𝗦𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗞𝗶𝗺 𝗙𝗼𝘅𝘅 𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 '𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹' 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝗶𝘁
The State's Attorney who insisted that Jussie Smollett received no special treatment scrambled to find examples of other cases to justify the decision a day after it was made.
Kim Foxx, the embattled Cook County State's Attorney who recused herself from the Smollett case in February after exchanging text messages with one of his relatives but never appointed a special prosecutor, stood by her office's decision to let Smollett walk free from court on Tuesday without admitting guilt.
In a series of interviews on Wednesday, she said that what had been agreed between his team and hers was what is known as 'alternative prosecution' whereby a defendant agrees to a certain set of term and has the case dropped in exchange.
Foxx dismissed the public outcry around it and said only the people 'in the weeds' of the justice system would understand that it was actually commonplace and had happened thousands of times before.
There was no such explanation for it on Tuesday, when she stayed quiet and put Joseph Magats, her assistant who ultimately signed off on the decision, in front of cameras to try to address the many questions surrounding the case.
But Wednesday, Foxx sent an email to staff asking for them to come up with examples to prove her story.
[quote] "We are looking for examples, felony preferable, where we, in exercising our discretion have entered into verbal agreements with defense attorneys to dismiss charges against an offender if certain conditions were met, such as the payment of restitution, completion of community service, completion of class, etc... but the defendant was not placed in a formal diversion program.
[quote] 'Please ask your AAs if they have examples of these types of dispositions and we will work with them further to figure out on what case it was done.
It was leaked on Wednesday to multiple news outlets after Foxx gave a series of interviews defending her conduct.
In none did she explain why she tried to convince the Chicago Police Superintendent to hand the case over to the FBI at the request of Smollett's family and their friend, former Obama aide Tina Tchen.
