By Missy Crane | February 24, 2020

Jussie Smollett is finally facing justice.

Today, he and his entourage returned to court where Jussie will now look his accusers – the Nigeran brothers – in the eye.

Tensions were running high as each group showed up with their respective lawyers. The Nigeran brothers said they’re ready to testify – for either side, but they’re sticking to their story that Jussie plotted the entire thing.

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Jussie was surrounded by friends and family as he made his way to court, but he looked distressed. You could see the “bravado” he displayed in the early days of this hoax was gone.

Now, he’s facing the two men who flipped on him. It’s his word against theirs and he doesn’t look so confident.

Here he is arm-in-arm with his sister as he makes his way into the courthouse.

Jussie Smollett returned to court in Chicago on Monday to be arraigned on felony charges alleging that he lied to police over a ‘hoax’ attack he was accused of making up last January.

Smollett, 37, is expected to plead not guilty to the six counts of felony disorderly conduct during Monday’s hearing.

Moments after he arrived, Abel and Ola Osundairo – the two Nigerian brothers who say he paid them to attack him – showed up at the courthouse with their attorney.

She told DailyMail.com last week that the pair were prepared to testify for either side in the case and that they want Smollett to ‘tell the truth’.

Last March, Smollett pleaded not guilty to 16 counts of the charge in the same courthouse last year, just weeks before the Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office abruptly announced it was dismissing the case, angering police and City Hall.

Special Prosecutor Dan Webb, a former U.S. attorney who was appointed to examine the state’s attorney’s office’s handling of the case, is expected to attend. Foxx’s office is not involved in the new case against Smollett.

Smollett, who has denied police allegations that he staged the attack to get attention and further his career, will first appear before Chief Judge LeRoy Martin Jr., who will tell him which judge will be assigned to preside over the case. [Daily Mail]

The smug swagger that Jussie had when he “beat the charges” is now gone. You can see that he’s deflated and defeated.

And he has reason to worry…The entire city of Chicago is against him.

Just this week, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Jussie had to be prosecuted “to the fullest extent of the law.”

“He needs to face the charges,” she added.

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“He committed a crime, and he needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and we are going to continue to aggressively make him accountable for the wasted police resources that went into investigating what turned out to be a total hoax,” Lightfoot stated.

Jussie is in a mess of trouble…a mess that he created and orchestrated. Nobody deserves jail time more than this clown.

If he really wanted to help himself, he’d come clean. He should admit what he did, serve some time in jail, go to rehab, and then come out “healthy and renewed” and make a comeback.

But Jussie isn’t the brightest bulb in the box, is he? Instead, he’s tripling down on this absurd story that he had nothing to do with the hoax and is a “victim.”

 

 

This piece originally appeared on WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.

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