Smollett was first indicted on 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report, though Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx agreed to drop the charges if he paid $10,000 and did community service. A special prosecutor later charged him again, leading to his trial and conviction.

Actor Jussie Smollett’s conviction on charges that he staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself in downtown Chicago in 2019 and lied to police was overturned Thursday over prosecutorial issues in an Illinois Supreme Court decision that did ...

Nearly six years after actor Jussie Smollett was accused of staging a hate-crime hoax in downtown Chicago and lying to police, an Illinois Supreme Court decision overturned his conviction over prosecutorial issues,

In a somewhat surprise ruling, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned Jussie Smollett's 2019 conviction in an alleged hate crime attack hoax.

Smollett had been accused of orchestrating a racist and homophobic attack on himself in downtown Chicago in 2019.

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that he should not have been prosecuted a second time after the charges against him had been dismissed with a negotiated agreement.

The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett's conviction for allegedly staging a hate crime against himself in Chicago in 2019.The state's highest court did not weigh in on the merits of the case against Smollett,

The court overturned the case based on the procedural issue of a due process violation during the years of high-profile legal wrangling.