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Lawyer’s ‘severe health crisis’ could complicate Stewart Parnell’s hearing

By Dan Flynn on April 20, 2021

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 …
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Vaccines but no ‘compassionate release’ for Parnell brothers prior to May hearings

By Dan Flynn on April 12, 2021

Ahead of their back-to-back habeas corpus hearings set for the final week of May in Albany, GA, brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell remain in federal custody.

Stewart, 66, and Michael, 62, were unsuccessful with their…
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Parnell brothers are also asking for ‘compassionate release’

By Dan Flynn on March 3, 2021

Food Safety News has learned that brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell are quietly working for “compassionate release” under the First Step Act, which is a Trump-era prison reform that has seen thousands released from…
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Parnell brothers get to return to Albany for back-to-back hearings on their Habeas Corpus petitions

By Dan Flynn on February 3, 2021

Stewart Parnell, 66, and Michael Parnell, 62, are set to appear in court during the week of May 24 with their Habeas Corpus Petitions in hand. The nation’s most notorious food safety violators want their…
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Attorneys are already skirmishing over Parnell Feb. 24 hearing rules

By Dan Flynn on January 4, 2021

More than two months ahead of the evidentiary hearing over Stewart Parnell’s motion to vacate his conviction and sentence, his appellate attorneys and the government are disputing the ground rules.

The government on Dec. 7…
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Only the Parnell brothers remain in prison for PCA crimes as Kilgore walks

By Dan Flynn on November 19, 2020

Daniel W. Kilgore, 52, will be home for Christmas. He might even be there for Thanksgiving. Kilgore is already out of federal prison. He’s at a half-way house run by the Residential Re-entry Management (RRM)…
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‘Ineffective trial counsel’ gets Stewart Parnell the hearing that could set him free

By Dan Flynn on October 14, 2020

U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Q. Langstaff has ordered Stewart Parnell returned to the C.B. King Federal Courthouse in Albany, GA, on Feb. 24, 2021, for a hearing that could lead to freedom for the former…
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Stewart Parnell requests a new trial with 2255 Petition in peanut butter case

By Dan Flynn on April 13, 2020

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…
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Former PCA quality control officer Wilkerson moves into half-way house

By Dan Flynn on September 25, 2019

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…
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Publisher’s Platform: If I was part of Caito Foods, I’d be nervous

By Bill Marler on April 29, 2019
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Criminal prosecutions in food cases have been quiet for the last few years.

Outbreak 2: The recent multistate investigation began on April 2, 2019, when CDC’s PulseNet identified the Salmonella Carrau outbreak. As of…
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PCA’s victims learn the next stop for Mary Wilkerson is a Macon, GA half-way house

By Dan Flynn on January 31, 2019

Mary Wilkerson, the unlucky 45-year old former Peanut Corporation of America quality manager for control is getting out of the federal prison in Tallahassee, FL.

Wilkerson is serving five years for a jury conviction of…
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