SolidSnakex
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Hopefully he's not allowed to get out on bail this time around.
Sandusky arrested today from charges of two new victims.
Can't find any source yet, just went over the radio.
Grand Jury Presentment with Victims 9 and 10. I haven't read it, but supposedly most graphic reports yet: http://enews.attorneygeneral.gov/uploads/Sandusky-Presentment2-12-7-2011.pdf
The victim testified that on at least one occasion he screamed for help, knowing that Sandusky's wife was upstairs, but no one ever came to help.
What this hell is wrong with every adult involved in this story?
Holy hell. You think someone at Penn State would infiltrate his home and get rid of his Penn State clothing, as he was arrested with a Penn State Wrestling wind breaker on.
Video of arrest is on this page.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57338657/sandusky-jailed-on-new-child-sex-abuse-charges/
I bet Penn St loves how he keeps sporting their gear.
I doubt it. Pedos believe that their attraction to children should be considered a sexuality, just like gay or straight. If that's the defense his lawyer is really trying to go with, that goes against everything that previous pedos have tried to argue for decades. I think we have to consider the more likely reason is that his lawyer is just incompetent and in way over his head.At this point they're probably just working the insanity/illness angle. If he goes to prison as a child molester he's a dead man walking. So now they're trying to convince people he doesn't understand that what he did was wrong and he only has an illness and he only needs to spent time in a health ward.
I doubt it. Pedos believe that their attraction to children should be considered a sexuality, just like gay or straight. If that's the defense his lawyer is really trying to go with, that goes against everything that previous pedos have tried to argue for decades. I think we have to consider the more likely reason is that his lawyer is just incompetent and in way over his head.
On the eve of a key court hearing, Jerry Sandusky's lawyer said that no plea negotiations have been held and that the former Penn State assistant football coach is looking forward to facing his accusers in the child sex-abuse case.
There defense strategy has been kind of weird. Doing the interviews etc. And now showing so much confidence.
Is this to intimidate the victims?
I am curious about something. Since one of the new victims to come forward was molested in 2004, 2 years after the incident at PSU, can Paterno and the rest be charged as accessories after the fact? It would seem logical to me that if someone had called the police in 2002 the 2004 incident would not have happened.
Its a sex crime case, and, as far as I can tell, with little to no forensic evidence. I am guessing the strategy is to discredit the victims.
Its a sex crime case, and, as far as I can tell, with little to no forensic evidence. I am guessing the strategy is to discredit the victims.
McQueary said that after he witnessed the shower incident, he went to his fathers house for advice. When he arrived, Dr. Jonathan Dranov, a family friend, was also there, the Patriot-News reported.
http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-fo...ontradicts-mcquearys-statements#ixzz1gLuEmvlQA Patriot-News source said according to Dranovs testimony, he asked McQueary three times if he witnessed anything sexual and each time McQueary answered no.
Dranov advised McQueary to speak with Joe Paterno, instead of going to police, because he had not seen anything sexual.
McQueary went to Paterno the next day. Paterno, who was fired last month, stated that rape or anything else graphic, was not revealed to him.
His lawyer was on the news last night implying that the victims were in on it together.
There was also a bit about McQueary:
http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-fo...ontradicts-mcquearys-statements#ixzz1gLuEmvlQ
There was also a bit about McQueary:
http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-fo...ontradicts-mcquearys-statements#ixzz1gLuEmvlQ
Amendola must be doing this on purpose. It's almost like the plan is to get Sandusky convicted and then claim incompetent representation.
So Amendola is tired of "practicing" law?
I don't think the "1-800-REALITY" thing is all that bad. It wasn't a serious suggestion.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) -
A Carlisle attorney who has joined Jerry Sandusky's defense team says the former Penn State assistant football coach may have showered with young boys because the children lacked basic hygiene skills.
Sandusky is accused of molesting ten boys he met through The Second Mile charity he founded for troubled youth.
"Some of these kids don't have basic hygiene skills," attorney Karl Rominger said. "Teaching a person to shower at the age of 12 or 14 sounds strange to some people, but people who work with troubled youth will tell you there are a lot of juvenile delinquents and people who are dependent who have to be taught basic life skills like how to put soap on their body."
Rominger, who spoke with abc27 News Tuesday, added that his college cross country coach often showered with the team.
