Jussie Smollet Sentenced To Five Months In Jail, 30 Months Felony Probation For Staging Hate Crime

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not suicidal,” Smollet responded when asked if he had any questions about his sentence. “I am NOT suicidal. I am innocent. And I am not suicidal.” Smollet continued, raising his voice and standing. “If I did this then it means I stuck my fist in the fears of Black Americans in this country for over 400 years, and the fears of the LGBTQ community.” “Your honor, I respect you and I respect the jury.

But I did not do this and I am not suicidal. And, if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself, and you must all know that.” “This is not for the public,” Judge James Linn said ahead of handing out the sentence, noting the public and media interest in Smollet’s proceedings. “The sentence handed down today is strictly for Mr.

Smollett.” Linn added that there was no punishment he could possibly hand out that would be any worse than what Smollett had already done to himself and his career through his own “misconduct and shenanigans,” accusing him of doing damage to real hate crime victims in the long term through what he further described as Smollett’s “arrogant and narcissistic,” “attention-seeking” actions.“Your very name has become an adverb for lying,” Linn continued. “I can’t think of anything worse than that.”Smollett, 39, was found guilty on five of six felony counts of disorderly conduct in early December 2021, one charge for each time he lied to police about the details of the fabricated attack in January 2019.

He was found not guilty on a charge of lying to a detective over the same incident in February of that same year. Disorderly conduct is a class 4 felony that has sentencing potential of up to three years in prison.At the time of the ruling, a member of the prosecution team called the.