WFB:
An Illinois judge assigned a special prosecutor to investigate the alleged hate crime hoax carried out by Empire star Jussie Smollett and the handling of the case by the state’s attorney’s office.
Cook County state’s attorney Kim Foxx came under scrutiny for the deal reached with Smollett, who did not admit to guilt and forfeited his bail in return for charges being dropped. Despite having claimed to have recused herself and handing it to an “acting state’s attorney,” Foxx later claimed she never formerly recused herself and the announced recusal was only “in a colloquial sense.”
But Judge Michael Toomin of the Cook County circuit ruled Friday there is no provision in Illinois law for an “acting state’s attorney,” and that Foxx was supposed to allow a judge to appoint a special prosecutor. The case was therefore prosecuted by “a fictitious office having no legal existence.”
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So the little limp shitbird isn’t off the hook just yet!
jessie smollett … just another turd in the punch bowl of life
So the special prosecutor can investigate any office that dealt with the case.
Any bets all the blame will fall on the Chicago Police Department?
Trying to ‘cherry pick’ a corruptive action in a corruptive liberal state must be a challenge to end all challenges.
There is no colloquial sense of the word “recuse”.
Contrary to liberal opinion, you cannot make up your own definitions for legal terms in a legal context.
I hope someone is keeping track of what all this is costing the city of Chicagongo, so they can present little jossie with the bill if, and when it ever reaches some kind of conclusion.
He shouldn’t _be_ charged at all. He’s the *victim*!
At sentencing, the judge yells, “Justin Smollett, prepare your anus!”