A judge sentenced actor Jussie Smollett to 150 days in prison Thursday for filing multiple false police reports alleging he was the victim of a brutal homophobic hate crime.
Cook County Circuit Court Judge James Linn tore into Smollett during sentencing.
“You’re just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime,” the judge told Smollett, adding, “Your very name has become an adverb for ‘lying.’”
“Your performance on the witness stand can only be described as pure perjury,” the judge also told him. “You are now a permanently convicted felon.”
“There is nothing that I can do here today that will come close to the damage you’ve already done to your own life,” Linn added. “You turned your life upside down by your misconduct and shenanigans.”
“I believe that you did damage to real hate crime victims,” the judge said, chastising the disgraced actor.
“The officer asked you a simple question. And then you start to lie and haven’t stopped lying since,” the judge said. “You’ve been lying and lying and lying about this case, and that’s why you’re here today.”
The former Empire cast member reportedly responded to the sentence by repeatedly yelling, “I am not suicidal!”
“If anything happens to me in there, I did not do it,” he also reportedly said.
Breitbart reports Smollett was sentenced to “150 days in Cook County jail, 30 months of probation, pay a restitution of $120,106, and a fine of $25,000.”
Last December, Smollett was found guilty on 5 of 6 felony disorderly conduct counts, each carrying a maximum sentence of three years in prison.
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100% he kills himself in jail.
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The BLM leader is not the only one asking the judge for leniency in Smollett’s hate crime hoax case.
Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson and his wife LaTanya Richardson Jackson have also written a letter on behalf of the actor, asking Judge Linn Linn for leniency.
“It is with the respect of knowing this, that I humbly implore you to please find an alternative to incarceration for Jussie Smollett,” the Jacksons wrote in their letter.
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Jussie Smollett Released While He Appeals His Conviction
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