CHICAGO — In a scathing ruling that was to send Jussie Smollett to jail for the first few months of his probation sentence, Cook County Judge James Linn last week told the convicted actor that “sometimes the hammer of justice has to fall.” Less than a week later, an Illinois appellate court lifted Linn’s hammer back up — at least partially. Smollett walked out of custody Wednesday evening after two appeals court judges agreed his 150-day jail sentence should be put on hold while his appeal is pending. That decision, however, applied only to Smollett’s jail sentence, which Linn had ordered woul…