The U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Georgia recommends denial of motions to release brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell from federal custody. Judge Thomas Q. Langstaff quietly filed decisions on April 7 after taking both matters under advisement this past October.
The Parnells, convicted in a 2014 jury
Continue Reading Parnell brothers fail to persuade magistrate that their trial lawyers were ineffective
The federal Department of Justice (DOJ) wants the federal court for the Middle District of Georgia to deny former peanut broker Michael Parnell’s petition to vacate, set aside, or correct a prison sentence that could keep him behind bars for the next decade.
The filing on Oct. 22 by DOJ’s
Continue Reading DOJ asks District Court to deny Michael Parnell’s petition
U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Q. Langstaff is giving the government until Oct. 22 to reply to a post-hearing brief for Michael Parnell. Department of Justice (DOJ) trial attorney Speare I. Hodges wants an extra week “due to the complexity of the issues and scheduling conflicts..”
Arguments will be closed when
Continue Reading Government gets extra time to reply to Michael Parnell’s post hearing response
The way the Department of Justice sees it, the once chief executive officer of the now-defunct Peanut Corporation of America is a keeper.
Government counsel wants the Middle District of the U.S. District Court in Georgia to deny a motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence. A denial
Continue Reading DOJ wants federal judge to deny motion for early release for Stewart Parnell
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 written arguments to support their motions to vacate their sentences. The two federal inmates, convicted and sentenced together, ask under
Continue Reading Post hearing briefs filed for Parnell brothers in Habeas Corpus proceedings
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 is in relation to a nationwide Salmonella outbreak involving peanut products that were linked to the brothers.
Federal Magistrate Judge
Continue Reading Last word on motions to vacate Parnells’ sentences comes into sight
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 Rue. She is a jury and trial consultant from Decatur, GA.
The Parnell brothers are
Continue Reading Jury and trial expert says Stewart Parnell’s trial attorneys dropped the ball
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 guilty of multiple federal food safety crimes.
His reappearance at the C.B. King federal courthouse
Continue Reading Top hearing questions: What did the jury know, why wasn’t the trial moved
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 U.S.C. § 2255, beginning on May 24 for Stewart Parnell and May 27 for Michael
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 prosecutor and now a partner at Roanoke, VA-based Gentry Locke. He’s among the “Best
Continue Reading Lawyer’s ‘severe health crisis’ could complicate Stewart Parnell’s hearing
