Jussie Smollett attorneys cannot call prosecutor to testify

CHICAGO (AP) — A justice has ruled that Jussie Smollett's attorneys cannot telephone arsenic a witnesser the Chicago authoritative whose bureau dropped archetypal charges accusing the histrion of staging a racist, anti-gay onslaught connected himself successful 2019.

Cook County Judge James Linn besides said Thursday that Smollett's attorneys could not notation assorted lawsuits linked to his case.

But Linn said they could archer jurors astir an AR-15 and different guns that were discovered aft constabulary searched the location of 2 brothers whom prosecutors said Smollett hired and paid to transportation retired the attack.

The Chicago Tribune reports that the justice noted that the AR-15 was legally owned and has since been returned to its owner.

Smollett was charged past February for allegedly lying to Chicago constabulary astir being the unfortunate of a racist and homophobic onslaught past year.

His archetypal charges were dropped by the region prosecutor's bureau soon aft his alleged onslaught successful January 2019 successful Chicago.

In June 2019, the bid creator of "Empire" announced that Smollett would not instrumentality to the deed bid for its last season.

Smollett has denied the allegations and has pleaded not guilty, the Associated Press reported.