Pinche Abogado said:

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"And wearing MAGA hats!??"

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What I always thought was funny is they had video of the brothers buying the red caps but they couldn't locate any actual MAGA hats, you know, since they were in Chicago, which is like 95% democrat.

Yet Jussie wanted us to believe there were two racist MAGA hat wearing homophobes, carrying around bleach and a noose when they just happened to recognize Smollett at 2am in -16 degree weather. Sounds legit.

If Jussie Smollett is acquitted, it will send the message that attacking a black, gay man while shouting MAGA slurs is acceptable in our society.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 9, 2021

Defense lawyer tried really hard to personally connect with the jury and to play to their political leanings. Talking about "Obama's city" and how no black man living in Chicago would be dumb enough to think anyone would believe him if he said he was attacked by MAGA people.

We are waiting for Jussie Smollett to return to the courthouse. So far no sign of him or his attorneys.

— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) December 9, 2021

Jussie walking into courthouse

Guilty on five

Count 6 not guilty

Justice On Juicy!

sicandtiredTXN said:

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Guilty on five

Count 6 not guilty

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Do you know which count that was?

What is 6?

johnnyblaze36 said:

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sicandtiredTXN said:

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Guilty on five

Count 6 not guilty

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Do you know which count that was?

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The lying about aggrevated assault.

johnnyblaze36 said:

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sicandtiredTXN said:

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Guilty on five

Count 6 not guilty

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Do you know which count that was?

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All the same charge from six different officers

sicandtiredTXN said:

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johnnyblaze36 said:

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sicandtiredTXN said:

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Guilty on five

Count 6 not guilty

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Do you know which count that was?

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All the same charge from six different officers

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The last charge was was from February and not from his statements in January right after and the next morning. So could be more attenuated in time or the state didn't bring enough evidence as to that interaction?

WAG..

He gave five accounts of the Hoax to five different interviews by officers immediately after the reported Hoax

Then a month later he was interviewed again by a detective and that was the account that was acquitted.

johnnyblaze36 said:

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sicandtiredTXN said:

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Guilty on five

Count 6 not guilty

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Do you know which count that was?

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https://apple.news/ATmWqPgSgSbStUmHoCSyZRw

Now the question is are Perjury charges forthcoming?

Will Don Lemon talk about this tonight?

sicandtiredTXN said:

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He gave five accounts of the Hoax to five different interviews by officers immediately after the reported Hoax

Then a month later he was interviewed again by a detective and that was the account that was acquitted.

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I was literally trying to clarify

here's the breakdown

Count 1 accuses him of telling responding Chicago Police Officer Muhammed Baig at around 2:45 a.m., some 45 minutes after the purported attack, that he was the victim of a hate crime. He said two attackers put a rope around his neck.

Count 2 refers to Smollett telling the same officer he was a victim of a battery, describing attackers beating and pouring bleach on him.

Counts 3 and 4 are when Smollett made the same claims but to a different officer, Kimberly Murray, later that morning, at just before 6 a.m.

Count 5 accuses Smollett of again telling Murray at around 7:15 p.m. that he was the victim of a battery.

Count 6 refers to Smollett reporting on Feb. 14, 2019, to detective Robert Graves that he'd been a victim of an aggravated battery.

sicandtiredTXN said:

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He gave five accounts of the Hoax to five different interviews by officers immediately after the reported Hoax

Then a month later he was interviewed again by a detective and that was the account that was acquitted.

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It may just be that the prosecution didn't submit enough evidence with the 6th charge.

Each charge is a Class IV felony. 1-3 years and $25,000 on each charge. Judge has wide discretion as to probation vs jail time.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/09/jussie-smollett-convicted-of-staging-hate-crime/

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Jussie Smollett guilty of staging race-baiting hate attack to boost career
By Gabrielle Fonrouge December 9, 2021 6:18pm

Jussie Smollett was convicted Thursday of staging a hate crime nearly three years after he claimed two Trump-loving bigots beat him up, tied a noose around his neck and doused him in bleach in a misbegotten bid to raise his public profile.

It took nearly an hour for the actor to return to Chicago courthouse to hear the jury's guilty verdict.

