DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2019 10:55 am
chiknbut wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:08 pm
DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 12:24 pm
All charges dropped. CPD reportedly furious with Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx.
"The stunning decision to drop the 16 counts of disorderly conduct was presumably made without the input of State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who recused herself from the case last month after revealing she’d had contact with Smollett’s representatives early on in the investigation.
Foxx declined to provide details at the time. Communications later released to the Tribune, however, showed Foxx had asked Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson to turn over the investigation to the FBI after she was approached by a politically connected lawyer about the case."
Yikes.
Allow me a second here:
Smollet is a scumbag for what he appears to have done.
Let's assume there was no hate crime. So the punishable activity was in submitting false information to the police.
Serious question - how often does this happen in a city the size of Chicago during the course of a year? I'm guessing dozens of times.
And how many of those get prosecuted? Given the volume of cases in Cook County, I would guess less than a handful.
The only reason this case is any different from any other in this city is because of the celebrity angle. And because of this celebrity, this caused an increased amount of attention on a case that would have, most likely, been dismissed.
So this case was dismissed.
Is the decision of the State's Attorney wrong? I'm no Kim Foxx fan. But this case, which cost the City a lot of money, is not worth all this attention.