Jurors set to begin second day of deliberations in the trial of actor Jussie Smollett

Smollett took the stand Monday and maintained his innocence in the ordeal, denying he planned the attack with the help of Bola and Ola Osundairo.

Yet prosecutors say that during the investigation, it became apparent to authorities that the reported hate crime was actually a hoax.

The first was withholding cell phone, medical, and DNA evidence from police.

Second, Webb accused Smollett of misleading police on the race of the attackers, saying “he wants police to be looking for someone White.” The Osundairo brothers are Black.

Saying he needed the jury to be his “Constitutional warriors,” Uche urged them not to try and serve as investigators when they deliberate but to simply ask themselves if the prosecution had met its burden of proof.

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