The Illinois Supreme Court threw out Jussie Smollett's conviction after finding the state's prosecution unfair due to an ...

Smollett had been accused of orchestrating a racist and homophobic attack on himself in downtown Chicago in 2019.

In 2021, Smollett was found guilty of five counts of disorderly conduct after it turned out he set up the attack.

The court overturned the case based on the procedural issue of a due-process violation during the years of high-profile legal ...

Illinois court overturns actor Jussie Smollett’s conviction on charges of staging racist, homophobic attack on himself ...

The two brothers who admitted to helping actor Jussie Smollett stage the actor’s 2019 assault declared the Illinois Supreme ...

The real injustice here was the sweetheart deal that [Smollett] was given by Kim Foxx’s office at the beginning of all of ...

The Illinois Supreme Court overturned American actor and singer, Jussie Smollett's 2019 hate crime hoax conviction on Thursday, citing due process violations. The court ruled that the actor’s ...

Jussie Smollett's conviction for orchestrating a fake hate crime was overturned, but his admitted accomplices laughed at the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett's conviction for allegedly staging a hate crime against himself in Chicago in 2019. The state's ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of actor Jussie Smollett. The former “Empire” actor took his case to the Illinois Supreme Court in September in a ...