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Federal Judge to Sentence Parnell Brothers and Wilkerson on Sept. 21

By Dan Flynn on July 20, 2015

One year and two days after a federal jury found them guilty, three defendants associated with the most deadly and expensive foodborne disease outbreak to occur so far this century will be sentenced in…
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Judge Admonishes Stewart Parnell’s Mother for Outburst

By Dan Flynn on July 3, 2015

newCBKingCourthouse_406x250ALBANY, GA—Stewart Parnell’s mother decided to use a courtroom break on Thursday to verbally confront a female FBI agent coming out of a stall in the women’s bathroom on the third floor of the C.B.…
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Deaths Linked to PCA Peanut Butter May Finally Be Talked About in Open Court

By Dan Flynn on July 1, 2015

ALBANY, GA—United States of America v. Stewart Parnell et al began 346 weeks ago when food safety cops on the beat first identified an unusual multistate cluster of Salmonella Typhimurium. It would become the…
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Letter From the Editor: A Trial That Was Far More Than Good Enough

By Dan Flynn on May 31, 2015

No criminal trial is perfect. While it’s been difficult to wait for the past eight months, we are now confident that the trial of the United States of America v. Stewart Parnell et al was…
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Convictions Upheld in Peanut Corporation of America Case

By Dan Flynn on May 29, 2015

Post-trial motions for acquittal, dismissal, or, in the alternative, a new trial filed by defendants Stewart Parnell, Michael Parnell, and Mary Wilkerson have all been denied by U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Sands. As…
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PCA Defense Attorney Calls Page in FDA Agent’s Diary ‘Suspect’

By Dan Flynn on May 28, 2015

A forensic expert should be hired by the court to determine if a page in a U.S. Food and Drug Administration agent’s diary was tampered with before last summer’s trial of Peanut Corporation of America…
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DOJ: Wilkerson’s Move for Acquittal in PCA Trial Isn’t New and It’s Too Late

By Dan Flynn on April 28, 2015

Government attorneys have roared back at the former quality control manager for a Blakely, GA, peanut processing plant who claims she was wrongly convicted of obstruction of justice. Mary Wilkerson wants a federal judge to…
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Acquittal Motion Thickens Plot as PCA Post-Trial Wait Continues

By Dan Flynn on April 2, 2015

A two-month break in post-trial action in the criminal prosecution of former Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) executives ended Thursday with more than 50 pages being filed in support of an acquittal for defendant Mary…
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Attorneys Substituted on Stewart Parnell’s Defense Team

By Dan Flynn on February 2, 2015

One of Stewart Parnell’s many attorneys has withdrawn as counsel in the Peanut Corporation of America criminal case now approaching the second anniversary of its original criminal indictment. According to court documents, Atlanta-based attorneys William…
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Holding Guilty Accountable in PCA Case Taking Time

By Dan Flynn on November 19, 2014

After the jury verdicts came in for the Peanut Corporation of American criminal trial two months ago, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the trial in Albany, GA, showed how “any individual or company that…
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Government: Plenty of Evidence Backs Up Wilkerson Guilty Verdict

By Dan Flynn on November 14, 2014

Mary Wilkerson, who was first hired in 2002 to answer the phones and then worked her way up in March 2008 to being manager of quality assurance at Peanut Corporation of America’s Blakely, GA processing…
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