
Twelve jurors in Chicago criminal court found the disgraced actor guilty of five of six counts of felony disorderly conduct for filing a false police report following testimony from 13 witnesses and more than nine hours of deliberation.
As the jurors read out the verdict, Smollett, 39, stood huddled with his attorneys and kept his eyes trained on the panelists, remaining stoic as a phalanx of family members, who watched the eight-day trial from the front row of the gallery, sat frozen.
The actor, who took more than an hour to return to the courthouse to hear the jury's verdict and now faces up to three years in jail, was later seen embracing his siblings, some of whom didn't stand for the jury before the panelists left the courtroom.
Following the verdict, Smollett's lead defense attorney Nenye Uche said the actor plans to fight the conviction on appeal.












Comment: The last quotes of the article point to one of the biggest lessons of the Jussie Smollett Hoax: That it will take representatives of the law - who aren't politicized, radicalized or so corrupted - that they can actually do their job and hold the pathologized (and pathologizing) extremist Left in the US to account for their egregious lies and outrageous acts of violence.