Smollett’s lawyers argue his case should never have gone to trial because the actor had already entered into a binding ...

During the actor's trial, special prosecutors accused Smollett of staging the attack for publicity because he was unhappy ...

Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s attorneys took his case before the Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday. Smollett was ...

The Illinois Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in actor Jussie Smollett’s appeal to overturn his conviction on disorderly ...

The Illinois Supreme Court heard Jussie Smollett's appeal of his disorderly conduct conviction, focusing on double jeopardy ...

Jussie Smollett's appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday raised a legal question about double jeopardy.

An appellate court in Illinois upheld the actor’s conviction ... on whether the judge is likely to incarcerate him. Jussie Smollett, an actor in the Fox music-industry drama “Empire ...

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in one of Chicago’s most closely followed low-level felony cases when ...

Smollett also argued his legal team was improperly denied access to the government’s interviews of the prosecution’s star ...

In Springfield Tuesday, the attorney for former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett asked justices to reverse his client ...

The Illinois Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from actor Jussie Smollett after a ruling upheld his Cook County conviction for lying about an alleged hate crime, court records show.