{"id":240774,"date":"2021-12-09T17:25:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T23:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=240774"},"modified":"2021-12-09T17:32:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T23:32:57","slug":"jury-reaches-verdict-jussie-smolletts-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=240774","title":{"rendered":"Jussie Smollett Found Guilty, 5 of 6 Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\">FOX News<\/a>\u00a0 Jussie Smollett has been found guilty on 5 out of 6 charges in the alleged hate crime hoax <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/entertainment\/events\/in-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The jury finds Smollett guilty on the first five counts and not guilty on the last one after a contentious week of witness testimony, counsel arguments and deliberation.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/entertainment\/tv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Empire<\/a>&#8221; alum was charged with six counts of disorderly conduct related to false statements to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a> police officers in regard to a 2019 hate crime against himself. In 2019, he claimed that two men attacked him due to his skin color and sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop ad-h-50 ad-w-300\">\n<div id=\"desktop_desk-art-ent-lb2\" class=\"ad gam\" data-iu=\"lb2\" data-ad-size=\"728x90,300x250,320x50,300x50,1x1,fluid\" data-ad-lz=\"1\" data-hot-unit=\"\" data-ad-init=\"1\" data-ad-slot-rendered=\"1\" data-rendered-size=\"0x0\" data-google-query-id=\"CIH4w-zv1_QCFVmOAAAdoV0DWg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4145\/fnc\/desk\/art\/ent\/lb2_0__container__\">\n<div style=\"right: 0; width: 300px; height: 50px; background: initial;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOX News\u00a0 Jussie Smollett has been found guilty on 5 out of 6 charges in the alleged hate crime hoax trial. The jury finds Smollett guilty on the first five counts and not guilty on the last one after a contentious week of witness testimony, counsel arguments and deliberation. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240780,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240774\/revisions\/240780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}