State Bar Association Unloads On Crooked Prosecutor Who Dropped Charges Against Jussie Smollett

The crooked Cook County prosecutor who dropped charges against the celebrity perpetrator of a hate crime hoax continues to come under fire.

Hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett may have gotten off scot-free but the shady prosecutor who engineered the dismissal of over a dozen felony counts against the actor has come under increasing fire for her role in the case.

The shocking news that the star of Fox’s television series Empire had all charges dropped against him earlier this week resulted in outrage from the Chicago police who meticulously investigated the incident and determined that the actor was lying.

It even managed to draw condemnation from Mayor Rahm Emanuel who decried how Kim Foxx’s office undermined the police and did a disservice to victims of real hate crimes although he was soon back on script and blaming it on President Trump.

Especially disturbing is how the politically-connected Foxx lied to the public that she had recused herself from the matter: she didn’t. Foxx also denied that she had ordered the case to be sealed which would have done away with any pesky evidence of malfeasance.

With efforts by Smollett’s defenders to paint that actor and activist as a victim of persecution by the police and media ongoing, Foxx and her office continue to face criticism and now the state’s top prosecutorial bar association has issued a scathing statement that the crooked prosecutor misled the public.

Via The Daily Wire “Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association: State’s Attorney ‘Fundamentally Misled’ Public About Dismissing Smollett Case”:

In a blistering condemnation of the dismissal of all 16 felony charges against “Empire” star Jussie Smollett, the Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association (IPBA) has accused State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and her office of having “fundamentally misled” the public about the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of the case.

The backlash against the decision Tuesday by Foxx’s office to suddenly drop all charges in the high-profile “hoax hate crime” case continues to mount. On Wednesday, the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), which represents prosecutors across the country, released a statement detailing what Foxx’s office did wrong. On Thursday, the IPBA, which “serves as the voice for nearly 1,000 front line prosecutors across the state,” issued its own, even more directly accusatory statement.

According to the statement:

The appearance of impropriety here is compounded by the fact that this case was not on the regularly scheduled court call, the public had no reasonable notice or opportunity to view these proceedings, and the dismissal was done abruptly at what has been called an “emergency” hearing. To date, the nature of the purported emergency has not been publicly disclosed. The sealing of a court case immediately following a hearing where there was no reasonable notice or opportunity for the public to attend is a matter of grave public concern and undermines the very foundation of our public court system.

Lastly, the State’s Attorney has claimed this arrangement is “available to all defendants” and “not a new or unusual practice.” There has even been an implication it was done in accordance with a statutory diversion program. These statements are plainly misleading and inaccurate. This action was highly unusual, not a statutory diversion program, and not in accordance with well accepted practices of State’s Attorney initiated diversionary programs. The IPBA supports diversion programs, and recognizes the many benefits they provide to the community, the defendant and to the prosecuting agency. Central to any diversion program, however, is that the defendant must accept responsibility. To be clear here, this simply was not a deferred prosecution.

Prosecutors must be held to the highest standard of legal ethics in the pursuit of justice. The actions of the Cook County State’s Attorney have fallen woefully short of this expectation. Through the repeated misleading and deceptive statements to the public on Illinois law and circumstances surrounding the Smollett dismissal, the State’s Attorney has failed in her most fundamental ethical obligations to the public. The IPBA condemns these actions.

The entire case has the stench of political corruption of the type that Chicago has been famous for even before Foxx, Emmanuel and the Obamas.

There is also Foxx’s support of Democrat Kamala Harris, the identity politics demagogue who was quick to rush to judgment by calling Smollett’s hoax a “modern-day lynching” and then moving to grandstand by pushing through a cynical anti-lynching bill in the Senate.

Foxx will surely survive the firestorm that she has created and so will Smollett and that really says a good deal about who really has privilege in America.