Jussie Smollett plans to appeal, ‘100 percent confident’ guilty verdict will be overturned: lawyer

Lead attorney for the defense team Nenye Uche told the press on Thursday after Smollett's guilty verdict that they're already planning to appeal the case.

"We feel 100 percent confident that this case will be won on appeal," the Smollett attorney said to the media. "Unfortunately, that's not the route we wanted but sometimes that's the route you have to take to win, especially a case where we remain 100 percent confident in our client's innocence."

Smollett was found guilty Thursday on five of six felony charges of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report.

"The verdict is inconsistent," Uche declared. "You cannot say Jussie is lying and say Jussie is not lying for the same exact incident."

Uche said that the legal defendant is "confident" in the appellate system.

"We are confident in our Illinois Supreme Court, and we're confident that at the end of the day, what's out there in the news media and in the gossip forums are not going to stand a chance in court," Uche told reporters.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki was grilled during Friday's press conference on previous social media comments by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris who both fell for Smollett's political stunt.

"There are lessons learned, perhaps, for everybody who commented at the time," Psaki told reporters Friday at the White House press briefing.