And now we know that Foxx and Cook County had already arrived at the decision to drop charges based upon alternative reasons, and then had to send out emails to staff to drum up any other cases when something as inexplicable as this was done, so they could use it to backfill their bogus reason why they're dropping the charges.
The Cook County State’s Attorney has circulated an email asking prosecutors in the office to come up with other examples where they just dropped felony charges the way they did in the Jussie Smollett case … this, as Jussie was making a hasty retreat out of Chi-Town via O’Hare International Airport.
According to the memo, obtained by the CBS affiliate in Chicago, the brass wrote, “We are looking for examples of cases, 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
FYI- of the 11 recent cases of filing a false police report in Chicago, 7 resulted in felony convictions, 3 are ongoing, and the 11th was an 18 year old who received 30 hours of community service.