![]() “How would the brothers ever know where Smollett was going to be right at 2 a.m.?” Webb said. Webb questioned how Smollett expected jurors to believe that the Osundairos would know exactly where and when Smollett would be leaving his home on a frigid morning of the January 2019 incident. ![]() ![]() Smollett went on that witness stand, took and oath to tell the truth, and made many, many false statements to you,” the special prosecutor said. Webb said the actor’s explanations were so unbelievable, they “lacked any credibility whatsoever.” Refusing to turn over his cellphone to police, then offering up only heavily redacted call records, was not an attempt to conceal his communications with Abimbola Osundairo, it was simply a celebrity guarding his privacy, Smollett said. In sometimes testy exchanges during cross-examination, Smollett, 39, had answers that were either mundane or profound while explaining his actions in the days before the alleged attack and the weeks that followed.Ĭircling the area where the incident would take place with the Osundairos in his SUV was not rehearsal for the attack, it was the actor’s habit to drive aimlessly while smoking weed with friends. In stitching together an otherwise circumstantial case, jurors will have to weigh whether to believe Smollett, who spent eight hours on the stand this week, over his alleged accomplices.
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