Savannah Chrisley claims that the judge who maintained the sentence of 84 months that her mother, Julie Chrisley, was given was acting in retaliation.
During the episode of her podcast, Unlocked, which aired on Tuesday, October 1, Savannah, who is 27 years old, discussed the latest verdict that was granted about her mother’s extended jail term.
Savannah said, “I have no doubt in my mind that anything that this judge has done, including everything that she has done, has been done in retaliation.” “It has been in retaliation for us exercising our right to an appeal and being granted in part a successful appeal,” the statement reads.
When Julie, who is 51 years old, was resentenced on September 25th, she was given the same 84 months of jail time that she had previously received. During the hearing that took place in the downtown area of Atlanta at the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Julie appeared before Judge Eleanor L. Ross and expressed her regret for the activities that she had taken. Savannah Chrisley and her brother Chase Chrisley were present during the event.
For the crimes of fraud and tax evasion, Julie Chrisley was given a sentence of seven years in jail in November 2022, while her husband, Todd Chrisley, who was 55 at the time, was given a term of twelve years. During the next month, they started the procedure of appealing the decision, and in January of 2023, they reported to their respective jails.
More than a year later, in an April 2024 appeal hearing, a judge granted Julie’s appeal and vacated her seven-year sentence in June due to insufficient evidence. Todd’s sentence, on the other hand, was maintained. Julie was given a new term the week before last after Ross decided that the penalty she had received before was enough.
Throughout the course of her podcast, Savannah continued to demonstrate her dissatisfaction with the decision. According to what she had to say, “The judge demonstrated that this was more than just us exercising our fundamental right to appeal.” The reason for this was that she did not like how vocal I am.
Savannah said that the judge was “indirectly reprimanding [her] in the courtroom during a sentencing hearing that was not [Savannah’s] sentencing hearing.” She went on to say that after the hearing, she felt as like she had been punched in the belly. mostly due to the fact that the idea that I had done anything that had a negative impact on my mother’s capacity to be a free woman was really painful.
The accusation that Savannah made was that “that was her way of telling me, ‘You better shut up because it’s only going to get worse for you,'” so she said.
Savannah gave the following statement: “At this point, I have nothing else to lose.” She said that she will continue to speak out. In the room is my mother. In that room is my father. When it comes to this point, what do I have to lose? There is nothing for me to lose, and I have everything to gain.
In a video that was acquired by Entertainment Tonight, Savannah and Chase were seen participating in a news conference with their family’s attorney, Alex Little, after the decision that was handed down on September 25. She said that the decision “is one hundred percent [an] injustice” in the document.
According to her explanation, “What has transpired is an injustice.” “I will persistently fight for the rights of my parents. I will be as vocal as I possibly can be because the judge made it quite obvious today that she was use my outspokenness to bring about a change in a system that is so flawed.