Jussie Smollett walked out of custody Wednesday evening after two appeals court judges agreed his 150-day jail sentence should be put on hold while his appeal is pending. Now what?
that was to send Jussie Smollett to jail for the first few months of his probation sentence, Cook County Judge James Linn last week told the convicted actor that “sometimes the hammer of justice has to fall.”
Meanwhile, the restitution money is not due for 30 months, according to his defense team, and the appeals process may well have run its course before then. In general, appeals can take months if not years to fully resolve, especially if efforts are made to take them beyond the appellate level to the state Supreme Court.
Nenye Uche, center, gesturing, a defense attorney for Jussie Smollett, speaks to the media outside Cook County Jail in Chicago on March 16, 2022, after his client was released pending an appeal. Wednesday night outside the jail, Smollett’s attorneys focused largely on an argument that Smollett’s second prosecution violated his rights against double jeopardy.
The abrupt dismissal in such a high-profile case led to great confusion and proved to be fertile ground for conspiracy theories. At the request of a former appellate judge, a special prosecutor was appointed to determine if Smollett should be charged again and investigate whether there was any wrongdoing in Cook County prosecutors’ handling of the case.
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