Jussie Smollett will be tried for false complaint in connection with his 2019 assault

Jussie Smollett will finally be the subject of a trial for having lied to the police by filing a complaint for racist and homophobic assault. Indeed, the actor ofEmpire, who had asked the courts to dismiss the case without further action, was dismissed. A decision that did not fail to react his lawyer, Nenye Uche, who wishes to emphasize that his client has paid 10,000 dollars in bail and community service as part of an agreement that was to lead to on the classification of the file.

“A deal is a deal. It is an ancestral principle ”, noted the lawyer during a hearing reported by NBC News. Not enough to flex Judge James Linn who then noted that a second judge had instructed a special prosecutor to investigate the case and that he had no complaints about it. Jussie Smollett will therefore have to answer for the six charges brought against him in 2019, including a false complaint to the Chicago police.

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As a reminder, Jussie Smollett had claimed in January 2019 to have been the victim of a hate crime, two masked men having attacked him before making racist and homophobic attacks. In the absence of formal video evidence, the authorities ended up finding the two alleged attackers, Ola and Abel Osundairo, before suspecting the star of having staged his assault by paying a few thousand dollars for the two brothers.

Jussie Smollett then got away with it because in March of the same year, a court had lifted the charges. However, the Chicago police had immediately let it be known that things would not stop there and it would seem that justice resumed everything from the start with this new instruction.