Jussie Smollett scheduled to be sentenced for hate crime hoax
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Former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett is scheduled to be sentenced in a Chicago court Thursday after being convicted last year of staging a fake hate crime -- though his attorneys will first try to persuade a judge to set aside the guilty verdict.
Smollett, 39, was found guilty in December on five counts of felony disorderly conduct for making false reports to police that he was the victim of a hate crime in January 2019.
At a hearing for Smollett's sentencing Thursday afternoon, attorneys are first expected to argue before Judge James Linn over the actor's request to toss the verdict or grant him a new trial.
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