(The Center Square) – Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s attorneys took his case before the Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday.

Smollett was convicted of staging and falsely reporting a hate crime against him in 2019. Smollett, who is Black and gay, said the attackers, wearing red MAGA hats, shouted racist and homophobic slurs at him before putting a noose around his neck. 

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