Jussie Smollett‘s attempt to get his latest charges dropped has been unsuccessful. According to Page Six, lawyers for the former Empire star “argued in an emergency petition that a judge overstepped his authority and misinterpreted the law when he ordered the appointment of a special prosecutor.”
But on Friday the Illinois Supreme Court refused to throw out the charges, which again accuse the actor of faking a racist and homophobic attack against himself. Meanwhile, Chicago’s State Attorney Kim Foxx, who dropped the initial case against Smollett last year, called the allegedly bogus hate crime a “low-level offense” and a “prank.”
