CHICAGO (Rters) -Actor Jsie Smollett, one-time star of the TV drama "Empire," was found guilty on Thursday of stagg a hate crime agast himself what prosecutors said was a bid to ga sympathy and boost his reer. Prosecutors said Smollett, who is Black and gay, lied to police when he told them that he was acsted on a dark Chigo street by two masked strangers January 2019. The Cook County Circu Court jury, which liberated for ne hours, found Smollett, 39, guilty of five of the six felony disorrly nduct unts he faced, one for each time he was acced of lyg to police.
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Prosecutors said Smollett, who is Black and gay, lied to police when he told them that he was acsted on a dark Chigo street by two masked strangers January actor fac a maximum sentence of three years prison for each unt when he is sentenced, although he uld be given Cook County Circu Court jury, which liberated for ne hours, found Smollett, 39, guilty of five of the six felony disorrly nduct unts he faced, one for each time he was acced of lyg to police.
GAY ADULT FILM STAR MIKE DOZER GETS AT LEAST 8 YEARS ADD TO HIS PRISON SENTENCE – VIDEO
Smollett claimed the attackers threw a noose around his neck and poured chemils on him while yellg racist and homophobic slurs and exprsns of support for former Print Donald arrted the actor a month later, sayg that he paid two brothers $3, 500 to stage the attack an effort to raise his show-bs profile.