Thu Mar 17, 2022 – 2:34 pm EDT
CHICAGO (LifeSiteNews) — Left-wing actor Jussie Smollett was released from jail Wednesday just days after he was sentenced to five months behind bars for fabricating a hate crime allegedly committed against himself in 2019.
After posting a $150,000 personal recognizance bond, Smollett walked out of Cook County Jail in Chicago on the evening of March 16.
Smollett’s release came just days after Judge James Linn sentenced the “Empire” actor to 30 months felony probation, including 150 days in jail, for lying to law enforcement officers about an alleged January 2019 racist and homophobic “hate crime” of which he claimed to be the victim.
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The 39-year-old actor’s release came in response to an appeals court order that Smollett be allowed to go free pending appeal of his conviction.
According to The Chicago Tribune, “The only explanation offered in the order was that Smollett has never been convicted of a violent offense and would have completed his sentence of incarceration well before his
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