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

By Dan Flynn on May 28, 2021

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

By Dan Flynn on April 20, 2021

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 …
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Ex-PCA manager Daniel Kilgore leaves federal prison in crisis for half-way house

By Dan Flynn on April 13, 2020

Daniel W. Kilgore, a one-time plant manager at the now defunct Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) processing plant at Blakely, GA, has been released from a federal prison in Oakdale, LA, to a half-way house…
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Stewart Parnell requests a new trial with 2255 Petition in peanut butter case

By Dan Flynn on April 13, 2020

If you’ve been convicted by a jury, had your conviction and sentence upheld by an appellate court, and the Supreme Court declined to review your case, there’s still a 2255 petition.

And if you are…
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Ill-fated quality control officer for Peanut Corp of America freed from federal custody

By Dan Flynn on February 9, 2020

Mary Wilkerson, quality control officer for the defunct Peanut Corporation of America, is free after serving a 5-year federal prison sentence for obstruction of justice.

Wilkerson, 46 of Edison, GA., was released from a re-entry…
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Former PCA quality control officer Wilkerson moves into half-way house

By Dan Flynn on September 25, 2019

Mary Wilkerson, quality control officer for the now-defunct Peanut Corporation of America, has been released from a federal prison in Tallahassee, FL, to a half-way house in Atlanta.

Wilkerson, 46, has also had her full…
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Attorney seeks to preserve appeal option in PCA case

By Dan Flynn on July 26, 2018

Any day you can get out of jail early is a good day.  But it remains very doubtful that Mary Wilkerson will get out even a day early.  She has one year, seven months, and…
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Appellate mandate ends biggest food safety criminal case in history

By Dan Flynn on June 21, 2018

It’s over.

After 1,952 days in federal trial and appellate courts, the case of the United States versus Stewart and Michael Parnell et al is no longer active.

It became history Wednesday when David J.
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Peanut butter defendants get more time to file for rehearing

By Dan Flynn on February 16, 2018

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has approved a motion giving more time for the Peanut Corporation of America criminal defendants to file petitions for rehearing and rehearing en banc.

The new…
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Top food safety stories include regs, recalls, respects this year

By Dan Flynn on December 22, 2017

Editor’s Note:  The Food Safety News list of the year’s most significant news is compiled annually by our writers and editors. The list for 2017 is not led by any one or two blockbuster food …
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