Galloism wrote:Ifreann wrote:How do you get sixteen felony charges out of one crime?
Looks like they charged him once for each lie.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/03/08 ... ndictment/The indictment expands the case against the actor. The counts focus on allegedly false statements he made to two different Chicago Police officers. Each count covers various alleged acts that Smollett falsely described to the officers–including that he was hit by two men, that they yelled racial and homophobic slurs and poured a chemical on him.
That does seem a bit suspicious and over the top to charge a person with each element of a lie in telling an overall false story. But I'm not familiar with the law in this regard.
It's quite a simple area, each part of the statement which potentially was a criminal act is treated separately. Thus, the bleach and the physical blows are two separate cases of assault, and thus when reported they amount to two separate false statements.