Former 'Empire' star Jussie Smollett has filed an appeal of his 2021 conviction for faking a hate-crime attack in Chicago in early 2019
“The renewed prosecution of Mr. Smollett violated his due process rights,” attorney Heather Widell wrote in the court document filed Thursday , “because Mr. Smollett fully performed his part of a non-prosecution agreement with the state by performing community service and forfeiting his $10,000 bail bond; and the state benefited from taking and keeping Mr. Smollett’s bail bond without performing its end of the bargain.
”The filing also cites double-jeopardy protection tied to the actor being “punished for the same offenses by his performance of community service and forfeiture of his bond.”, Smollett was convicted of five felony charges stemming from what the actor said was a hate-motivated attack as he was leaving a Chicago restaurant in the early-morning hours on December 9, 2021.
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