The big question when Jussie Smollett’s trial resumes Monday will be whether the actor takes the stand. Two brothers spent hours last week telling a jury how Smollett paid them to carry out a fake racist and anti-gay attack on himself in Chicago.
Attorneys rarely announce whether their clients will take the stand before they actually call them to testify, and Smollett’s attorneys have not made their plans public.
The reasons why Smollett might want to testify begin with just how bizarre the case is. During the trial that started Nov. 29, what emerged was the story of a television star who , gave them dialogue to recite, and paid for the rope he told them to fashion into a noose and loop around his neck.As strange as that sounds, it is the only narrative that has come to the jury from the siblings, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo. And some legal experts say the only chance Smollett has of beating charges that he lied to the police is by telling jurors his version of
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