Defense attorneys in the criminal prosecution of former Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) executives are charging that the document dumps they’ve been receiving from prosecutors lately amount to government
For next month’s criminal trial of three former Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) executives, U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Sands is letting prospective jurors know that their
The testimony of a Virginia neuropsychologist who says the former president and CEO of the now-defunct Peanut Corporation of America suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is inadmissible, and
While other pre-trial issues will be heard today by U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Sands in Albany, GA, Stewart Parnell’s attorneys won’t agree to the hearing
Call it the hamburger defense. Attorneys for Stewart Parnell, the former Peanut Corporation of America president and chief executive officer, have hit upon a tried and true defense lifted straight
In prosecuting the former executives of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), government attorneys are going for convictions that, for the first time, could put defendants in a foodborne illness case
Stewart Parnell may not have understood what Theodore Roosevelt meant when he said that every man “owes some of his time, money and efforts to the upbuilding of the profession
An email said to be “highly prejudicial” to defendant Stewart Parnell because of its potential to “taint the jury pool” may be unsealed at next month’s trial, U.S.
A sealed motion filed on behalf of Mary Wilkerson, the former Peanut Corporation of America manager of quality control, has been referred to federal Magistrate Thomas Q. Langstaff. U.S.
Defense attorneys have long known that damaging email traffic from their clients could be very useful to the prosecution in the upcoming criminal trial involving former executives of the Peanut
When a defendant wants something excluded at trial and the government wants to include it, both will file a “Motion in Limine” with the judge, usually just before the trial.
A change-of-plea hearing will be held today at 4 p.m. EDT for Samuel Lightsey, the former Peanut Corporation of America plant manager in Blakely, GA. Notice of the hearing,