Jussie Smollett Latest News Update 2024. Actor jussie smollett is asking the illinois supreme court to review a ruling that upheld his cook county conviction for lying about an alleged hate crime, court records show. The illinois supreme court will hear an appeal of actor jussie smollett’s disorderly conduct conviction for staging a racist and homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lying to chicago police.
The illinois supreme court has overturned actor jussie smollett’s conviction on charges that he staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lied to chicago police Jussie smollett’s attorney says ‘rule of law was the big winner’ after the illinois supreme court decided on thursday to overturn the actor’s false crime conviction.