Jussie Smollett took the stand at his trial on Monday to tell jurors his side of the story about a 2019 attack that police and prosecutors say was a hoax he orchestrated, but that his defense team insists was real.Legal experts are divided on whether Smollett’s testimony in his own defense could help or hurt his case.Smollett faces six counts of disorderly conduct, accused of staging a fake hate crime attack against himself, and then lying to police about it.Smollett, who is Black and gay, had told police he was attacked as he was walking home on Lower North Water Street around 2 a.m.
on Jan. 29, 2019. He claimed two masked men – one of them also wearing a red hat – shouted racist and homophobic slurs as they beat him, put a noose around.
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