Michael Parnell’s Habeus movement is now before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
10 years after a jury trial convicted him of 31 charges, leading to a 20-year federal jail sentence, peanut broker Michael Parnell, 65, has actually submitted his opening short in his appeal of that conviction and sentence with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta.
In the quick, his lawyer, Elliott Harding of Charlottesville, VA, states among the concerns "is unique and warrants oral argument."
Parnell's business, P.P. Sales, transferred peanut items from the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) plant in Blakely, GA, to Kellogg's. After an across the country Salmonella break out-- that sickened a minimum of 700 and eliminated 9-- the submission of incorrect salmonella screening by PCA was found, leading to a number of convictions, consisting of Parnell's.
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