According to court docket paperwork obtained by Extra TV, the Empire star filed an attraction on Thursday to reverse his earlier conviction of felony disorderly conduct. Smollett was convicted one yr in the past for 5 counts of felony disorderly conduct after allegedly staging a hate crime in opposition to himself in 2019. He was acquitted on one depend. The actor’s lawyer Heather Widell wrote within the paperwork, “The renewed prosecution of Mr Smollett violated his due process rights.” “Mr Smollett fully performed his part of a non-prosecution agreement with the state by performing community service and forfeiting his $10,000 bail bond.”
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
