Actor Jussie Smollett, known for his role on the TV show Empire, will return to court in Chicago in late January for a post-trial hearing and will learn at a later date whether he is going to prison after being found guilty late faking a hate crime against himself to raise his celebrity profile.
The Chicago jury, which deliberated for more than nine hours, convicted Smollett on five charges of disorderly conduct. He was acquitted on a sixth count, of lying to a detective in mid-February 2019, weeks after Smollett said he was attacked.
The charges against Smollett, who is Black and gay and said he was drawn to the role of a Black gay man in Empire because it was still relatively rare to see such a character onscreen, had become a touchstone in America’s culture wars at the intersection of culture, racism, politics and celebrity. Just a thought.
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