(CNN) Had Jussie Smollett's case gone to trial, it's unlikely that any of the results would have included time in prison for the "Empire" actor, the top prosecutor in Chicago said Wednesday.

State's Attorney for Cook County Kim Foxx told CNN affiliate WLS on Wednesday that even if the celebrity had been found guilty of filing a false police report, the punishment was more than likely going to be what he eventually paid.

"If he's found guilty on a Class 4 (felony) the likelihood was he was going to get some type of, perhaps, restitution, community service, not prison," she said. "And so, if we can get to the same outcomes, if we get to the same measures of justice without going through the court process, we do that."

Prosecutors dropped the 16 charges of filing a false police report on Tuesday, after Smollett agreed to forfeit his $10,000 bond and spent 16 hours doing community service over the weekend.

Tina Glandian, one of Smollett's attorneys, said her client wavered on whether to voluntarily forfeit the bond, but chose to do so because the cost to him would have been far higher if he had to spend the next year of his life preparing for and going through a trial.

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