The only black juror in the Jussie Smollet trial says the actor's testimony made no sense and he couldn't figure out why Smollett would put back on the noose that his alleged attackers placed around his neck.
Andre Hope, 63, said: 'As an African American person, I'm not putting that noose back on at all.'
Last week, Smollett was convicted on five counts of felony disorderly conduct for staging a racist and homophobic hate crime on himself in January 2019. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
The actor, known for his role in Fox's musical drama Empire, paid two Nigerian brothers $3,500 to attack him and later claimed that they were actually two white men who shouted, 'this is MAGA country n*****,' in reference to Donald Trump's Make America Great Again slogan, as they brutalized him.