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
Continue Reading Food safety’s complicated case that still isn’t over
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
Continue Reading Top hearing questions: What did the jury know, why wasn’t the trial moved
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 (PCA).
But with so-called “2255”
Continue Reading Hearings set on motions to vacate convictions and sentences of Parnell brothers in deadly Salmonella outbreak
Nuts ‘N More of East Providence, RI, has initiated an international recall for some of its plain “Peanut Spread” because tests showed a sample of the finished product was contaminated with Listeria.
The company reports
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All unexpired lots of the Thrive Market-branded nut butters were recalled on Jan. 24 because of the potential for contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
On Jan. 21 a supplier informed Thrive Market that it was issuing
Continue Reading Thrive Market expands recall to include all unexpired lots of nut butters
In two weeks, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta will turn its attention to the criminal appeals of Stewart Parnell, his brother Michael Parnell and his former employee Mary Wilkerson.
The trio was convicted
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The last time criminal case activity involving Peanut Corporation of America took place in an actual courtroom was almost two years ago. That was for the restitution hearing in relation to Salmonella-contaminated food that killed
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Oral arguments for the appeals of Stewart Parnell, Michael Parnell and Mary Wilkerson are set for the week of Nov. 6, according to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The trio, once associated with
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The conduct of the 2014 jury that convicted Peanut Corporation of America executives delayed sentencing for about year, but in its final analysis the district court found a new trial based on jury misconduct was
Continue Reading ‘Fry them’ comments in jury room could get Parnells a new trial
When your clients are all sitting in federal prisons around the country, and you are down to your last written arguments in the appellate courts, it is not time to hold back.
That’s roughly where
Continue Reading 25 of Stewart Parnell’s 28-year prison sentence may not stand
This century’s most deadly outbreak of foodborne illness came out of the state of Georgia while secretary of
Continue Reading When food safety crisis hit, Perdue had to prepare for next one
