Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in prison for fake hate crime

[aotearoagal]

'Empire' actor #JussieSmollett was sentenced to 5 months in jail for staging a racist and homophobic attack.https://t.co/6pY8JFT9tQ
- USA TODAY (@USATODAY) March 11, 2022
At his sentencing today, Jussie Smollett was sentenced to serve 150 days in jail, in conjunction with a 30-month felony probation. The judge also ordered Smollett to pay $120,000

Comments

[genbu_no_miko24]

150 days is almost 5 months!!

How much lesser would the sentencing had been had he pleaded guilty? I think people in the last post mentioned that he shouldn’t have dragged this out?

He played the cops so I can how they’re egos got hot but idk 5months seems extreme. At best it should’ve been pay a hefty fine and community service.

[odetothefool]

i think it wasn't just the lying to police but that you can also get fined and get jail time for perjury and the judge pointed out that he lied while sworn in on the stand for hours during cross-examination

*i just googled it and google says perjury can go up to 5 years of jail time but I'm not a lawyer so idk 5 years seems high and I'm sure it depends on the state

[genbu_no_miko24]

Oh if he lied on the stand then yeah he screwed himself there.

[fauxkaren]

Oh damn. I didn’t know he took the stand in his own defense. That was incredibly stupid of him. And probably shows how delusional he is to think he could lie so amazing on the stand that everyone would believe him.

[katheli]

honestly I wonder if he truly believes this himself now? he seems to have issues, I don't think a clear mind would have come up with that whole incident in the first place.

[boomstick]

I've been watching a lot of 20/20 lately and every episode has some insanity in it. Either the police horribly botching a crime scene or someone who is 100% guilty acting innocent. In both situations, the guilty parties kind of shrug and say "idk" like they truly believe they did nothing wrong and everyone else is insane.

[orange_jelly23]

Absolutely absurd to jail him for this, no wonder American prisons are full
For some reason I think he is telling the truth??? Maybe I am a clown

[gimmemoarjosh]

I'm with you. I have no clue what to believe anymore.

[bestrussianrec]

I too am at a loss. A loss that resembles a shamble of shattered glass. The truth is out there.gif

[artlover2788]

this poetry!

[ohyesbinch]

How the hell are so many of you so easily gaslit by men. How many of yo-you know what. I don't want to know. I'm not asking that. Considering you can be given 6 months+ for lying, 4 months isnt that bad. Hope he personally apologizes as he forks over the cash to everyone who's time he wasted investigating his bullshit story + apologizes to actual hate crime victims who now have to live under the tortuous cloud of suspicion he personally created for reporting what happened to them. He and his defenders can rot.

[xellabelle]

Yeah I don’t understand how people can’t see the severity of faking a crime and lying to police.

[dreamdate]

You really think it’s unfathomable for people here to feel hesitant that he did this when innocent Black men are incarcerated every day in this country?

[xellabelle]

People need to employ critical thinking when it comes to this case that is an anomaly. I can 100% understand people feeling like this if you just read the headline but if you look at the facts, and watch the interview he did, come on.

[manu19]

he seems to be generally paranoid and probably believes his own lie at some point. This happens to me sometimes as well. I tell a friend on Monday that I can't on Friday because of a doctors appointment or whatever and by Thursday I almost believe I really have to go to the doctor the next day :D

[tigirah]

Try honesty. You don't owe an explanation.

[manu19]

Probably a cultural thing. When someone asks the way and you don't know, you just make up something on the spot as well because you just don't want to say "no" while other people would simply say "I don't know" I would say "ah yes it is to the left and then straight ahead"

[electric_lemur]

What culture gives wrong directions? That’s just lying.