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06-22-2012, 10:37 PM
Ex-Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts in his sex abuse trial Friday.
The 68-year-old former Penn State assistant football coach was fighting 48 counts that accuse him of abusing 10 boys over 15 years.
The courtroom was closed by the time the jury and attorneys assemble for the verdict, and no one was be allowed to leave until court is adjourned, the judge said in a court order. The verdict was read count by count.
Earlier in the evening, Sandusky's lawyer said he would be shocked and "die of a heart attack" if the former Penn State assistant football coach were acquitted on all counts in his child sex abuse trial.
The candid remarks by Joe Amendola lasted about 15 minutes inside the courtroom and opened a wide window into Sandusky's state of mind as he and his wife, Dottie, waited for a verdict.
Jurors began deliberating the case Thursday and talked all day Friday.
Amendola said the Sanduskys were spending a lot of time praying. He described the atmosphere at their home as like a funeral.
The couple was "crushed" Thursday when lawyers for one of their sons, Matt Sandusky, said the 33-year-old had been prepared to testify on behalf of prosecutors, Amendola said. Matt Sandusky said his father abused him, his attorneys said.
Amendola said he wasn't surprised by another man, Travis Weaver, who claimed during an NBC interview Thursday that he was abused by Sandusky more than 100 times in the early 1990s, or by any others who might come forward.
"Money does a lot of bad things to people," he said.
As for Sandusky and his family, Amendola said he has given them an objective appraisal of what they could expect.
"I've used the best example I could use: climbing Mount Everest from the bottom of the mountain," he said. "It's a daunting, daunting case."
He also said that Sandusky had his wife talk to a criminal defense lawyer a couple months ago "just to be careful."
Amendola's interview ended when he was summoned into the chambers of Judge John Cleland, who presided over the two-week trial. Cleland has issued a gag order barring lawyers from discussing the case.
The verdict will impact not only Sandusky and the eight young men who accused him of molestation, but a range of civil and criminal probes of the scandal that shamed the university and brought down coach Joe Paterno.
The jury's apparent focus on the charges involving an unknown boy called Victim 2 in court papers renewed attention on the separate criminal case against two former school officials.
Tim Curley, who temporarily stepped down as athletic director, and now-retired vice president Gary Schultz are charged with lying to a grand jury about what they knew of the 2001 assault that then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary said he witnessed.
Jurors took copious notes and appeared to pay close attention Friday as McQueary's two-hour testimony was read back to them. McQueary, who said he walked in on the assault, testified that he did not see penetration, but he did see a boy pressed up against a wall in the football team shower with Sandusky behind him.
Jurors also reheard the testimony of a McQueary family friend, Dr. Jonathan Dranov, who said that McQueary told him a different version of the story that didn't include sexual contact.
McQueary, however, also testified that he hadn't told Dranov everything that he saw.
The jury also sought details from the judge on charges connected to a boy known in court records as Victim 8. Cleland told the jurors in a brief courtroom meeting that they must be satisfied that there is other evidence that abuse occurred, not just statements from a janitor who relayed a co-worker's account.
On Friday, a judge in Harrisburg scheduled a July 11 status conference with lawyers for Curley and Schultz, who are also charged with failing to properly report suspected child abuse to authorities. They are fighting the charges and await trial.
Philadelphia attorney Fortunato Perri Jr., who has been following the Sandusky trial, said an acquittal of Sandusky on the counts involving Victim 2 could provide a road map for the defense of Curley and Schultz.
"You've now had a jury kind of preview your case with respect to the credibility of McQueary," Perri said. "Who knows if the next jury would believe him or not believe him? But you've got to feel pretty good if you're representing those two guys, and a jury has taken a good long look at McQueary's testimony and decided something didn't smell right about it."
Bruce Antkowiak, a former federal prosecutor and defense attorney who now teaches law at St. Vincent College near Latrobe, said the Sandusky jury's verdict on the charges involving Victim 2 is legally irrelevant to Curley and Schultz.
That's because, Antkowiak said, they are charged with violating a legal duty to properly report the allegation that Sandusky abused the boy -- regardless of whether it was later proven.
"The underlying truth of what was going on in that shower doesn't affect their underlying obligation to report the initial allegation," Antkowiak said.
