Actress Jussie Smollett has received the sentence after being found guilty of staging a “hate attack”.
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Actress Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to 30 months probation, and must spend 150 days in jail after staging an attack on herself. It writes Reuters.
He claimed to have been the victim of an attack with homophobic and racist undertones in Chicago in 2019 and lied to the police. IN last year he was found guilty.
Judge James Linn rejected requests to postpone the verdict and immediately ordered the actor, known from the series “Empire”, to jail.
Smollett must also pay $ 120,106 in compensation.
– I’m innocent. I could say I was guilty a long time ago, he shouted when officers from the Sheriff’s office led him out, writes AP.
During the hearing itself, he said nothing. His defender asked that the actor be sentenced to community service because he “has lost almost everything” in his career and in personal finances.
During the trial in December last year he denied having staged the violence he was exposed to.
Two brothers stood up and explained that they were paid 30,000 kroner by Smollett for the “job”.
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