Illinois Supreme Court to hear Jussie Smollett appeal

Actor Jussie Smollett listens as his sentence is read at a hearing on March 10, 2022, at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago. The Illinois Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from Jussie Smollett, the former “Empire” actor whose convictions for staging a hate crime caused fevered international media attention.

After the decision, Smollett asked the state’s high court to hear the case, a decision up to the discretion of the justices. In asking the court to review his case, Smollett had argued that the lower court’s opinion “threatens to upend all informal and formal deferred prosecution agreements.” Former Cook County Judge Michael Toomin appointed Webb, a former U.S. attorney, as special prosecutor amid scrutiny around the decision, finding that Foxx did not go through the formal process for recusing herself from the case. Webb later refiled the charges.

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