Savannah Chrisley says the decide who upheld her mom Julie Chrisley‘s 84-month sentence was retaliating.
Savannah, 27, opened up in regards to the latest ruling on her mom’s ongoing jail sentence throughout the Tuesday, Oct. 1, episode of her podcast, Unlocked.
“I actually do consider that this decide, all the pieces that she has performed has been in retaliation,” Savannah claimed. “It has been in retaliation for us exercising our proper to an attraction and being granted partly a profitable attraction.”
On Wednesday, Sept. 25, Julie, 51, was resentenced to the same 84 months of prison she previously received. Through the listening to on the U.S. District Court docket for the Northern District of Georgia in downtown Atlanta, Julie stood earlier than Choose Eleanor L. Ross and apologized for her actions. Savannah and her brother Chase Chrisley have been in attendance.
In November 2022, Julie was sentenced to seven years in prison, whereas her husband, Todd Chrisley, 55, obtained a 12-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion. The subsequent month, they started the attraction course of after which reported to their respective prisons in January 2023.
Greater than a 12 months later, in an April 2024 attraction listening to, a decide granted Julie’s appeal and vacated her seven-year sentence in June resulting from inadequate proof. Nonetheless, Todd’s sentence was upheld. Final week, Julie was resentenced, after Ross dominated that her authentic punishment was ample.
Savannah continued to specific her frustrations with the ruling throughout her podcast. “The decide confirmed that this was extra than simply us exercising our proper to an attraction,” she mentioned. “This was her not liking how outspoken I’m.”
The decide was “not directly reprimanding [her] within the courtroom throughout a sentencing listening to that was not [Savannah’s] sentencing listening to,” Savannah mentioned, including, “After that listening to the place, it felt prefer it was a punch within the intestine. As a result of to assume that I did one thing that harmed my mom’s skill to be a free lady that one stung actually unhealthy.”
“That was her method of telling me, ‘You higher shut up as a result of it is solely going to worsen for you,’ ” Savannah alleged.
Savannah mentioned she would proceed to talk out, saying, “At this level, I’ve nothing else to lose. My mother’s in there. My dad’s in there. What do I’ve to lose at this level? I’ve nothing to lose and all the pieces to realize.”
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After the Sept. 25 ruling, Savannah and Chase joined their household’s legal professional, Alex Little, throughout a press convention in a video obtained by Entertainment Tonight. In it, she mentioned the ruling “is one hundred pc [an] injustice.”
“What has happened is an injustice,” she defined. “I’ll proceed to battle for my dad and mom. And I might be as loud as I can probably be as a result of the decide clearly confirmed in the present day that she was utilizing my outspokenness to alter a system that’s so damaged.”