One unidentified juror from the Jussie Smollett case is making some breakthrough revelations on how the panel failed to buy the actor’s claims regarding his hate crime.
The juror from the Empire actor’s trial stated how the panel failed to believe his side of the story, adding how they knew he was lying when he got up and began speaking at the witness’s stand.
The unnamed juror claimed that it was obvious to so many sitting there that the actor was not speaking the truth at his disorderly conduct trial. In addition to that, the juror stated how the panel found the brother duo’s claims regarding how the actor paid them to stage the entire hate crime drama to be more credible.
In addition to that, the panel certainly felt that they were doing the Empire star a huge favor by charging him for only 5 of the 6 counts of a felony on disorderly conduct that he was currently facing.
“It certainly was not an easy decision,” she explained while speaking for an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times.
“You have the mother sitting right there in the front and you feel bad too. We did not know what the penalty would be. Are we going to be sending this guy to jail?”-she went on to explain.
39-year-old Smollett was recently accused of staging an attack in Chicago on January 29th, 2019. And that is where the star paid two brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo nearly $3,500 to conduct a drama relating to phony assault.
Smollett who happens to be black and gay revealed to authorities how attackers yelled both homophobic and racist slurs at him, which was the reason why he was left with no choice but to file a police report as a victim subject to hate crime.