# @thewrap on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DCpGOhJyHAj
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/25040995-thewrap-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-11-21T17:40:45.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Wrap (@thewrap) — https://gondola.cc/thewrap

## Caption

The five disorderly conduct convictions for #JussieSmollett were overturned Thursday by the Illinois Supreme Court, which ruled a special prosecutor’s decision to retry the #Empire actor after state charges were dropped violated his rights.

A jury convicted Smollett on five felony counts of disorderly conduct, a charge that can be filed in Illinois when a person lies to police. Smollett was accused of staging a racist and homophobic attack against himself in downtown Chicago in 2019.

His conviction and jail sentence were upheld last December by an Illinois appeals court, which also heard his team’s argument that a special prosecutor should not have been allowed to intervene after the Cook County state’s attorney dropped all charges. But the Illinois Supreme Court disagreed with that portion, and remanded the case to the trial court to enter a dismissal.

Smollett had served only six days of his 150-day sentence, the rest of which will be vacated when a lower court dismisses the case.

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jussiesmollett, empire

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