Jussie Smollett was released from jail while his attorneys appeal his sentence on multiple disorderly conduct convictions, a court ruled.
His attorneys said the actor broke down when they gave him the news he'd be freed.
Smollett was sentenced to 30 months' probation for lying to police about staging a hate crime attack against himself in Chicago, with the first 150 days of the sentence in Cook County Jail. He was released after less than a week. "The appellate court will take its time," said ABC7 legal analyst Gil Soffer."It will consider the briefs that are submitted to it and will make a judgement about two things: one, should it reverse the conviction? And two, even if the conviction stands, was the sentence appropriate?"
"And if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself," Smollett added."And you must all know that."
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