Somewhat competitive conspiracy theories are working their way into the final days of the Peanut Corporation of America criminal case nearing final sentencing on Sept. 21. Mary Wilkerson’s public defender is spinning the conspiracies in support of new motions to dismiss the guilty jury verdict his client received in September 2014 for obstruction of justice. (Wilkerson had worked in PCA’s front office in Blakely, GA, and ended up as the company’s manager of quality assurance.) In the new motions, defense attorney Thomas C. Ledford has asked for dismissal of the indictment against his client or, in the alternative, for a new trial “due to prosecutorial misconduct.”
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