Todd & Julie Chrisley: Why They Received 12 & 7 Year Prison Sentences for Tax Fraud, Attorney Explains (Exclusive Interview)

Todd Chrisley, 53, is getting prepared to service 12 years successful national situation aft being convicted of taxation fraud, ligament fraud, and taxation evasion, portion his Chrisley Know Best world prima wife, Julie, 49, has been sentenced to service lone 7 years down bars. After being delivered their sentences successful a national tribunal successful Georgia connected Nov. 13, lawyers for the proud parents of Lindsie, 33, Kyle, 31, Savannah, 25, Chase, 26, Grayson, 16, and adopted daughter, Chloe, 10, person stated that they mean to appeal.

Todd and Julie Chrisley looked stunning astatine the 52nd ACM Awards successful Las Vegas, Nevada, connected April 2, 2017. (Shutterstock)

Although their situation determination and whether they volition get to service staggered sentences is inactive unknown, Todd and Julie are reportedly acceptable to statesman their combined 19-year jailhouse term connected Jan. 15, 2023, according to FoxNews5 successful Atlanta, Georgia. So, what happens if they appeal? Will they inactive person to participate prison, oregon volition they get to stay escaped until the entreaty process is complete? Why has Todd gotten sentenced to 5 much years than his woman if they were some convicted of acting unneurotic successful their $30 cardinal taxation fraud scheme? HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY to Los Angeles-based lawyer Alphonse Provinziano of Provinziano & Associates who answered each of these questions, and more.

Todd and Julie Chrisley were affectionate connected the reddish carpet astatine the NBC Summer 2014 TCA, which took spot successful Beverly Hills, California. (Shutterstock)

Read beneath to find retired what helium had to say.

HollywoodLife: Why did Todd and Julie get specified dense sentences?

Attorney Provinziano: Federal judges mostly contented their sentences based connected the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which chiefly see the severity of the transgression behaviour and the defendant’s transgression history. According to the sentencing guidelines, the Chrisleys could person faced adjacent much clip successful situation if the justice had chosen to condemnation them connected the higher extremity of the guidelines.

HollywoodLife: Why was Julie sentenced to 7 years little than Todd?

Attorney Provinziano: Sentencing takes into relationship assorted factors, including who the superior offender was. It seems that Todd’s engagement successful the couple’s fiscal activities indispensable person been much profound than Julie’s. Not lone was Todd’s condemnation longer, but the recommendations of some the prosecution and the defendant’s lawyers would person had Todd serving a longer condemnation if they were adopted by the judge.

HollywoodLife: What was the maximum condemnation that they could person received?

Attorney Provinziano: In a sentencing memo, prosecutors said Todd could service much than 21 years successful situation and Julie could service much than 12 years based connected sentencing guidelines. Of course, the justice has immoderate discretion successful ordering a condemnation either greater oregon lesser (as she yet did) than the higher extremity of the sentencing guidelines.

HollywoodLife: Did the information that they did not instrumentality accountability person an interaction connected their sentence?

Attorney Provinziano: It would beryllium emblematic for a justice to see factors specified arsenic whether a suspect demonstrated accountability oregon remorse for their actions. If they did not then, yes, past that whitethorn person precise good travel into play.

HollywoodLife: Will they person to service their afloat sentences? If not, what is the minimum?

Attorney Provinziano: They whitethorn not person to service their full sentence, due to the fact that national instrumentality allows for a simplification successful a prisoner’s condemnation for bully behavior. But based connected existent national instrumentality and Bureau of Prisons regulations, they volition inactive person to service a minimum of astir 85 percent of their sentence.

HollywoodLife: Can you picture what volition hap if they appeal? What are the chances of this being overturned?

Attorney Provinziano: Most appeals are unsuccessful, and determination is simply a comparatively precocious modular to triumph connected an entreaty successful a transgression case. Some imaginable grounds for entreaty see ineligible error, juror misconduct, and ineffective assistance of counsel. It does look that the prosecution successful this lawsuit presented important grounds to enactment the transgression conviction, truthful I would accidental that determination is simply a reasonably debased accidental of the determination being overturned.

HollywoodLife: Will they inactive person to spell to situation connected the aforesaid day if they bash appeal?

Attorney Provinziano: In immoderate cases, a national justice could let a suspect to station bail and stay retired of situation portion their entreaty is pending. Generally, the justice volition see whether the suspect is simply a information oregon a formation hazard and what the chances are that the entreaty volition beryllium successful.

HollywoodLife: Do you deliberation they volition service staggered sentences?

Attorney Provinziano: A tribunal is allowed to connection leniency erstwhile sentencing and the judge, successful this case, whitethorn oregon whitethorn not person considered the information that Todd and Julie person children to attraction for. In immoderate cases, a justice volition let co-defendants with children to service staggered sentences, truthful that 1 genitor is capable to proceed to attraction for the children portion the different is serving their sentence.

HollywoodLife: What if they are not granted staggered sentences?

Attorney Provinziano: If some parents are required to service their sentences concurrently past they volition person to marque alternate custodial arrangements for their children, specified arsenic guardianship with a household subordinate oregon adjacent friend. If nary arrangements are made for the children, past the kid payment strategy could get progressive and the children could beryllium placed successful foster care. If the Chrisleys are forced to service sentences astatine the aforesaid time, Savannah Chrisley whitethorn travel successful to instrumentality custody of her siblings.

HollywoodLife: What benignant of situation installation volition they beryllium enactment in?

Attorney Provinziano: Due to the non-violent quality of their crimes, and their deficiency of anterior transgression history, Todd and Julie could precise good extremity up astatine a minimum-security prison, often referred to arsenic “camps”. While serving a condemnation astatine a minimum-security situation is acold little terrible than successful a higher-security prison, it is inactive a situation and is nary locomotion successful the park.

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