a celebrity, even a C-list TV actor would actually be convicted of anything.

 

[Deleted User]

So now there's a high profile precedent for lying to police and getting away with it.

 

[Viri]

Didn't this guy mail fake Anthrax to his studio, have his studio shut down, and have people wearing hazmat suits checking everything for Anthrax? The cops also found the magazine he cut the letters out of, because he was dumb enough to keep the cut up magazines in his apartment, instead of throwing them out.

His hate crime story is so damn funny. It's a shame we'll never get to see the surveillance of his "hate crime attack".

 

[Xzi]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news...llett-charges-dropped-20190326-story,amp.html

Did this sack of trash actually manage to walk away scot free from this?

What a waste of everyone’s time.

I guess justice really is blind...as long as you're rich and well-connected. It's also possible the police fucked up somewhere along the way and he got off on a technicality. Either way, he was 100% guilty of at least one of those charges.