PM: Lawyers representing Jussie Smollett have filed a motion asking a Chicago judge Friday to throw out the convicted hate hoaxer’s guilty verdict or grant the disgraced actor a new trial. Smollett’s legal counsel are arguing that his constitutional rights were violated by the court during the jury selection process.
Smollett’s legal counsel claim that the court made numerous errors during the high-profile trial in 2021, calling it “a lightning rod for the political divisions plaguing the country,” according to a filing obtained by the New York Post.
In the legal motion, Smollett’s attorneys argued that his right to a public trial was violated because the amount of spectators and members of the press observing were limited due to COVID-19 restrictions in place amid the pandemic.
The motion alleges the court endorsed “procedures and tactics” that allowed prosecutors to exclude black and gay potential panelists from the jury box. more
I’m no lawyer, but doesn’t jury selection take place BEFORE the trial? If there was a problem with jury selection, THAT would have been the time to address it.
And I sure hope he is paying for his defense out of his own pocket, not getting funded by GLADD or some other advocate group.
They will try, try, try again as long as there is money in Smolliet’s bank account.
Poor victim of White Colored Homophobic MAGA Country Bias is getting poorer. This must be consuming a lot of the money he was saving to contribute to Kalamity Harris’ next Presidential Campaign.
Just brand him as a lying homosexual coward. Oh wait, that already happened. Nevermind.
Thats racists! I was framed.
The deviant African did the crime he should do the time!
All because this dumb SOB hated President Trump.
Definition of irony: “a lightning rod for the political divisions plaguing the country,”
a lightning bolt up his ass for calling innocent white America the racists
GTH jackass!
If he wants to be a victim so badly that he has to manufacture being one, let’s accommodate him by beating the holy living snot out of him so he can really be
a victim.
Lets repatriate him back to his native Africa so he can live in peace, happiness, tranquility and poverty for the rest of his unnatural life
Here’s a song for Juicy….
https://youtu.be/PEkkhqF9TJg
He should be happy to go to jail, all the duck sucking he can stand or bend.
He’s going to have to settle for tossing a salad instead of tossing a verdict.
Ni****, please!
Wow. Nature has a way of warning people not to stay away from certain reptiles by giving them neon colors or dreadful smells. If Smollett was one of those toxic creatures he’d be, like, neon green and purple with yellow and black spots. Mental illness warning! Warning! Warning!