The Cook County State’s Attorney’s office engaged in “substantial
abuses of discretion and operational failures” in its prosecution of
Jussie Smollett, but prosecutors’ conduct did not rise to the level of
criminal wrongdoing, according to Special Prosecutor Dan K. Webb. In a news release Monday, Webb’s team said prosecutors’ handling of
the hot-button case was riddled with confusing strategies, misleading
public statements and outright falsehoods.
Among them: Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and her team simply ignored a “major legal defect” regarding her recusal from the case. Once they realized that the recusal had been handled improperly, they “seemingly … did not want to admit they had made such a major mistake of judgment,” according to the release............To Read More...
