This has Big Mike's chicken grease fingerprints all over it. I hope Jussie is ready to get spit roasted because Barry and Mike are going to expect something in return for all the strings they've pulled for this faggot.
It sounds like the appeal was shit-flinging against the whole process and something stuck.
...In his appeal, Smollett argued that Cook County prosecutors dropping the case resolved it, similar to a deferred prosecution agreement, particularly because he forfeited his bail.
Attorneys for the state, though, among other arguments, contended that prosecutors who drop charges are not precluded from refiling charges in the same case.
In the majority opinion delivered by Judge David Navarro and concurred with by Judge Mary Ellen Coghlan, the judges wrote that Smollett “challenges virtually every aspect of the second prosecution that resulted in his convictions and sentence.”
“The record does not establish that Smollett entered into a nonprosecution agreement with the (Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office), in which the (office) agreed to forgo further prosecution of him in exchange for his performance of community service and the forfeiture of his bond,” the opinion reads. [earlier in the article] After the decision, Smollett asked the state’s high court to hear the case, a decision up to the discretion of the judges. 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."
Well, whatever "agreement" there was, the dissenting judge from the appellate court claimed that there was merit to Smollett's argument because he fulfilled his responsibility from it.
Judge Freddrenna Lyle dissented, arguing that “Smollett gave up something of value, community service and bond forfeiture, in exchange for a nolle of the whole indictment.”
I can only assume this is the main part of the appeal that the higher court is taking up.
"Your Honor, I did all this to make Trump and his supporters look bad. The now Vice President used my delusion as a springboard to get some racist policies in place. You have to see the forest for the trees and it's just (D)ifferent"
This has Big Mike's chicken grease fingerprints all over it. I hope Jussie is ready to get spit roasted because Barry and Mike are going to expect something in return for all the strings they've pulled for this faggot.
You’ve got to be kidding. That story had holes in it from the beginning
How many times has he doubled down on this bullshit now?
Infinity down.
What more needs to be said. It had plot holes bigger than the two guys he hired to rough him up.
It sounds like the appeal was shit-flinging against the whole process and something stuck.
There's no such thing as an "informal" deferred prosecution agreement and he should have known that, or his idiot lawyers should have.
Verbal agreements don't hold water with no evidence to back it up.
Well, whatever "agreement" there was, the dissenting judge from the appellate court claimed that there was merit to Smollett's argument because he fulfilled his responsibility from it.
I can only assume this is the main part of the appeal that the higher court is taking up.
Illinois is a hell hole anyway.
He's stuck forever telling a lie he knows nobody believes. A slave to pride.
I assume it will be heard for the comedy value.
"Your Honor, I did all this to make Trump and his supporters look bad. The now Vice President used my delusion as a springboard to get some racist policies in place. You have to see the forest for the trees and it's just (D)ifferent"