{"id":1135199,"date":"2021-12-20T19:19:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T00:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1135199"},"modified":"2021-12-20T19:19:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T00:19:40","slug":"judge-orders-release-of-full-report-on-jussie-smollett-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-orders-release-of-full-report-on-jussie-smollett-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Orders Release of Full Report on Jussie Smollett Investigation"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fjudge-orders-release-of-full-report-on-jussie-smollett-investigation%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=1135199&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--><p class=\"subheading\">CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 A report detailing missteps and false statements made by prosecutors in the initial investigation of former \u201cEmpire\u201d actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/jussie-smollett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jussie Smollett<\/a> should be made public, a judge ruled Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Smollett was convicted this month of lying to police in January 2019 about what he said was a racist, homophobic attack in downtown Chicago. Prosecutors said Smollett, who is Black and gay, staged a fake attack to get publicity. He is expected to be sentenced next year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The report to be released Monday includes detailed findings by special prosecutor Dan Webb, who took over the case after Cook County State\u2019s Attorney Kim Foxx dropped charges against Smollett in March 2019. He was tasked with investigating Foxx\u2019s handling of the case and whether Smollett should face charges.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19201866\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21229840215913.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19201866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21229840215913.jpg\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"1077\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>FILE \u2013 Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx has asked any possible victims or witnesses of alleged abuse by singer R. Kelly to contact her office Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo\/Teresa Crawford, File)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Webb released a portion of the report in 2020. It found Foxx and her office repeatedly abused their discretion and made false public statements, including saying that dropping charges as they did in the Smollett case was a routine occurrence. Webb also concluded they did nothing criminal.<\/p>\n<p>A grand jury in 2020 indicted Smollett on new charges of lying. He was convicted on five of six counts of disorderly conduct, a low-level felony. Smollett has maintained his innocence, and his attorney says they will appeal the conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Cook County Judge Michael Toobin, who appointed Webb as special prosecutor to look into the case, ruled Monday that his full report should be made public now that Smollett\u2019s trial is complete. Webb\u2019s office was expected to release it hours after the morning ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 A report detailing missteps and false statements made by prosecutors in the initial investigation of former \u201cEmpire\u201d actor Jussie Smollett should be made public, a judge ruled &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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-1135199","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\/1135199","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135199\/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=1135199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}