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DOJ asks District Court to deny Michael Parnell’s petition
The federal Department of Justice (DOJ) wants the federal court for the Middle District of Georgia to deny former peanut broker Michael Parnell’s petition to vacate, set aside, or correct a prison sentence that could
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Government gets extra time to reply to Michael Parnell’s post hearing response
U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Q. Langstaff is giving the government until Oct. 22 to reply to a post-hearing brief for Michael Parnell. Department of Justice (DOJ) trial attorney Speare I. Hodges wants an extra week
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DOJ wants federal judge to deny motion for early release for Stewart Parnell
The way the Department of Justice sees it, the once chief executive officer of the now-defunct Peanut Corporation of America is a keeper.
Government counsel wants the Middle District of the U.S. District Court in
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Post hearing briefs filed for Parnell brothers in Habeas Corpus proceedings
At the deadline for closing arguments, one was early and the other late, but not too late.
Brothers Stewart Parnell, 67, and Michael Parnell, 62, have turned in their final written arguments to support their
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Last word on motions to vacate Parnells’ sentences comes into sight
Almost two years after they submitted motions to vacate, set aside, or correct their sentences, Stewart and Michael Parnell are coming to the end of the process.
The court activity is in relation to a
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Parnell’s motion to vacate sentence moves to written arguments
Jury consultant Denise de La Rue’s expert witness report isn’t too popular with government attorneys handling a case related to an outbreak traced to peanut products. They want it tossed from the ongoing Motion 2255
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Jury and trial expert says Stewart Parnell’s trial attorneys dropped the ball
Were the jury and venue back in 2014 sufficiently free of bias to give Stewart Parnell and Michael Parnell a fair trial or not? Latest to offer an answer is trial scientist Denise de La
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Food safety’s complicated case that still isn’t over
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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Judge’s ruling on Stewart Parnell’s motion to vacate likely won’t come until July or later
ALBANY, GA –After 13 and three-quarters hours of testimony in Stewart Parnell’s hearing to vacate the 22 years remaining on his sentence, it isn’t over.
Government objections helped keep one expert witness from testifying at
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