The jury in Jussie Smollett’s demo began deliberating Wednesday, soon after a prosecutor explained there is “overwhelming evidence” that the former “Empire” actor lied to law enforcement about getting the sufferer of an anti-homosexual, racist attack and his defense lawyer mentioned the fees are based mostly on lies.

The deliberations commenced following a approximately one-week demo in which two brothers testified that Smollett recruited them to pretend the assault in the vicinity of his household in downtown Chicago in January 2019. They stated Smollett, who is Black and gay, orchestrated the hoax, telling them to put a noose around his neck, yell racist and homophobic slurs and tough him up in check out of a surveillance digicam, and that he mentioned he needed video clip of the hoax made general public via social media.