Moments after learning he'd be going to jail, Jussie Smollett declared 'I am not suicidal!' and 'I did not do this!'
CHICAGO -- Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 30 months probation for lying to police about staging a hate crime attack against himself in Chicago, but will spend the first 150 days of the sentence in Cook County Jail, starting immediately.
"And if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself," Smollett added."And you must all know that." In considering the sentence, Linn said Smollett's"extreme" premeditation of the crime was an aggravating factor.Smollett walked into the Leighton Criminal Courts building flanked by his family and attorneys for his sentencing hearing at 1 p.m., where his defense team first sought to have the jury's verdict overturned on legal grounds.
Smollett's grandmother, testifying for the defense, asked Linn not to include prison time in his sentence for Smollett. "I watched my brother go from being a complete victim, which he still is. He was attacked, and he is now going to jail for being attacked," said Jocqui Smollett, his youngest brother."He is a survivor and he has been completely mistreated. This has to stop!"
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