Jussie Smollett is being let out of Cook County Jail prison on a $150 000 bond after concerns for his safety.<\/p>\n
The former \u2018Empire\u2019 star will be freed while he appeals his guilt after being convicted of lying about being a victim of a racist and homophobic attack last week in Chicago. <\/p>\n
This comes after the 39-year-old actor was sentenced to 150 days in prison and $140 000 in fines and restitution by Judge James Linn of Cook County, who labelled him \u201ca charlatan\u201d as he handed down his punishment. <\/p>\n He said: \u201cYou\u2019re not a victim of a racial hate crime, you\u2019re not a victim of a homophobic hate crime. <\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime, and that\u2019s shameful.\u201d<\/p>\n However, the First District Court of Appeals has decided that Jussie should be freed after six days of jail time. The actor\u2019s lawyers believed that he could have served only 75 days following good behaviour. <\/p>\n In addition, his attorneys outlined their concern for his mental health, wellbeing and falling victim to attacks from other inmates. <\/p>\n Jussie was found guilty of five counts of felony disorderly conduct for lying to police following an eight-day trail in regards to the 2019 incident.<\/p>\n Throughout, Jussie has maintained his innocence and told the court he was not suicidal after he was given his sentenced. <\/p>\n In court, he said: \u201cI am not suicidal. If anything happens to me when I go in there, you must all know that.\u201d<\/p>\n After being moved out of a psychiatric ward at Cook County Jail, he will be released on a $150 000 personal recognisance bond.<\/p>\n Source <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jussie Smollett is being let out of Cook County Jail prison on a $150 000 bond after concerns for his safety. The former \u2018Empire\u2019 star will be freed while he appeals his guilt after being convicted of lying about being a victim of a racist and homophobic attack last week in Chicago. This comes after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1024043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/gp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1eba024c-b6e0-50c8-8617-2743469ac8d1.jpg\")