10:05 AM PT — Particular Prosecutor Dan Ok. Webb has issued a press release, saying he is disenchanted with the Illinois Supreme Court docket choice and respectfully disagrees with overturning Jussie Smollett‘s legal conviction. Webb made it clear the courtroom’s choice has nothing to do with JS’ guilt or innocence and he categorically believes Smollett is responsible of perpetrating a hate crime hoax towards town of Chicago.

He additionally identified the courtroom’s ruling had nothing to do together with his 2 years of labor on the case as a result of he was appointed to his particular prosecution function 5 months after Prepare dinner County D.A. Kim Foxx made a plea take care of Smollett. And Webb says it was that plea settlement that led to the “unprecedented” decision initially within the case, which was the driving issue for the Supreme Court docket’s choice as we speak. In different phrases, Webb says he did nothing unsuitable.

9:10 AM PT — Jussie’s legal professional, Nenye Uche, tells TMZ … Jussie is “very pleasantly stunned,” even “ecstatic.” Uche emphasizes the courtroom choice was unanimous.

He factors out within the age of social media, courts must push again and defend the rule of regulation and due course of — watch the video, he has some options about how one can handle that.

A deal’s a deal, and which means Jussie Smollett‘s conviction within the hate crime hoax case is now reversed, and he can’t be tried once more … based on the Illinois Supreme Court docket.

Illinois’ excessive courtroom dominated Thursday that Jussie’s take care of Prepare dinner County prosecutors — after they initially dropped the case towards him — needed to be honored. State’s Legal professional Kim Foxx struck a plea take care of the actor, requiring him to forfeit his $10,000 bond, and do 15 hours of volunteer group service.

The courtroom’s ruling says as a result of Jussie held up his finish of the deal — he really did 18 hours of service — he shouldn’t have been topic to a second prosecution. That is when he was convicted of felony disorderly conduct and despatched to jail, briefly, till he appealed the choice.

He had been sentenced to 30 months’ probation with the primary 150 days to be served in Prepare dinner County Jail. You may recall Jussie made an emotional and defiant exit because the bailiff took him out of the courtroom following his conviction.

In its ruling the Illinois Supreme Court docket mentioned, “In the present day we resolve a query in regards to the State’s accountability to honor the agreements it makes with defendants.” In its choice the courtroom mentioned, merely, “the State is sure by the settlement.”

Nenye Uche tells TMZ, “This was not a prosecution based mostly on info, reasonably it was a vindictive persecution and such a continuing has no place in our legal justice system. In the end, we’re happy that the rule of the regulation was the large winner as we speak.”

Uche thinks the case was swayed by well-liked opinion, however prosecutions needs to be based mostly on info — the general public needed Jussie convicted and was not considering cheap doubts. Uche notes celebs and different well-known folks face an uphill battle in courtroom these days.

It is value noting the Supreme Court docket didn’t weigh in on the deserves of the particular case towards Jussie … and, as an alternative, solely centered on the deal prosecutors struck with him

This case goes all the way in which again to January 2019, when Jussie initially claimed he’d been the sufferer of a hate crime — 2 males shouted “That is MAGA nation” and “Aren’t you that fa***t n***a from ‘Empire’” … as they put a rope round his neck and threw a liquid on him, which he believed to be bleach.

These 2 males turned out to be brothers, Abimbola and Ola Osundairo, who had been pals with Jussie. They informed police Jussie had paid them to stage the entire assault.

The reversal of Jussie’s conviction is harking back to Invoice Cosby‘s case. Bear in mind, he was really doing time in jail when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket reversed his conviction, citing a deal prosecutors had struck to not prosecute him in alternate for him sitting for a deposition within the Andrea Constand case.