Savannah Chrisley says the judge who upheld her mother Julie Chrisley’s 84-month sentence retaliated.
Savannah, 27, spoke about the recent verdict on her mother’s ongoing prison sentence during the Tuesday, Oct. 1, episode of her podcast. Unlocked.
“I truly believe that this judge, everything she did, was revenge,” Savannah claims. “It was in retaliation for us exercising our right to appeal and we were partially allowed to appeal.”
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On Wednesday, September 25, Julie (51) was again sentenced to the same 84 months in prison as before. During a hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in downtown Atlanta, Julie stood before Judge Eleanor L. Ross and apologized for her actions. Savannah and her brother Chase Chrisley were in attendance.
In November 2022, Julie was sentenced to seven years in prison, while her husband Todd Chrisley, 55, received a 12-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion. They began the appeals process the following month and then reported to their prisons in January 2023.
More than a year later, at an appeals hearing in April 2024, a judge accepted Julie’s appeal and in June overturned her seven-year sentence due to lack of evidence. However, Todd’s sentence was upheld. Last week, Julie was outraged after Ross decided her original punishment was enough.
Julie Chrisley on April 1, 2016 in Westlake Village, California.
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During her podcast, Savannah continued to express her frustrations with the ruling. “The judge showed that this was more than us exercising our right to appeal,” she said. “She didn’t like how open I was.”
The judge “indirectly reprimanded [her] in the courtroom during the sentencing that was not [Savannah’s] sentencing hearing,” Savannah said, adding, “After that hearing, I felt like I was punched in the stomach. Because when I thought that I had done something that hurt my mother’s ability to be a free woman, it hit me hard.”
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“It was her way of telling me, ‘You better shut up because you’re only going to get worse,'” Savannah said.
Savannah said she will continue to speak, saying, “I have nothing else to lose at this point. My mom is in there. My dad is in there. What do I have to lose at this point? I have nothing to lose and everything to gain.”
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Savannah Chrisley event on Tuesday, September 12, 2023 in Hollywood, CA.
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Following the Sept. 25 verdict, Savannah and Chase joined their family’s attorney, Alex Little, during a press conference in a video obtained by Entertainment Tonight. In it, she said that the verdict was “100 percent [an] injustice.”
“What happened was an injustice,” she explained. “I will continue to fight for my parents. And I will be as vocal as I can because the judge made it clear today that she used my outspokenness to change a system that is so broken.”
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