NN host Don Lemon said Wednesday it wasn't "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett's fault that he had already lost in the "court of public opinion" for his handling of the weeks since he claimed he was attacked in a hate crime.
Rather, Lemon said, after he and his panel assessed the legal troubles Smollett is in following his arrest for disorderly conduct in filing a false police report, it seemed the actor had gotten poor advice.
"In the court of public opinion, Jussie has lost," Lemon said. "He's lost the fight in the court of public opinion, and that's where his battle is. Legally … if it's jail time, if he has to do probation, if he has to pay whatever, but in the court of public opinion—"
"It matters," CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson said.
"It matters," Lemon said. "And he lost that because of how—and not his fault—but maybe people were, I don't know what they were saying to him, maybe because of his representatives, who knows? But it was handled poorly."
"I don't know if it's not his fault, Don," Jackson said. "He went out and he gave the interview."
https://freebeacon.com/politics/lem...-has-already-lost-in-court-of-public-opinion/
