Illinois Supreme Court has some bad news for Jussie Smollett – TheBlaze

The Illinois Supreme Court delivered some immoral info to frail “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett on Friday: The court docket refused to throw out a felony indictment charging him with falsely claiming to have been the victim of a hate crime final year.

The Illinois excessive court docket printed a pair of terse notices stating that Smollett’s motions to push aside the case and disqualify its particular prosecutor have been denied and supplied no explanation. In February, Smollett pleaded no longer responsible to six counts that were filed in a substantial jury indictment.

Smollett faces loads of counts, including disorderly conduct for lying to police in Jan. 2019 when he claimed two males wearing MAGA hats attacked him near his condo in Chicago and yelled racial and homophobic slurs at him.

Smollett’s attorney fires abet

The frail “Empire” actor’s attorney fired abet at the Illinois Supreme Court after it denied his toddle.

“Motions for supervisory orders are unparalleled therapies and no longer usually granted,” licensed educated William Quinlan acknowledged. “We believed the unfamiliar circumstances of this case warranted submitting the toddle. We are in a position to now discover the long-established appellate procedure.”

As TheBlaze reported in February, the costs in opposition to Smollett came after Dan Webb, a Chicago particular prosecutor, formally charged him when “a Cook dinner County substantial jury returned a six-count indictment charging Jussie Smollett with making four separate fraudulent reports to Chicago Police Division officers connected to his fraudulent claims that he became once the victim of a hate crime, brilliant that he became once no longer the victim of a crime.”

Webb added, “the substantial jury’s investigation revealed that Jussie Smollett planned and participated in a staged hate crime assault, and thereafter made a colossal choice of fraudulent statements to Chicago Police Division officers on a number of events, reporting a cross hate crime that he, in point of fact, knew had no longer occurred.”

Long-established charges mysteriously dropped

Smollett became once first charged with 16 felonies by a substantial jury in March 2019 in reference to his allegedly fraudulent allegations, but Cook dinner County Articulate Felony educated Kim Foxx mysteriously the complete charges in opposition to him simply a number of weeks later. Foxx later recused herself from the case.

Now the customary investigation into Smollett is being examined by the particular prosecutor assigned to the case.

In his press delivery, Webb eminent that they’ve an investigation into the Cook dinner County Articulate’s Felony educated’s Office is ongoing, but that the Office of the Particular Prosecutor “has received ample upright proof to establish that it disagrees with how the CCSAO resolved the Smollett case.”