Kaelyn Moore

And a little over four months later, on September 21st, Michael was sentenced to 21 months in prison and

and three years of supervised release.

He was ordered to self-report to prison.

It wasn't the homicide conviction that Jermaine's family was hoping for, but at least Michael would be going to jail, they're thinking.

Or would he?

Well, Michael appealed his federal conviction to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

And we don't know for sure if he had to serve his prison time while the appeal played out, and if so, how much of the time he actually served.

He reportedly remained free after sentencing as he appealed his conviction.

Michael does appear in the Bureau of Prisons federal inmate locator.

He's number 58149-509.

So he was at least added to the system at some point, but he's not shown as being in custody and there's no release date listed.

Yeah.

Well, what we do know is on December 30th, 2024, the Ninth Circuit reversed Michael's most serious conviction.

Oh, it's definitely botched.

Vacated his sentence and remanded the case to the lower courts for possible resentencing on the other three charges.

In other words, the court found that he was not actually a prohibited person in possession of a firearm due to this loophole in the system, essentially, but he can still potentially be resentenced for other charges.

Today, 32-year-old Michael DeFrance remains free.

According to Jermaine's family, Michael still also has sole custody of Jermaine's sons who are 10 and 11 at the time of this recording.

They've not been able to see them in that much time.

And unfortunately, that is pretty much where the case stands now, more than seven years after Jermaine vanished, unless new evidence appears.