Verdict GUILTY

UPDATE: Guilty on five of six counts for filing a false police report related to the hoax racist attack he claimed to suffer at the hands of two men in January 2019

According to numerous media reports, the jury in the Jussie Smollett fake hate crime case has reached a verdict.

The jury verdict is expected around 6:00pm EDT.

(LA Times) – […] The jury deliberated about eight hours Wednesday and Thursday after a roughly one-week trial in which two brothers testified that Smollett recruited them to fake the attack near his home in downtown Chicago in January 2019. They said Smollett orchestrated the hoax, telling them to put a noose around his neck and rough him up in view of a surveillance camera, and that he said he wanted video of the hoax made public via social media. (read more)