{"id":1106148,"date":"2021-12-10T13:28:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T18:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1106148"},"modified":"2021-12-10T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T18:29:00","slug":"cnn-legal-analyst-jussie-smollett-testimony-exposed-himself-to-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-legal-analyst-jussie-smollett-testimony-exposed-himself-to-jail-time\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Legal Analyst: Jussie Smollett Testimony &#039;Exposed Himself to Jail Time&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-legal-analyst-jussie-smollett-testimony-exposed-himself-to-jail-time%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1106148&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/JussieSmollettkap2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">\u201cSo him taking the stand lead to&nbsp;his exposure in the way Joey has&nbsp;spoken about,\u201d Coates said. \u201cA judge is now looking at you,&nbsp;taking everything you had to say&nbsp;and assessing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">The actor\u2019s attorney said on Thursday that they will appeal the case, saying that \u201cjustice will prevail\u201d in the end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">\u201cHe [Smollett] is 100% confident that this will be reversed on appeal,\u201d attorney Nenye Uche said. \u201cAt the end of the day, we believe justice will prevail. We don\u2019t believe it was done today but we\u2019re very confident that he will be cleared and he will be found to be innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">Smollett\u2019s testimony made headlines for some of his wild accusations against the&nbsp;Osundairo brothers \u2013 the Nigerians he hired to stage the hoax hate crime \u2013 alleging that&nbsp;attacked him on a cold winter\u2019s Chicago night and then demanded $1 million for them not to testify.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">Among other things, Smollett also characterized Abimbola Osundairo as a jilted gay lover who grew jealous of his success on the show <em>Empire<\/em> after the two carried on a drugged-fueled sexual affair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">\u201cWe were in a club, you go to the bathroom, go to a stall, do a bump, do a bump and then just kind of keep going in and then we went to the bathhouse,\u201d Smollet said on the stand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">At one point, Smollett <a href=\"https:\/\/theblast.com\/137979\/jussie-smollett-asks-prosecutor-to-stop-using-the-n-word-during-acrimonious-cross-examination\/\">even snapped<\/a> at the prosecutor for reading his text messages that contained the N-word aloud in the courtroom, pleading with him to stop \u201cout of respect for every African American in the courtroom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo him taking the stand lead to\u00a0his exposure in the way Joey has\u00a0spoken about,\u201d Coates said. \u201cA judge is now looking at you,\u00a0taking everything you had to say\u00a0and assessing it.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}