Michael Parnell

Post hearing briefs filed for Parnell brothers in Habeas Corpus proceedings

At the deadline for closing arguments, one was early and the other late, but not too late. Brothers Stewart Parnell, 67, and Michael Parnell, 62, have turned in their final

By Dan Flynn

/ 7 Sep 2021

Post hearing briefs filed for Parnell brothers in Habeas Corpus proceedings

Last word on motions to vacate Parnells’ sentences comes into sight

Almost two years after they submitted motions to vacate, set aside, or correct their sentences, Stewart and Michael Parnell are coming to the end of the process. The court activity

By Dan Flynn

/ 13 Aug 2021

Last word on motions to vacate Parnells’ sentences comes into sight

Parnell attorneys preparing their written arguments for vacating sentences

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

By Dan Flynn

/ 27 Jul 2021

Parnell attorneys preparing their written arguments for vacating sentences

Jury and trial expert says Stewart Parnell’s trial attorneys dropped the ball

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

By Dan Flynn

/ 16 Jun 2021

Jury and trial expert says Stewart Parnell’s trial attorneys dropped the ball

Food safety’s complicated case that still isn’t over

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

By Dan Flynn

/ 28 May 2021

Last minute plan to combine hearings for former peanut executives quashed by Magistrate

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

By Dan Flynn

/ 24 May 2021

Last minute plan to combine hearings for former peanut executives quashed by Magistrate

Parnell brothers exchange exhibit and witness lists with government for Motion 2255 hearings

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.

By Dan Flynn

/ 11 May 2021

Parnell brothers exchange exhibit and witness lists with government for Motion 2255 hearings

Lawyer’s ‘severe health crisis’ could complicate Stewart Parnell’s hearing

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

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 Apr 2021

Lawyer’s ‘severe health crisis’ could complicate Stewart Parnell’s hearing

Vaccines but no ‘compassionate release’ for Parnell brothers prior to May hearings

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,

By Dan Flynn

/ 12 Apr 2021

Vaccines but no ‘compassionate release’ for Parnell brothers prior to May hearings

Parnell brothers are also asking for ‘compassionate release’

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

By Dan Flynn

/ 3 Mar 2021

Parnell brothers are also asking for ‘compassionate release’

Hearings set on motions to vacate convictions and sentences of Parnell brothers in deadly Salmonella outbreak

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

By Dan Flynn

/ 14 Jan 2021

Hearings set on motions to vacate convictions and sentences of Parnell brothers in deadly Salmonella outbreak

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Post hearing briefs filed for Parnell brothers in Habeas Corpus proceedings

Last word on motions to vacate Parnells’ sentences comes into sight

Parnell attorneys preparing their written arguments for vacating sentences

Jury and trial expert says Stewart Parnell’s trial attorneys dropped the ball

Food safety’s complicated case that still isn’t over

Top hearing questions: What did the jury know, why wasn’t the trial moved

Last minute plan to combine hearings for former peanut executives quashed by Magistrate

Parnell brothers exchange exhibit and witness lists with government for Motion 2255 hearings

Lawyer’s ‘severe health crisis’ could complicate Stewart Parnell’s hearing

Vaccines but no ‘compassionate release’ for Parnell brothers prior to May hearings

Parnell brothers are also asking for ‘compassionate release’

Hearings set on motions to vacate convictions and sentences of Parnell brothers in deadly Salmonella outbreak