Jussie Smollett sentenced to 5 months in jail; proclaims his innocence
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Smollett yelled several times that he "is not suicidal" after receiving his sentence, saying that if anything happens to him in jail, he didn't do it to himself.
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After being handed his sentence for staging a fake hate crime, Jussie Smollett had a bizarre outburst in the courtroom, in which he insisted that he was not suicidal....
Capping off a bizarre three-year saga meant to inflame racial tensions and vilify Trump supporters, actor Jussie Smollett stunned a Chicago courtroom shouting that he was not going to kill himself behind bars after being sentenced to 150 days in jail Thursday for lying to police over a phony…
Smollett yelled several times that he "is not suicidal" after receiving his sentence, saying that if anything happens to him in jail, he didn't do it to himself.
Jussie Smollett repeatedly exclaimed he "is not suicidal" in the courtroom Thursday after a judge sentenced him to 150 days in jail and 30 months probation.
