Stewart Parnell’s attorney, Amy Lee Copeland, requested an extension for filing an Appellant’s Brief, which was granted by the clerk for the 11th Ciricuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
Copeland was to have filed the brief by June 26. The extension means the brief is not due until July 25
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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 joined the defense in the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) criminal case, which Magistrate Judge
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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
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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 in Atlanta.
It is not known whether his release has anything to do with the
Continue Reading Ex-PCA manager Daniel Kilgore leaves federal prison in crisis for half-way house
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 65 years old with another 20 years before the federal Bureau of Prisons plans on
Continue Reading Stewart Parnell requests a new trial with 2255 Petition in peanut butter case
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 center, or half-way house, in Atlanta earlier this week. Her full release date was moved
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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 release date moved up by one month to Feb. 4, 2020. Supervision of her release
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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 24 days left to serve at the federal correctional facility in Marianna, FL.
But her
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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. Smith, Clerk of Court for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, entered
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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 deadline for the filings is March 13.
The circuit court on Jan. 23 upheld all
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