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Judge: @JussieSmollett’s PR antics justify unsealing case file hotair.com/archives/2019/…
Everyone will soon be able to see the evidence police put together in accusing Jussie Smollett of a hate-crime hoax — and he only has himself and his legal team to blame.
Ruling that the Empire actor actively promoted his arrest and quasi-dismissal, a judge in Chicago ruled in favor of media outlets and ordered the case records unsealed.
Judge Stephen Watkins, who presided over a March hearing where prosecutors abruptly dropped their case against Smollett for faking a hate crime attack near his Streeterville home, ruled in favor of a request from media groups to make public all records in Smollett’s case.
Watkins said that Smollett’s demand for privacy was contradicted by his media appearances before he was charged and after the case was dropped.
“Smollett voluntarily appeared on national television speaking about the incident in detail,” Watkins said, reading from a written court order. “After the March dismissal, he stood in front of numerous cameras… in the courthouse lobby speaking about the case.”
“These are not the actions of a person seeking simply to maintain his privacy or simply to be let alone.
