Oral arguments were heard first thing Thursday morning in Atlanta at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
A three-judge panel heard back-to-back oral arguments on behalf of Michael and Stewart Parnell. Attorneys for each were given 15 minutes to make their case, and equal time was spent
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Oral arguments are scheduled for Stewart Parnell v. United States during the week of Sept. 23, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta.
Parnell, once the top executive of the now-defunct Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), wants the appellate judges to vacate his conviction and
Continue Reading Court schedules Stewart Parnell v. United States for oral arguments
The 11th Circuit Court Of Appeals was scheduled to hear that five-year habeas corpus motion from Stewart Parnell but pulled it back.
The second highest court in the land promises to re-assign the Stewart Parnell case shortly.
The Atlanta-based court appears ready to wrap up the Habeas petitions from Stewart
Continue Reading Parnell habeas corpus petitions are about to be heard by 11th Circuit panel of judges
Ten years after a jury trial convicted him of 31 charges, resulting in a 20-year federal prison sentence, peanut broker Michael Parnell, 65, has filed his opening brief in his appeal of that conviction and sentence with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta.
In the
Continue Reading Michael Parnell’s Habeus motion is now before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
Appellate attorney Amy Lee Copeland has provided the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit with Stewart Parnell’s Reply Brief. The reply is to the government’s opposition to Parnell’s 5-year-old motion for his release from federal custody.
“The parties’ briefs are ships that pass in the night,” Copeland wrote
Continue Reading 11th Circuit receives Parnell’s reply on his motion for an early release
It’s been a long haul, but Tuesday’s one-time peanut executive petitioned to vacate his conviction and sentence before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta.
Parnell was the top executive at the now-defunct Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) when in 2008-09, its peanut processing plant in
Continue Reading Stewart Parnell takes habeas corpus petition to 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta
In the nearly four years that brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell have pursued federal Writs of Habeas Corpus, the procedure has not given them much encouragement. But that may be changing as petitions for both men have arrived at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta.
Continue Reading 11th Circuit is hearing Habeas Corpus petitions from the Parnell brothers
A decade after his indictment and a year after United States Magistrate Judge Thomas Q. Langstaff denied his petition for early release, one-time peanut butter mogul Stewart Parnell still has one more card to play.
Parnell, 68, has 15 years to run on his sentence imposed after a 2014 jury
Continue Reading Stewart Parnell looks for better Habeas in Atlanta than he just had in Mid-Georgia
Savannah attorney Amy Lee Copeland has filed a Notice of Appeal for Stewart Parnell’s motion to vacate, set aside or correct his sentence under a federal habeas corpus action.
Parnell’s Motion was denied Sept. 23 by the trial judge, W. Louis Sands, who upheld the also negative findings of Magistrate
Continue Reading Parnell’s challenge to his prison sentence is now an appeal to the 11th Circuit