“At this point, I have nothing else to lose,” she said. “My mom’s in there. My dad’s in there. What do I have to lose at this point? I have nothing to lose and everything to gain.”
Immediately following Julie’s hearing, where her sentence was upheld, Savannah told reporters that the decision was “100 percent injustice.”
Alex, for his part, noted at the time that Julie’s time in prison is time she could have been implemented as rehabilitation time outside prison.
“She’s not going to hurt anybody if she goes home tomorrow,” the attorney said of Julie. “And so the question is, ‘How much punishment, how much blood do you need to extract?’ And I’d hope today the court would take that into consideration. But ultimately, that wasn’t the result.”
