Members Faulkner Posted March 25, 2019 Members Share Posted March 25, 2019 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 26, 2019 Members Share Posted March 26, 2019 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted March 26, 2019 Members Share Posted March 26, 2019 Ooh. Who did he flip on and about what? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 26, 2019 Members Share Posted March 26, 2019 Well, Chicago PD has endless amounts of corruption and malfeasance so I'd wager to guess that it probably begins there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChitHappens Posted March 26, 2019 Members Share Posted March 26, 2019 I hope this does not mean Jamal is returning Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 26, 2019 Members Share Posted March 26, 2019 Trump, and the Russians. I'm kidding. (But maybe not.) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted March 26, 2019 Members Share Posted March 26, 2019 What a mess....I guess if you've got money...it talks.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 26, 2019 Members Share Posted March 26, 2019 It can't all be chalked up to an expensive, superior legal defense. I mean, no community service? There's got to be some type of malfeasance within the Chicago PD and possibly the prosecutor's office. Again, this is the Chicago PD we're talking about, there is bound to be tons of corruption if one does a deeper probe. Most of the black men that CPD busts are poor with no resources, this one was clearly not one of them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Money Posted March 26, 2019 Members Share Posted March 26, 2019 I’m so confused I don’t even know where to begin. Smollet initially said he was attacked by 2 MAGA white guys. He said he saw the skin around their eyes through their masks and knew they were white. He refused to give up his phone. The Nigerian brothers said they were paid by Smollet and were seen on camera buying the masks and noose. The brothers were let go and were no longer persons of interests. Chicago police are spitting mad because Smollet wasted their time and deduced this was all an elaborate scheme by Smollet for a pay raise who was about to be fired. Network says otherwise. Now all charges are dropped. No plea deal was struck and no community service was mentioned so I have even more questions now than I did before. My threshold for Smollet and by extension Empire has reached it's limit. Even if they don’t bring Smollet back, Empire is done. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 26, 2019 Members Share Posted March 26, 2019 Don't forget about those leaks by the Chicago PD. The case was always going to be very messy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted March 26, 2019 Members Share Posted March 26, 2019 What a mess. How does Fox handle this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChitHappens Posted March 26, 2019 Members Share Posted March 26, 2019 Why exactly were the charges dropped? Was he declared innocent after all or the cops and DA blundered so badly with the leaks they dropped the charges? Does fox have to hire him back if he's not innocent? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ReddFoxx Posted March 26, 2019 Members Share Posted March 26, 2019 The state's attorney probably made some error that would have gotten their case thrown out. I cannot imagine anything other than that reason getting this case dismissed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChitHappens Posted March 26, 2019 Members Share Posted March 26, 2019 Exactly! I truly believe Jussie did this but Chicago botched the case and Jussie will skate. In this case, I don't believe Empire has to hire him back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 26, 2019 Members Share Posted March 26, 2019 My theory: Jussie's attorney(s) argued at a motion meeting that a key piece of evidence against him be suppressed on one set of legal grounds or another. The judge agreed; and either he further ruled that the charges against Jussie be dismissed (for example, that evidence, which is now inadmissible, led to the discovery of further evidence, which has to be thrown out as well), or the DA's office reasoned that, without that evidence, they could not guarantee a guilty verdict against Jussie come trial time. Again, that's just my theory. Keep in mind, though, that should the DA's office pursue this case any further, they can (and probably will) re-arrest and re-arraign Jussie, especially if they can prove inevitable discovery on any or all evidence that might've been suppressed. No "double jeopardy" rules apply, since Jussie has not been officially tried for the crime. By the way, I watch entirely too much "Law & Order." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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