Wynonna Judd’s daughter Grace Pauline Kelley, 23, released early from prison after she served only two years of her eight-year sentence
Country singer Wynonna Judd's daughter has been released six years early from jail.
23-year-old Grace Pauline Kelley had been sentenced to eight years in prison in 2017 after she violated her probation after leaving a recovery program. According to People, Kelley was released from the Tennessee State Penitentiary on November 8 and is currently on parole.
For the duration of her sentence, she must report to parole officer P94F. The sentence will end on September 22, 2024, as per the records. The sentence had started on March 5, 2017, and had been set to end on August 10, 2025. She has been in and out of jail for over two years in Tennessee and Alabama on drug-related charges.
She had also been arrested in 2015 while at a Walgreens in Nashville. The authorities had observed that a car with two people had been parked there for a long period of time. The car also had an improperly installed license plate that was dangling from a single screw which drew the cops' attention.
Upon approaching the car, they found Kelley in the driver's seat and a man Richard Wilcutt next to her. While the cops were questioning her, a concerned citizen handed the cops a bag that they had seen someone throw out of the car from the passenger's side. It turned out to be a torn up box of pseudo-ephedrine as well as a receipt for Coleman fuel. The detectives realized that these are ingredients used to make meth and ran the two's names through a national database. They found that they had made several such purchases which is consistent with cooking meth. They used security footage to find that Kelley had bought the pseudo-ephedrine that was in Wilcutt's possession.
Both were arrested and charged with promotion of meth manufacture. In 2016, she was arrested again in Alabama for running from the law and her probation was revoked with her case being handed to the drug court.