The_Walrus wrote:
Funny - after Mr Smollett spent weeks being hounded by so many people for allegedly "faking accusations", it turns out that the accusation that he was faking accusations was itself a fake accusation.
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The Cook County State's Attorney's Office didn't immediately explain why the 16 counts of felony disorderly conduct were dropped against Smollett today, except to say it came after reviewing the case's facts, and in view of Smollett's agreement to forfeit his $10,000 bond. Parts of the case will be sealed, one of Smollett's attorneys said.
Funny, nowhere in any news accounts have I read anything indicating that the charges against Mr. Smollet were fake.
He probably cut a deal to avoid embarrassing both himself and the prosecutors -- one of whom was forced to recuse herself from the case "... to address potential questions of impartiality based upon familiarity with potential witnesses in the case".
So it was not settled due to truthfulness or falsehood, but because one of the prosecutors was "familiar" with one of the witnesses. What that "familiarity" may entail, we may never know.