CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MARCH 16: Former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett (light mask) is released from the Cook County Department of Corrections detention center on March 16, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Smollett began serving a 150-day sentence on March 10, after being found guilty late last year of lying to police about a hate crime after he reported to police that two masked men physically attacked him, yelling racist and anti-gay remarks near his Chicago home in 2019. Today an appellate court judge ordered him freed while his case is appealed. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
