Federal prosecutors filed a short on Thursday (February 20) stating that the decide made a mistake in Julie Chrisley‘s resentencing in September.
The error pertains to the courtroom including two years to Julie’s supervised launch, which prosecutors say was a “plain error.” Julie and her husband, Todd Chrisley, have been convicted of financial institution and tax fraud in 2022 and sentenced to a mixed 19 years in federal jail.
Final yr, the couple appealed their sentences; Todd’s request was denied, whereas Julie was granted a resentencing listening to. Nevertheless, in September 2024, the decide upheld Julie’s authentic 84-month sentence at FMC Lexington. As well as, Julie was sentenced to 2 extra years of supervised launch.
“The five-year time period of supervised launch on counts 7 and 12 is obvious error as a result of it exceeds the utmost time period licensed by statute,” prosecutors wrote within the submitting, per WSBTV. “In such conditions, this Court docket vacates the district courtroom’s judgment solely with respect to the supervised launch time period and remands with directions to right that situation.”
Rely 7 was for wire fraud, whereas Rely 12 was for obstruction of justice.
Prosecutors stated they missed the change on the time, and neither facet objected to it throughout September’s listening to. Nevertheless, prosecutors at the moment are asking the appeals courtroom to ship the case again to the district courtroom to resentence Julie to the identical phrases however with a 5 years supervised launch.
This doesn’t imply Julie could have any time knocked off her jail sentence, as she continues to be anticipated to serve the complete 84 months she was initially sentenced to.
Julie and Todd’s daughter, Savannah Chrisley, has been campaigning for his or her launch and is hoping President Donald Trump will pardon them. She lately appeared on the 2025 Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC) as a Senior Fellow for the Nolan Heart for Legal Justice.
“To face amongst these combating for actual reform and freedom, to be a voice on this motion, jogs my memory why I refuse to cease talking out. The combat for justice is way from over,” she wrote on Instagram.
“I’ll by no means cease combating for my dad and mom. I’ll by no means cease combating for the thousands and thousands of others crushed by the Division of Injustice. We won’t be silenced,” she added.