For Smollett, the verdict is the final chapter in the made-for-tv saga that jurors found Smollett not just starred in, but directed from start to finish when he asked two men to "fake beat him up," gave them a script of homophobic and racist slurs to deliver and selected a stage for the phony beatdown that he thought was in direct view of surveillance cameras.

Jurors heard six days of testimony from 13 witnesses and deliberated for less than 10 hours. In the absence of smoking gun evidence, the trial in Chicago criminal court came down to whose story was more believable: Smollett's, or Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo's.

The defense vehemently maintained Smollett was the victim of a real hate crime and called the brothers "sophisticated liars and criminals," who later offered to recant their story and "tell the truth" in exchange for $2 million.

"He's dumb enough to go into Obama's city and pretend there's Trump supporters running around with MAGA hats? Give me a break," defense attorney Nenye Uche told jurors in his closing arguments.

"The brothers were like wolves disguised as sheep in the hen house."

Prosecutors, however, said Smollett exploited tense race relations for his own gain and paid the Osundairos $3,500 to stage the attack so he could get attention.

"It's clearly a violation of the law to go to the police and report to police a fake crime and tell police it's a real crime," special prosecutor Dan Webb told the jury.

"To outright denigrate something as serious, as heinous, as a real hate crime, to denigrate it and then make sure it involved words and symbols that have such horrible historical significance in our country was just plain wrong to do it and he did."

The two brothers, who'd known the former "Empire" actor for about a year and a half prior to the hoax, both delivered hours-long testimonies as the prosecution's star witnesses. Abimbola, 28, told jurors that he and Smollett met at a club in the fall of 2017 and soon became so close, he considered the actor to be a "brother."

So when Smollett texted him on January 25, 2019 asking him for some "help on the low," he agreed to meet up with the actor who brought up a piece of hate mail he received that showed a stick figure hanging and the words "You will die black f-g."

"He talked about how the studio was not taking the mail seriously, the hate mail he'd received earlier," Abimbola testified.

"I was confused, I looked puzzled and then he explained that he wanted me to fake beat him up."

Abimbola, who is now an amateur boxer, said Smollett told him specific lines he wanted the brothers to deliver "'Empire', f-t, n-r, MAGA" and then gave blow-by-blow instructions.

"He wanted me to punch him but he wanted me to pull the punch so I didn't hurt him and then he wanted me to tussle him and throw him to the ground and give him a bruise," Abimbola testified.....

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aggrieved battery:

CNNs actual title:

"Jussie Smollet Guilty on Some charges"

Sounds like Justice for Juicy is happening

Captain Positivity said:

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Each charge is a Class IV felony. 1-3 years and $25,000 on each charge. Judge has wide discretion as to probation vs jail time.

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Sadly I think they'll go very easy on him.

Can they also charge him with perjury on the stand?

C@LAg said:

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If Jussie Smollett is acquitted, it will send the message that attacking a black, gay man while shouting MAGA slurs is acceptable in our society.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 9, 2021

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They will just not admit this bull***** Jussie could tell them to their faces that Yep I did lie about it, it's all fake and they would still lie. They simply don't care.

sicandtiredTXN said:

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Now the question is are Perjury charges forthcoming?

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Very unlikely. The judge can take the defendants's honesty on the stand and remorse into consideration in the sentencing. It would be highly unusual for separate charges to be filed. The fact that he continues to lie only hurts his case for probation over prison time.

Out of curiosity, does anybody know the racial make up of the jury? Not that it should matter because it shouldn't but given the way things are today…

annie88 said:

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Out of curiosity, does anybody know the racial make up of the jury? Not that it should matter because it shouldn't but given the way things are today…

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6 men, 6 women, only one black person.

Captain Positivity said:

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annie88 said:

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Out of curiosity, does anybody know the racial make up of the jury? Not that it should matter because it shouldn't but given the way things are today…

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6 men, 6 women, only one black person.

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how many are gay?

Pretty sure none of them were asked.

One potential juror was excused after saying she had a gay daughter and had done a lot of research on the case because she was fearful for her daughter's safety.

Captain Positivity said:

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annie88 said:

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Out of curiosity, does anybody know the racial make up of the jury? Not that it should matter because it shouldn't but given the way things are today…

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6 men, 6 women, only one black person.

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OK here we go with the racist jury comments.