Extortion Charge Dropped Against Kevin Hart's Best Friend Over Sex Tape

The felony extortion charge against Kevin Hart's best friend, J.T. Jackson, have been officially dropped.

In a shocking turn of events, the Los Angeles District Attorney filed documents Friday, explaining that prosecutor's did not have evidence to convict the part time actor with the criminal charge.

In their filing, the DA states that upon reviewing the evidence it did not fit the bill for extortion.

The DA claims they investigated a "declaration" or tip that called into question the statement given to them as the extortionist threat to Kevin Hart.

The threat, "Give me $5 Million or I'm releasing the video," was posted into in the public comments on Kevin's Hart Instagram post apologizing to his family for his infidelities, so it did not count as a direct message to Hart.

The DA says after reviewing "thousands of public comments made to Mr. Hart's Instagram post," realized the threat was actually one of the comments.

Prosecutors corroborated the new evidence with a "declaration," and found that it "materially undermines the People's theory on Count One [extortion,] which requires proof of specific intent."

Jackson's high-powered attorney, Jacob Glucksman has been arguing his client did not extort Kevin Hart since the onset of the case.

According to our sources close to Jackson's legal team, they put the blame squarely on Kevin.

Jackson's legal team blames an aggressive DA's office who they believe saw a major celebrity case and ran with it, even though the evidence didn't show any crime was committed.

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