Julie Chrisley.Photo: Broadimage/Shutterstock
Julie Chrisleymay be coming home sooner than expected as she looks towards a potential re-sentencing.
While answering a fan question about the couple’s potential release during their appeal in early March, Little admitted there was a “slim chance” they would be going home after opening arguments but expressed hope they would be granted “bail.”
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The lawyer noted that “Julie is a different situation,” and whether or not the Chrisleys win or lose their appeal, the matriarch can expect to be re-sentenced due to “errors” involving her original sentencing.
“If she is re-sentenced in the summer or the fall of next year, I think her sentence should be substantially reduced,” he added.
Little explained that if Julie were to be awarded a three-year sentence, she could even come home “some time next year.”
“That’s not out of the question,” he said, adding, “And I think the hard part when you talk to clients and talk to families about things like that is, that is an option on a spectrum of options. And so you don’t want to give people false hope. You want to be realistic, that is certainly an option.”
Alex also claimed that the First Step Act would “for sure” apply to Julie and affect her resentencing. The bill, signed into law in 2018, is a criminal justice reform bill that promotes the rehabilitation of convicted individuals and reduces excessive sentences.
“Again, we don’t know whether the judge would actually apply it in a way to reduce her sentence,” he continued. “We think it should if the judge would have followed the guidelines. And that could happen, you know, this year, early next year.”
Julie Chrisley, Savannah Chrisley and Todd Chrisley.Vivian Zink/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty
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In September 2023, PEOPLE confirmed that Todd, 54, and Julie, 51, had already beengranted reduced sentences.
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons' online inmate search system, the Chrisley family patriarch will now leave the Federal Prison Camp Pensacola on Jan. 22, 2033, which is nearly two years before his original 12-year sentence was meant to conclude.
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The couple wereindictedin August 2019 for12 counts of bank and wire fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy, all of whichthey have denied. The couple wascleared of their state tax evasion chargein Georgia in October 2019 but continued to face federal charges for allegedly evading federal taxes.
source: people.com
