Hoaxes For Dummies

 

Jussie Smollett is back in the news. He’s filed a countersuit against the City of Chicago for malicious prosecution. In case you’ve forgotten who Jussie Smollett is he claimed that two white MAGA men attacked him in the early morning hours as he was walking home with a Subway sandwich. As everyone knows, Chicago streets are dangerous because Trump supporters are out wilding when the temps drop into the teens in their relentless search for a gay black actor they can assault.

Smollett’s lawyers filed their two-count counterclaim late Tuesday. They delivered it in a 49-page response to a lawsuit first filed by the city, which seeks to recover $130,106 for the investigation it conducted after Smollett made his allegedly false claim in January. The actor leveled his new accusations against the city, the Chicago Police Department, detectives Michael Theis and Edward Wodnicki, CPD Supt. Eddie Johnson, and bodybuilding brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo.

Left out of the lawsuit was Kimmie Foxx, the George Soros State’s Attorney. Kimmie “recuse me” Foxx put the fix in that got Mr. Smollett off the hook for a hoax gone wrong.
“Four years ago, I ran for State’s Attorney to change criminal justice in Cook County. I’m running again because we’re only getting started,” Foxx said in an ad launching her re-election bid.
Kimmie Foxx has changed criminal justice in Chicago and that’s the one thing Chicago voters should remember when they go to the polls. “We’re only getting started” – I suppose the shooting and homicide rate isn’t high enough, and CPD morale hasn’t plummeted enough to satisfy her office.
My advice, let’s call it hoaxes for dummies, is don’t involve the police in any hoax you have committed. Police officers notice the little things. The detectives that interviewed Jussie in the early morning hours listening to his fighting for his life story noticed that the sandwich he carried home from Subway before his encounter made it through the attack unscathed. It’s the little things stupid. Taunting, and criticizing the Chicago Police Department in the media didn’t help his case.
Officers were criticized for leaking bits and pieces of the investigation to the media. They outfoxed the Foxx, they knew that there would be an attempt from the State’s Attorney’s Office to spike the investigation. They were right, and that’s the saddest part of this sordid story.
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  1. Rodin Member
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    Smollett is trying to put it back on the Osundairo Brothers to continue to claim it was not a hoax, but unless they were wearing “white face” (based on Smollett’s own claims that the attackers were white men in balaclavas) this cannot be so. There is no doubt that the Osundairo Brothers were there. The only question is whether they attacked him or it was staged. And when an “actor” is a victim, with profit in it him to be a victim, the stakes for “staged” are raised.

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  2. Susan Quinn Contributor
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    This man is like an incredibly irritating mosquito, buzzing endlessly around our heads and we can’t get him to go away. Go away, Jussie. Please

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  3. Doug Watt Member
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    Susan Quinn (View Comment):

    This man is like an incredibly irritating mosquito, buzzing endlessly around our heads and we can’t get him to go away. Go away, Jussie. Please

    Like Hillary Clinton he’s working towards the Most Irritating Person of the Year. Good luck to him it’s a crowded field.

     

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  4. Vectorman Inactive
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    Susan Quinn (View Comment):

    This man is like an incredibly irritating mosquito, buzzing endlessly around our heads and we can’t get him to go away. Go away, Jussie. Please

    Unless an actor is at poverty where he can get welfare, they should put at least 1/2 of their net income after taxes in a special “lock box” fund.

    If I was Jussie, I’d take the deal for $144 K to avoid prosecution. He can make it back being a “celebrity.”

     Of course, I wouldn’t even dream of doing this.

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  5. Vance Richards Inactive
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    Will the whole truth come out in court? I figured he would just settle without admitting guilt and pay a fine. Counter suing could just be for negotiating purposes, but I would really like to hear the testimony of the “attackers.”

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  6. Fake John/Jane Galt Coolidge
    Fake John/Jane Galt
    @FakeJohnJaneGalt

    I suspect that this will be settled out a court with Jussie Smollett getting a sizable settlement but without either party admitting any sort of guilt thus a win all around.

    The police acted stupidly not backing a minority celebrity with political ties to the Democrats.

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  7. Doug Watt Member
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    On March 26, 2019, all charges filed against Smollett were dropped, with Judge Steven Watkins ordering the public court file sealed. First Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Magats said the office reached a deal with Smollett’s defense team in which prosecutors dropped the charges upon Smollett performing 16 hours of community service and forfeiting his $10,000 bond.

    This was a big mistake made by the First Assistant’s State’s Attorney. A guilty plea as part of the deal should have been mandated. The officer’s named in the suit have a certain amount of protection from civil liability if they had good probable cause, and a reasonable belief that Mr. Smollett committed the crimes he was charged with.

    The lack of a guilty plea will complicate the civil suit, as would a No Contest plea would have done. Look for Mr. Smollett’s attorney’s to suppress the evidence that police collected, a task that would have been more difficult if he had plead guilty to the charges.

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  8. Percival Thatcher
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    @Percival

    Jussie is under the misapprehension that they will play this game by the rules.

    • This isn’t a game.
    • They aren’t playing.
    • They will “find” whatever rules they need.
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  9. TBA Coolidge
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    @RobtGilsdorf

    I guess this is his career now. 

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  10. Fake John/Jane Galt Coolidge
    Fake John/Jane Galt
    @FakeJohnJaneGalt

    Percival (View Comment):

    Jussie is under the misapprehension that they will play this game by the rules.

    • This isn’t a game.
    • They aren’t playing.
    • They will “find” whatever rules they need.

    But that is the issue.  Jussie is a big Democrat donor with many ties to the party as well as being black and gay.  He will get money back and some sort of win out of this.  That is a given.

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  11. OmegaPaladin Moderator
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    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    Jussie is under the misapprehension that they will play this game by the rules.

    • This isn’t a game.
    • They aren’t playing.
    • They will “find” whatever rules they need.

    But that is the issue. Jussie is a big Democrat donor with many ties to the party as well as being black and gay. He will get money back and some sort of win out of this. That is a given.

    If I was this cynical, I would be a terrorist.

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  12. David Carroll Thatcher
    David Carroll
    @DavidCarroll

    To a lawyer, there is nothing surprising about this. It would be surprising if the smallest claims were brought separately as an independent lawsuit. That is not what happened. There being brought as a counterclaim. Whenever a client brings a complaint to a lawyer, one of the first things to be explored is whether there are any counterclaims to be filed. If the counterclaim arises out of the same facts and circumstances, at least under Ohio procedure, it is termed a compulsory counterclaim and must be filed or will be forever lost.

    From the lawyer’s point of view, there was no real downside to filing this counterclaim. From Smollett point of view, it may unwise if Smollett want any future career in the public eye, because of the negative publicity.  I do not have the impression that Jussie Smollett is the brightest bulb.

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