Actor Jussie Smollett leaves court after charges versus him were come by state district attorneys in Chicago, Illinois, March 26, 2019.
Kamil Krzaczynski|Reuters
Embattled star Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in prison and 30 months probation on Thursday for incorrectly reporting to authorities that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in 2019.
“You’re just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime,” Judge James Linn informed Smollett while revealing the sentence.
Smollett reacted to the sentence by consistently shouting “I am not suicidal!” in court.
The previous “Empire” star, 39, was condemned by a Chicago jury in December on 5 counts of felony disorderly conduct. He was discovered not guilty on the 6th charge of worsened battery.
The charges came from a January 2019 report in which Smollett, who is Black and gay, declared that he had actually been extremely attacked in Chicago’s Streeterville community.
The star stated 2 guys punched and kicked him, utilized racist and homophobic slurs, tossed a chemical in his face and covered a noose around his neck.
The authorities examination resulted in the arrests of Olabingo Osundairo and his sibling Abimbola, who dealt with the set of “Empire.”
They were ultimately launched and Smollett was jailed onFeb 21, 2019, after authorities implicated him of hiring the bros to stage the attack.
Police stated at the time that Smollett managed the counterfeit event to advance his profession, a claim the star rejects.
Prior to his sentencing, Smollett’s legal group had actually promoted either a brand-new trial or an innocent decision, declaring that his civil liberties were breached when the court avoided his legal representatives from actively taking part in the jury choice procedure.
In court files, the group composed that the court “made numerous trial errors leading up to the trial and during the pendency of the trial.”
His legal representatives argued that they were not permitted to ask concerns of the prospective jurors, avoiding them from finding any possible predispositions or “questionable impartiality” towards Smollett offered the case being a prominent one.
