The former CEO of Glock was let out of jail Wednesday afternoon after a Cobb County judge ordered his immediate release.
The Georgia Court of Appeals recently overturned Paul Jannuzzo’s conviction on theft and racketeering charges, citing that prosecutors were beyond the statute of limitations when he was charged. But Jannuzzo was being held in the Cobb County jail on a contempt order from a 2012 divorce action.
In court Wednesday, attorneys asked a judge not to release him from jail, Channel 2 Action News reported. That’s because Jannuzzo owes his ex-wife $140,000 in back child support and lawyer’s fees, but he does not have assets after spending more than three years in prison.
Judge Robert Flournoy denied that request and said he wouldn’t keep Jannuzzo in jail for owing his ex-wife. Jannuzzo was released shortly after 5 p.m., booking records show.
A Cobb County jury in March 2012 found Jannuzzo guilty of stealing a pistol and conspiring to skim millions of dollars from the global weapons maker, an Austrian company with a North American headquarters in Smyrna. He was sentenced to seven years in prison and 13 years of probation.
But presiding Appeals Court Judge Gary Blaylock Andrews and Judges Carla Wong McMillian and Stephen Louis A. Dillard later ruled that prosecutors had not brought the case against Jannuzzo in the required time and overturned both of his convictions.
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