CHICAGO -- Jussie Smollett spent his first night behind bars after a judge sentenced him to five months for faking a racist and homophobic attack. Thursday's sentencing hearing ended dramatically as ...

The Illinois Supreme Court has reversed Jussie Smollett's hoax conviction after it was found that there was a "violation of due process" thanks to a special prosecutor's attempt to retry the actor. In ...

In a stunning ruling Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned the conviction of actor Jussie Smollett for an alleged hoax hate crime, a move that will spare the former “Empire” star a ...

Jussie Smollett recently reflected on his "darkest day"—his arrest five years ago for allegedly staging a hate crime. Despite facing multiple felony charges and a conviction for disorderly conduct, ...

The Illinois Supreme Court reversed the conviction of Jussie Smollett who was accused of filing false reports of a hate crime against him. The incident at the center of the case happened in 2019 when ...

Jussie Smollett is reflecting on his “darkest day” — the day he was arrested — five years after it happened. “That was a pretty dark day because that’s when everything clicked to me of what was ...

The five disorderly conduct convictions for Jussie Smollett were overturned on Thursday by the Illinois Supreme Court, which ruled a special prosecutor’s decision to retry the “Empire” star after ...