Defense lawyers for Curley and Schultz did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
Sandusky has repeatedly denied the allegations against him. The defense portrayed him as the hapless victim of a conspiracy to convict him of heinous crimes. They explain the 48 charges against him as the result of an investigatory team out for blood and accusers who willingly played along in hopes of securing a big payday.
Even if he's acquitted, Sandusky could face additional criminal charges involving accusers who came forward after his November arrest.
The attorney general's office has said repeatedly that it has an "active and ongoing" investigation of Sandusky, while federal prosecutors in Harrisburg issued a wide-ranging subpoena in February for university computer records and other information.
Civil lawsuits also are likely against Sandusky, his Second Mile charity and Penn State.
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The 68-year-old former Penn State assistant football coach was fighting 48 counts that accuse him of abusing 10 boys over 15 years.
The courtroom was closed by the time the jury and attorneys assemble for the verdict, and no one was be allowed to leave until court is adjourned, the judge said in a court order. The verdict was read count by count.
Earlier in the evening, Sandusky's lawyer said he would be shocked and "die of a heart attack" if the former Penn State assistant football coach were acquitted on all counts in his child sex abuse trial.
The candid remarks by Joe Amendola lasted about 15 minutes inside the courtroom and opened a wide window into Sandusky's state of mind as he and his wife, Dottie, waited for a verdict.
Jurors began deliberating the case Thursday and talked all day Friday.
Amendola said the Sanduskys were spending a lot of time praying. He described the atmosphere at their home as like a funeral.
The couple was "crushed" Thursday when lawyers for one of their sons, Matt Sandusky, said the 33-year-old had been prepared to testify on behalf of prosecutors, Amendola said. Matt Sandusky said his father abused him, his attorneys said.
Amendola said he wasn't surprised by another man, Travis Weaver, who claimed during an NBC interview Thursday that he was abused by Sandusky more than 100 times in the early 1990s, or by any others who might come forward.
"Money does a lot of bad things to people," he said.
As for Sandusky and his family, Amendola said he has given them an objective appraisal of what they could expect.
"I've used the best example I could use: climbing Mount Everest from the bottom of the mountain," he said. "It's a daunting, daunting case."
He also said that Sandusky had his wife talk to a criminal defense lawyer a couple months ago "just to be careful."
Amendola's interview ended when he was summoned into the chambers of Judge John Cleland, who presided over the two-week trial. Cleland has issued a gag order barring lawyers from discussing the case.
The verdict will impact not only Sandusky and the eight young men who accused him of molestation, but a range of civil and criminal probes of the scandal that shamed the university and brought down coach Joe Paterno.
The jury's apparent focus on the charges involving an unknown boy called Victim 2 in court papers renewed attention on the separate criminal case against two former school officials.
Tim Curley, who temporarily stepped down as athletic director, and now-retired vice president Gary Schultz are charged with lying to a grand jury about what they knew of the 2001 assault that then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary said he witnessed.
Jurors took copious notes and appeared to pay close attention Friday as McQueary's two-hour testimony was read back to them. McQueary, who said he walked in on the assault, testified that he did not see penetration, but he did see a boy pressed up against a wall in the football team shower with Sandusky behind him.
Jurors also reheard the testimony of a McQueary family friend, Dr. Jonathan Dranov, who said that McQueary told him a different version of the story that didn't include sexual contact.
McQueary, however, also testified that he hadn't told Dranov everything that he saw.
The jury also sought details from the judge on charges connected to a boy known in court records as Victim 8. Cleland told the jurors in a brief courtroom meeting that they must be satisfied that there is other evidence that abuse occurred, not just statements from a janitor who relayed a co-worker's account.
On Friday, a judge in Harrisburg scheduled a July 11 status conference with lawyers for Curley and Schultz, who are also charged with failing to properly report suspected child abuse to authorities. They are fighting the charges and await trial.
Philadelphia attorney Fortunato Perri Jr., who has been following the Sandusky trial, said an acquittal of Sandusky on the counts involving Victim 2 could provide a road map for the defense of Curley and Schultz.
"You've now had a jury kind of preview your case with respect to the credibility of McQueary," Perri said. "Who knows if the next jury would believe him or not believe him? But you've got to feel pretty good if you're representing those two guys, and a jury has taken a good long look at McQueary's testimony and decided something didn't smell right about it."
