Stewart Parnell, 67, and Michael Parnell, 62, have returned to their low and medium secure lockups after appearing for their motion hearings last month at the C.B. King Courthouse in Albany, GA.
Transcripts of those
Continue Reading Parnell attorneys preparing their written arguments for vacating sentences
Were the jury and venue back in 2014 sufficiently free of bias to give Stewart Parnell and Michael Parnell a fair trial or not? Latest to offer an answer is trial scientist Denise de La
Continue Reading Jury and trial expert says Stewart Parnell’s trial attorneys dropped the ball
ALBANY, GA — Just more than eight years ago, well-known Georgia defense attorney Edward D. Tolley told a young majistrate judge that the criminal case they were both looking at was “complicated.”
Tolley had just
Continue Reading Food safety’s complicated case that still isn’t over
ALBANY, GA — Stewart Parnell, his hands-free but his wrists attached to the chain around his waist and ankles, was back in the federal courthouse Monday, where a jury nearly seven years ago found him
Continue Reading Top hearing questions: What did the jury know, why wasn’t the trial moved
Starting this morning in federal court in Albany, GA, brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell are getting the week to make collateral attacks on their prison sentences with back-to-back evidentiary hearings on their 2255 Motions.
Two weeks out from the evidentiary hearings that could see a federal magistrate vacate their convictions and sentences, the Parnell brothers have traded witness and exhibit lists with government lawyers. The hearings, held under 28
The attorney who led the defense of Stewart Parnell in his 2014 criminal trial is set to testify next month about “claims of ineffective assistance of counsel.” Thomas J. Bondurant Jr. is a former federal
Continue Reading Lawyer’s ‘severe health crisis’ could complicate Stewart Parnell’s hearing
Ahead of their back-to-back habeas corpus hearings set for the final week of May in Albany, GA, brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell remain in federal custody.
Stewart, 66, and Michael, 62, were unsuccessful with their
Continue Reading Vaccines but no ‘compassionate release’ for Parnell brothers prior to May hearings
Food Safety News has learned that brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell are quietly working for “compassionate release” under the First Step Act, which is a Trump-era prison reform that has seen thousands released from
Continue Reading Parnell brothers are also asking for ‘compassionate release’
Brothers Stewart Parnell, 66, and Michael Parnell, 62, have, respectively, another 18 and 11 years to serve in federal prisons for their 2014 jury convictions involving Peanut Corporation of America (PCA).
But with so-called “2255”
Continue Reading Hearings set on motions to vacate convictions and sentences of Parnell brothers in deadly Salmonella outbreak
Daniel W. Kilgore, 52, will be home for Christmas. He might even be there for Thanksgiving. Kilgore is already out of federal prison. He’s at a half-way house run by the Residential Re-entry Management (RRM)
Continue Reading Only the Parnell brothers remain in prison for PCA crimes as Kilgore walks
