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

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.

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

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

Jussie Smollett was found guilty on five counts of felony disorderly conduct in 2021 after prosecutors said he lied in a ...

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share In a stunning ruling Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned the conviction of actor Jussie Smollett for an alleged hoax hate crime, a move that will ...

Nearly six years after actor Jussie Smollett was accused of staging a hate-crime hoax in downtown Chicago and lying to police, the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned his conviction over ...

Jussie Smollett's attorney said the actor was "harmed substantially" after he was found guilty of lying about a 2019 hate crime in an interview with "GMA3" following the overturning of his conviction.

What shocks Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo is that the actor still won’t own up to what he did. Jussie Smollett’s conviction for staging a fake racist and homophobic attack in Jan. 2019 was ...