Jussie Smollett was late arriving at his sentencing hearing Thursday, but that didn’t mean that Judge James Linn was going to rush. Linn took his good sweet time lecturing Smollett, who chose not to testify on his own behalf. The judge sentenced Smollett to 150 days in jail for faking a hate crime, but not without roasting him first:
The judge sentencing hate crime HOAXER Jussie Smollett is absolutely FLAMING him right now. š„š„š„
Just GLORIOUS. pic.twitter.com/uAFvmTXS85
— Danny De Urbina (@dannydeurbina) March 11, 2022
Smollett’s also been hit with a $25,000 fine and will pay restitution to the police.
Matt Finn has been covering the hearing for Fox News:
Jussie Smollettās 92 yo grandma just looked at the media from the bench and said theyāre not doing a good job doing investigating reporting. She knows because she does documentaries and lived through the McCarthy era
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) March 10, 2022
Letters to judge asking for mercy for Jussie Smollett:
-BLM
-Rainbow Push, Jessie Jackson
-Illinois Innocence Project
-Samuel L. Jackson and wife— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) March 10, 2022
Linn says that Smollett lied to the first responding CPD officer and "you haven't stopped lying ever since. You've been lying and lying and lying about this case and that's why you're here today."
— Sam Charles (@samjcharles) March 11, 2022
Judge to Smollett: you have been lying, lying about this case and that's why you're here today … you caused a major investigation … that caused great stress
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) March 11, 2022
CHICAGO (AP) ā Judge to Jussie Smollett: "You're just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime, and that's shameful."
— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) March 11, 2022
Judge: you repeated your lies at the hospital, from my vantage point, I thought the jury's verdict was accurate. Correct. Overwhelming evidence of guilt against you.
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) March 11, 2022
Judge to Smollett: your very name now has become an adverb for lying … pulling a Jussie…I can't imagine anything worse than that.
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) March 11, 2022
Smollett, who if you ask us got off pretty easy, made quite a fuss.
Jussie Smollett bursts out after his sentence is read saying repeatedly "I am not suicidal" and "I am innocent."
— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) March 11, 2022
Breaking: Smollett reacting in court right now. "I DID NOT DO THIS. I'm not suicidal. If anything happens to me when I go in there, you must all know that. Jail time, I am not suicidal."
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) March 11, 2022
Smollett is now insisting that he is innocent and that he is not suicidal.
He's making a scene.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) March 11, 2022
Smollett wants people to know that if he dies in prison he is not suicidal and did not do it to himself.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) March 11, 2022
Uhhh- so did Jussie just announce that heās going to kill himself in jail and blame it on somebody else? Stop hoaxinā, Jussie. Get the hell outta here. #JussieSmollet #jussie
— Brandon Straka (@BrandonStraka) March 11, 2022
Jussieās outbursts of āI AM NOT SUICIDALā is the funniest thing Iāve ever seen.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 11, 2022
https://twitter.com/MattFinnFNC/status/1502081594164531204
Jussie Smollett is a terrible actor. His name is now synonymous with telling lies. Here he is, claiming he is not suicidal. pic.twitter.com/ADtrup8ood
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 11, 2022
Smollett’s going straight to jail from the courthouse.
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Update:
Any day is a good day to dunk on Brian Stelter:
https://twitter.com/hale_razor/status/1502082598465458176
Related:
āSmollett REALLY brought out the geniusesā: Compilation should embarrass TF out of EVERYONE who bought into #JussieSmollettās hoax (watch) https://t.co/NjJPICzw4K
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 13, 2021
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