WTF???? All charges against Jussie Smollett dropped

Bricktop · March 28, 2019, 08:19:47 PM

I dunno...make an example of corrupt officials like this, and others will think twice.

Wazzzup · March 29, 2019, 11:36:57 AM

~~Quote from: "Bricktop"~~I dunno...make an example of corrupt officials like this, and others will think twice.

Yep that's what needs to happen.

She should be disbarred for this, but doubt that will happen. Hopefully she will be thrown out in the next election

I'm surprised she hasn't played the race card yet, probably coming soon.

Wazzzup · March 29, 2019, 11:43:44 AM

The Mayor of Chicago sent a bill for $130,000 to Smollett for overtime hours.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/28/jussie-smollett-rahm-emanuel-bill-investigation-costs/3299899002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 299899002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/28/jussie-smollett-rahm-emanuel-bill-investigation-costs/3299899002/

Smollett's liars, er lawyers said the mayor and the police chief ought to apologize to smollett for hounding an innocent man.

The Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association issued a statement condemning what Kim Foxx did--

~~Quote~~When an elected State's Attorney recuses herself from a prosecution, Illinois law provides that the court shall appoint a special prosecutor. See 55 ILCS 5/3-9008(a-15). Typically, the special prosecutor is a neighboring State's Attorney, the Attorney General, or the State Appellate Prosecutor. Here, the State's Attorney kept the case within her office and thus never actually recused herself as a matter of law.

Additionally, the Cook County State's Attorney's office falsely informed the public that the uncontested sealing of the criminal court case was "mandatory" under Illinois law. This statement is not accurate. To the extent the case was even eligible for an immediate seal, that action was discretionary, not mandatory, and only upon the proper filing of a petition to seal. See 20 ILCS 2630/5.2(g)(2). For seals not subject to Section 5.2(g)(2), the process employed in this case by the State's Attorney effectively denied law enforcement agencies of legally required Notice (See 20 ILCS 2630/5.2(d)(4)) and the legal opportunity to object to the sealing of the file (See 20 ILCS 2630/5.2(d)(5)). The State's Attorney not only declined to fight the sealing of this case in court, but then provided false information to the public regarding it.

The appearance of impropriety here is compounded by the fact that this case was not on the regularly scheduled court call, the public had no reasonable notice or opportunity to view these proceedings, and the dismissal was done abruptly at what has been called an "emergency" hearing. To date, the nature of the purported emergency has not been publicly disclosed. The sealing of a court case immediately following a hearing where there was no reasonable notice or opportunity for the public to attend is a matter of grave public concern and undermines the very foundation of our public court system.

Lastly, the State's Attorney has claimed this arrangement is "available to all defendants" and "not a new or unusual practice." There has even been an implication it was done in accordance with a statutory diversion program. These statements are plainly misleading and inaccurate. This action was highly unusual, not a statutory diversion program, and not in accordance with well accepted practices of State's Attorney initiated diversionary programs. The IPBA supports diversion programs, and recognizes the many benefits they provide to the community, the defendant and to the prosecuting agency. Central to any diversion program, however, is that the defendant must accept responsibility. To be clear here, this simply was not a deferred prosecution.

Prosecutors must be held to the highest standard of legal ethics in the pursuit of justice. The actions of the Cook County State's Attorney have fallen woefully short of this expectation. Through the repeated misleading and deceptive statements to the public on Illinois law and circumstances surrounding the Smollett dismissal, the State's Attorney has failed in her most fundamental ethical obligations to the public. The IPBA condemns these actions.

Anonymous · March 29, 2019, 11:48:58 AM

Hounding an innocent man in prog speak means charging a scumbag for his crimes.

Wazzzup · March 29, 2019, 12:12:03 PM

~~Quote from: "iron horse jockey"~~Hounding an innocent man in prog speak means charging a scumbag for his crimes.

Yeah, they are fully in ass backwardsville.

I heard on the radio yesterday some prognazis (like VOX) were saying that it was "racist" of Trump to tweet that letting Smollett go was a disgrace.

Frood · March 29, 2019, 12:14:55 PM

Hello race wars.

Anonymous · March 29, 2019, 12:16:08 PM

~~Quote from: "Wazzzup"~~
~~Quote from: "iron horse jockey"~~Hounding an innocent man in prog speak means charging a scumbag for his crimes.
Yeah, they are fully in ass backwardsville.

I heard on the radio yesterday some prognazis (like VOX) were saying that it was "racist" of Trump to tweet that letting Smollett go was a disgrace.

To be expected from the Russia collusion conspiracy theorists.

JOE · March 29, 2019, 12:33:16 PM

Sad part of this story like all the others comin from the USA these days, is it evokes memories of a not-to-distant past when White & Black stood on the same stage together as equals in an act of solidarity rather than on separate ones which divided us.

I thought this tune reminded of that this

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