8 Dec 2021

Two major court cases playing out in US

From Morning Report, 7:52 am on 8 December 2021

The US is currently seeing two high profile court cases play out. Ghislaine Maxwell is accused of grooming teenage girls for abuse by the late convicted sex offender and financier.

She has pleaded not guilty to all charges against her.

At the same time Former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett took the stand in his criminal trial this week, denying that he staged a fake hate crime and lied to Chicago Police about it in January 2019.

Correspondent Nick Harper spoke to Corin Dann.