DECEMBER 23, 2021
Now that the trial of disgraced actor Jussie Smollett has concluded, special prosecutor Dan Webb has released his full report on State's Attorney Kim Foxx's handling of the Jussie Smollett case, and his conclusions are not kind to her office. While Webb did not find any evidence of criminal conduct in Foxx's handling of the case, he did find that her office was guilty of several procedural irregularities and ethical missteps, and that the decision to allow Smollett to enter into an "alternative prosecution" agreement constituted an "abuse of prosecutorial discretion."
Foxx's office came under intense fire for its decision to drop criminal charges against Smollett in March of 2019, in what the office called an "alternative prosecution agreement." The decision was immediately blasted by both Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, who were visibly perturbed that Smollett was being permitted to escape prosecution even while he continued to falsely claim that his
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