After Judge James Linn read his sentence of former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett in a Chicago courtroom Thursday, the actor once again proclaimed his innocence, and said that “if anything happens” to him while he’s in prison that he did not take his own life.
Smollett, who was convicted in December of lying to police in connection with a staged hate crime, was sentenced to 150 days in jail in a hearing Thursday. He was also fined $25,000, ordered to pay more than $120,000 in restitution, and was sentenced to 30 months of felony probation.
“If I did this, then it means that I stuck my fist in the fears of Black Americans in this country for over 400 years and the fears of the LGBT community," Smollett said, standing up at the defense table as his lawyers and sheriff's deputies surrounded him. “Your Honor, I respect you and I respect the jury but I did not do this. And I am not suicidal. And if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself. And you must all know that.
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