Prosecutor Welcomes Outside Review of How Her Office Handled Jussie Smollett Case

Actor Jussie Smollett (R), listens as his attorney, Patricia Brown Holmes, speaks to reporters at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse after prosecutors dropped all charges against him, on March 26, 2019. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times/Chicago Sun-Times via AP

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx now indicates uncertainty about the strength of evidence and testimony that underpinned charges against Jussie Smollett, and she welcomes an outside review of how her office handled the case, she wrote on March 29 in The Chicago Tribune.