In Springfield Tuesday, the attorney for former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett asked justices to reverse his client’s 2021 ...

Jussie Smollett's appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday raised a legal question about double jeopardy.

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in one of Chicago’s most closely followed low-level felony cases when attorneys for Jussie Smollett appeared before the state’s highest court in ...

During the actor's trial, special prosecutors accused Smollett of staging the attack for publicity because he was unhappy ...

Smollett’s attorney, Nenye Uche, argued that a previous agreement with the State's Attorney’s office should have kept a trial from happening in the first place. Uche told justices that ...

It is rare to get the Illinois Supreme Court to hear an appeal. Smollett’s attorney Nenye Uche argument before the justices in Springfield focused on the agreement Smollett had with Cook County ...

In December the Appellate Court of Illinois agreed and voted 2-1 to uphold Smollett’s conviction. The court ruled despite the ...

“Prosecutorial agreements that induce a defendant’s specific performance should be enforced irrespective of how unpopular a defendant is in the public eye,” Smollett’s attorney Nenye Uche ...

Smollett’s lawyers argue his case should never have gone to trial because the actor had already entered into a binding ...