NEW: Actor Jussie Smollett has been ordered released from jail after a court agreed to stay the sentence handed down by a judge last week, court documents show.
Authorities said he orchestrated a phony assault. Smollett has denied that and said he is innocent.
On Thursday at sentencing, Cook County Circuit Judge James Linn excoriated Smollett and said he fabricated the hate crime in order to gain attention.Smollett had claimed that two men punched and kicked him, used racist and homophobic slurs, threw a chemical in his face and wrapped a noose around his neck.who worked on the set of"Empire" to stage the attack.
They are not criminally charged in the case, and their attorney said last week that the brothers"regret their role in the case and hope that the sentence today brings closure to the affected people of Chicago." On Thursday Linn sentenced Smollett to 30 months’ probation, including 150 days in jail. He was also ordered to pay around $120,100 in restitution to the city of Chicago, and he was fined $25,000They argued for the stay of the jail sentence by saying that Smollett would likely serve the 150 days of jail time as the appeals are pending.
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