The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in one of Chicago’s most closely followed low-level felony cases when attorneys for Jussie Smollett appeared before the state’s highest court in Springfield seeking to overturn his convictions nearly three years after he was convicted of staging a fake hate crime.

Smollett also argued his legal team was improperly denied access to the government’s interviews of the prosecution’s star witnesses – the two brothers he’d allegedly paid to perpetrate the attack – and that he was improperly ordered to pay for police overtime as restitution.

Nearly 20 court cases from outside Montana recognize “executive privilege,” a right for the governor to guard certain pieces of information as confidential, and Montana needs to do the same, argued a lawyer for the state last week to the Montana Supreme Court.