Defense attorney names ‘real victim’ in Jussie Smollett case as trial begins
Jussie Smollett’s defense attorney insisted that his client was the victim of a real attack as his trial opened in Chicago. Smollett could be sent to prison if found guilty of staging a fake hate crime.
Smollett’s attorney, Nenye Uche, rejected accusations that Smollett had masterminded a fake racist attack against himself in January 2019, claiming the actor was innocent and “a real victim” as the trial kicked off in Chicago, Illinois on Monday.
Uche argued that Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo – two Nigerian brothers who told Chicago Police they had been paid by Smollett to attack him – actually hated Smollett “because of who he is as a person” and were “sophisticated, highly intelligent criminals.”
