Jussie Smollett Yahoo News 2024 News. 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. Empire actor jussie smollett, who was found guilty in 2021 of felony disorderly conduct stemming from a false police report he filed, has had his conviction overturned.

Five years after the empire actor was accused of falsely reporting a hate crime—for which he was sentenced to 150 days in jail in 2022, serving only six, after being convicted of five counts of. The illinois supreme court reversed the empire actor’s.