Source: Crazy Days and Nights

This disgraced actor who can’t get work because of his fake story and subsequent doubling down of awful ideas is trying to leak stories to the press beneficial to his interests.

Even if the actor did win his case, which is unlikely, no one is ever going to hire him again.

Period.

Jussie Smollett

Jussie Smollett lawyers say recording mistake, which captured witness talking to attorney, points to conspiracy

Chicago police investigating the Jussie Smollett case apparently inadvertently taped 37 seconds of a private conversation between a key witness and his lawyer last year — a tape that has since made it into the hands of Smollett’s defense team, which says it helps prove the actor’s innocence.

The video of conversation between Olabinjo Osundairo and his attorney, Gloria Schmidt Rodriguez, was given to special prosecutors, who unwittingly turned it over to defense attorneys as part of a routine exchange of potential evidence.

When they realized they had done so, prosecutors asked the defense attorneys to confirm that they would not view it or use it, given that conversations between lawyers and their clients are confidential, attorney Sean Wieber said in court Friday.

But Smollett’s attorneys believe the tape shows what they have long argued: that Osundairo and his brother, who are the suspects-turned-witnesses at the heart of the case, were coached on a phony story to frame Smollett as a way to escape being charged themselves.

“We believe it’s evidence of them conspiring to come up with a story,” defense attorney Tina Glandian said in court Friday. “It is a significant statement that we would like to introduce into evidence.”

Judge James Linn, who is presiding over the case, hinted strongly that the tape would not ever be made public, saying “this is clear cut attorney-client privilege.”

“Somebody forgot to turn off the tape at the police station,” Linn said. “The lawyers are trying to use this now, and I’m not sure it will be available.”

But before rendering a formal decision, Linn requested to see the video in his chambers to determine whether the defense could use it.

The revelation came at a routine pretrial hearing in the former “Empire” actor’s second criminal case, which was charged in February by a special prosecutor after the initial case was abruptly dropped. – Source


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