Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 26 2019 08:49am)

okay get this

this is not confirmed yet since we're still pending details BUT
apparently this is how the "logic" of the prosecutors went:

>judge mentioned in court how Jussie has previously done community service volunteering (not as part of a plea deal, not an order- but talking about his previous volunteering
>the prosecutors are claiming that if convicted, he would only get community service, which he "all ready served" so there is no point in charging him.

if that's what actually went down, I'm fucking flabbergasted

Quote (Beowulf @ Mar 26 2019 09:51am)

uh?

that might be even to the left of me on criminal justice reform if true

Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 26 2019 08:53am)

edited to include;
https://twitter.com/RaferWeigel/status/1110563447895408640?s=19
he was reliable on the story details as it broke, and has a real source in the CPD

so this is for real. The prosecutors are actually rationalizing dropping 18 felony counts and letting a guy scot free on a high profile national case despite buckets of evidence because he... landed on a get-out-of-jail free space a dozen turns ago?
what
what

/e also its being reported that Kim Foxx was the one who pulled the trigger on dropping the charges, and she was the AG that was supposed to recuse herself?

Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 26 2019 08:53am)

edited to include;
https://twitter.com/RaferWeigel/status/1110563447895408640?s=19
he was reliable on the story details as it broke, and has a real source in the CPD

so this is for real. The prosecutors are actually rationalizing dropping 18 felony counts and letting a guy scot free on a high profile national case despite buckets of evidence because he... landed on a get-out-of-jail free space a dozen turns ago?
what
what

/e also its being reported that Kim Foxx was the one who pulled the trigger on dropping the charges, and she was the AG that was supposed to recuse herself?
even for chicago this isn't believable.

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The actor, who was charged with 16 counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly hiring two men to attack him in a staged hate-crime attack near his Streeterville home in January, has reached a deferred prosecution deal with prosecutors that wipes out the charges against him. The $10,000 posted for Smollett’s bond will be turned over to the City of Chicago Law Department.

The hearing lasted less than 5 minutes. Judge Steven G. Watkins sealed the case file.

“After reviewing all of the facts and circumstances of the case, including Mr. Smollett’s volunteer service in the community and agreement to forfeit his bond to the City of Chicago, we believe this outcome is a just disposition and appropriate resolution to this case,” the Cook County state’s attorney’s office said in statement.

Quote (Goomshill @ 26 Mar 2019 16:49)

okay get this

this is not confirmed yet since we're still pending details BUT
apparently this is how the "logic" of the prosecutors went:

>judge mentioned in court how Jussie has previously done community service volunteering (not as part of a plea deal, not an order- but talking about his previous volunteering
>the prosecutors are claiming that if convicted, he would only get community service, which he "all ready served" so there is no point in charging him.

if that's what actually went down, I'm fucking flabbergasted

https://twitter.com/RaferWeigel/status/1110563447895408640?s=19

Rafer Weigel was the guy breaking the story reliably when it was coming out, so uh...
fuck me, that's the dumbest fucking shit I've read all week and I've been on /r/politics during the mueller meltdown
that makes such a mockery out of the law. That's not how the law works. That's not how logic works. That's not how anything works.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Mar 26 2019 09:05am)

stunning.

imho, what he did was a hate crime in and off itself. what he did was inciting, and intended to incite, hate and social discord...