Lawyer: Smollett 'real victim' of attack

By Don Babwin and Sara Burnett
Updated November 30 2021 - 12:28pm, first published 12:23pm
Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett has been charged with felony disorderly conduct.
Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett has been charged with felony disorderly conduct.

Jussie Smollett "is a real victim" of a "real crime", his lawyer has told the start of the ex-Empire actor's trial, rejecting prosecutors' allegation he staged a homophobic and racist attack in Chicago after the television studio where he worked did not take hate mail he had received seriously.

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