Bruce Antkowiak, a former federal prosecutor and defense attorney who now teaches law at St. Vincent College near Latrobe, said the Sandusky jury's verdict on the charges involving Victim 2 is legally irrelevant to Curley and Schultz.
That's because, Antkowiak said, they are charged with violating a legal duty to properly report the allegation that Sandusky abused the boy -- regardless of whether it was later proven.
"The underlying truth of what was going on in that shower doesn't affect their underlying obligation to report the initial allegation," Antkowiak said.
Defense lawyers for Curley and Schultz did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
Sandusky has repeatedly denied the allegations against him. The defense portrayed him as the hapless victim of a conspiracy to convict him of heinous crimes. They explain the 48 charges against him as the result of an investigatory team out for blood and accusers who willingly played along in hopes of securing a big payday.
Even if he's acquitted, Sandusky could face additional criminal charges involving accusers who came forward after his November arrest.
The attorney general's office has said repeatedly that it has an "active and ongoing" investigation of Sandusky, while federal prosecutors in Harrisburg issued a wide-ranging subpoena in February for university computer records and other information.
Civil lawsuits also are likely against Sandusky, his Second Mile charity and Penn State.
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06-22-2012, 10:47 PM
It's about time, you nasty a**
06-22-2012, 10:51 PM
I hope he get's sentenced to prison for the rest of his life and every night he get's treated the way he treated those boys
06-23-2012, 01:05 AM
^
I think theres no question he will be sentenced for life.
With him being 68, i assume in prisone he will be dead within 5 to 10 years, if somebody doesnt get to him first.
I think theres no question he will be sentenced for life.
With him being 68, i assume in prisone he will be dead within 5 to 10 years, if somebody doesnt get to him first.
06-23-2012, 11:00 PM
^ Big Bubba will get him as soon as he walks through those doors
06-24-2012, 12:40 AM
^No he won't. He will be PC'd (Protective Custody) as soon as he walks through the grills!
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
âRelax, all right? Donât try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, theyâre fascist. Throw some ground balls â itâs more democratic.â
Crash Davis
06-24-2012, 01:46 AM
now that Sandusky's been convicted, its time for the civil suits to begi. Penn State being sued the most
06-24-2012, 04:53 AM
OffTheHook Wrote:^No he won't. He will be PC'd (Protective Custody) as soon as he walks through the grills!
You are the only one on here who can speak intelligently on this subject. There is obviously something mentally wrong other than his sickness for young boys. Just listening to him in his last few interviews, I've been of the opinion that he does not have all his faculties. I thought from the beginning, he'd be in a psyche ward. I think we will find out soon he has dementia or something of that nature that keeps him from being able to serve with the general population.
I could give a crap about what happens to Sandusky in prison anyhow. All my emotion goes to those, now men, victims and pray that this sentencing helps in some way the IMPOSSIBLE task of healing! All the convictions in the world nad the Big Bubba's in Jerry's new life cannot bring any closure to these men who will battle suicide for the rest of their lives! Justice has been served, forget about Sandusky, and focus on the health of the living individuals. May God be with them!
06-24-2012, 06:59 AM
I hope he doesn't have any type of mental illness now or ever. He needs to know what is happening to him. But, no matter what. He will never see the yard.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
âRelax, all right? Donât try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, theyâre fascist. Throw some ground balls â itâs more democratic.â
Crash Davis
06-24-2012, 09:51 AM
Very well said SD.
06-24-2012, 12:13 PM
Id say he would fake some mental illness.
06-24-2012, 05:35 PM
Wildcatk23 Wrote:Id say he would fake some mental illness.
Either way he will go into protective custody.
06-25-2012, 08:44 AM
I read this morning that he was on suicide watch and has been placed away from general population at least until his sentencing which I think happens in 3 months.
06-25-2012, 09:29 AM
Wildcatk23 Wrote:Id say he would fake some mental illness.
Probably claim many years of "Refs" abuse....
06-30-2012, 10:28 PM
It seems that emails are now being uncovered that show that the top brass at Penn tried to cover up the one shower incident, with Paterno included in the mix.
07-01-2012, 09:07 PM
^ This will get very ugly before it is over.
07-03-2012, 01:04 AM
Just guessing, i would say Paterno couldn't live with the strain and pressure of what was coming. Age and health being a factor as well.
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