The Sitaution Between Hoaxie Smollett And His Lawyers Is Already Completely Toxic!
You can often tell when attorneys are acting in concert with the feeling of their client.
It’s one of the reasons why when an attorney gets hired by someone that there are some things that the client might not tell them or that the lawyer doesn’t want to know.
The knowledge of some certain things might make it a little bit harder for a lawyer to properly defend a client because if there is no plausible deniability in the eyes of the lawyer at best the might be doing a half heated job.
Almost immediately after the staged attack, Jussie Smollett hired attorneys probably for the storm that he knew was coming. Problem with that, lawyers have no problem removing themselves form a situation that will make them look foolish in a professional setting.
After a grand jury charged Jussie Smollett Wednesday with felonious disorderly conduct for filing a false police report, the lawyer representing the two brothers who say the actor paid them to stage a “racist and homophobic” attack on him had a message for the embattled star.
“I think that Jussie’s conscience is probably not letting him sleep right now, so I think he should unload that conscience and just come out and tell the American people what actually happened,” said Gloria Schmidt, the attorney representing Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, the two brothers who were brought in for questioning last week and have since reportedly provided evidence that they conducted the alleged hoax attack at Smollett’s direction.
Smollett’s legal team quickly responded by vowing to mount “an aggressive defense.”
“Like any other citizen, Mr. Smollett enjoys the presumption of innocence, particularly when there has been an investigation like this one where information, both true and false, has been repeatedly leaked,” they said in a statement Thursday. “Given these circumstances, we intend to conduct a thorough investigation and to mount an aggressive defense.”
Schmidt made her statement just after the Osundairo brothers testified in front of a grand jury “for hours” Thursday, Chicago’s ABC7 reports. Just before 7 p.m. the grand jury charged Smollett with felonious disorderly conduct for filing a false police report, a charge that carries a one- to three-year prison sentence in Illinois.
CBS Chicago reported Wednesday that the brothers were ready to testify a day earlier, but a “last-minute phone call” from the defense temporarily put things on hold. The Osundairo brothers “were waiting outside the grand jury chambers at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday, just minutes from testifying, when the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office got a call from Smollett’s lawyers, claiming they may have new evidence,” CBS reports.