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What do you think the penalty should be for sending terroristic threats through the mail that disrupts the lives of dozens of people and mandates a very expensive emergency response?
He didn't merely expose himself to crushed ibuprofin ("allegedly"), he exposed everyone in the studio to an unknown (to everyone else) powdered substance for the purpose of instilling fear. Consequently the entire studio had to be evacuated pursuant to a HAZMAT response and the whole block was shut down. It wasn't just a matter of him running to the police to complain about a letter he received, he ("allgedly") disrupted dozens of lives not to mention a high-budget television production for the purpose of intimidation.
I never said it was ok and no big deal. The law sets out the penalties for the crimes Smollett allegedly committed. I believe those penalties are reasonable and rational. I think that many posters on this thread want penalties that aren't reasonable, and I also believe that our legal system is sound. The state attorney's office in Illinois looked at the penalties outlined by the law, and saw a way to achieve those penalties without going to the expense of a trial.
Then you are positing that his family was in on the hoax. Based on what evidence?
The overwhelming evidence that he was guilty! No one who cared about him would want the cops to do a good job.
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