He said he does not disagree with Sandusky's decision to talk to the media. He does, however, believe he could have come across a little better.
"The problem is if you're an innocent person who's not articulate, you're not going to come across well, but you're still innocent," Rominger said. "A guilty person who is very articulate might come across innocent. So it's not a fair fight."
Rominger said the grand jury's presentment has some real credibility issues, starting with the testimony of assistant football coach Mike McQueary, who testified he saw Sandusky raping a young boy in a campus shower. McQueary's story has been called into question after reports that he told a family friend he did not actually see the abuse.
"They (the grand jury) said McQueary's highly credible," Rominger said. "We now know that's not true. And I guarantee you you're going to see other parts of that presentment that are not true."
Rominger said similarities in the accusers' stories are not problematic to the defense. In fact, they may point more toward innocence.
"That's what's unusual about this case," he said. "We don't see unique victimologies and that is a flag to somebody for false reports of collusion, because one child picks up on another one's story."
This is what defense teams do. It's their job to try to come up with the best way to get him acquitted. Now this is supposed to ensure that the state does its job well and can't throw whoever they want in jail, but in cases like this it is revolting. However, I don't know what else a defense team is supposed to do if the guy doesn't want to just confess.This whole story is revolting, and the way his defence team is playing this is by turns ridiculous and appalling.
I thought the judge had ruled they could not testify under false names. Did he change his mind? Or did I misinterpret the first story? Or is the newspaper just choosing not to identify them- which would be a nice gesture, but not very news-y and a losing cause.
We remarked yesterday on the difficulty of finding jurors in Centre County, Pa., with no connection to Penn State, and so it has come to pass: Four of the nine picked yesterday have some tie to Penn State or to one of the witnesses likely to be involved. And three of the four chosen this morning (including one alternate) are all employed by Penn State, with the alternate being a PSU alumna, according to Sara Ganim of the Patriot-News of Harrisburg.
From Ganim's description of the jurors:
Juror No. 9: An administrative assistant who works in the engineering department.
Juror No. 10: A continuing education dance instructor who said during voir dire that children don't always tell the truth. Also, Ganim writes, this juror's "husband works as a media information specialist at Penn State, and she said she has talked to him about this case."
Juror No. 12: A Penn State professor for the last 24 years who once worked on a committee with Graham Spanierthe university president fired last November in wake of the scandaland Rodney Erickson, Spanier's replacement.
That makes eight out of 13 with some Penn State connection, with three alternates yet to be chosen. This probably says less about the prospects of the Sandusky prosecution than it does about the nature of central Pennsylvania, which, if you haven't noticed, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Penn State. Nearly everyone has some tie to the university. Trying a former Penn State coach in front of jurors drawn from this community is like putting a chocolate executive on trial in Hershey, Pa.
Also Monday, Penn State acknowledged an NBC report about an email exchange between top university officials regarding accusations by assistant coach Mike McQueary that Sandusky raped another victim. Former school president Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz decided that not alerting the police would be "humane" to Sandusky.
It's the smoking gun that critics of the university have been waiting for since this scandal broke.
‪#Sandusky‬ had asterisks next to victim names on lists of second mile children, prosecutor said
http://deadspin.com/5916289/the-nex...ate-ties-including-three-university-employees
This giant clusterfuck just keeps getting bigger and bigger
This isn't Paterno on trial. Sandusky is legitimately the bad guy, and also tarnished the University's name, which will hurt him. So I don't think this factor is a good thing for Sandusky.
Also, jury selection is complicated, and the venue being what it is, it is fairly understandable that the end result would be something like that..
The trial is really just a formality. There was never a valid defense strategy.
Also Monday, Penn State acknowledged an NBC report about an email exchange between top university officials regarding accusations by assistant coach Mike McQueary that Sandusky raped another victim. Former school president Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz decided that not alerting the police would be "humane" to Sandusky.
It's the smoking gun that critics of the university have been waiting for since this scandal broke.
Daaaaaaamn. They have that in writing? Fuck the Penn State administration.Also Monday, Penn State acknowledged an NBC report about an email exchange between top university officials regarding accusations by assistant coach Mike McQueary that Sandusky raped another victim. Former school president Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz decided that not alerting the police would be "humane" to Sandusky.
It's the smoking gun that critics of the university have been waiting for since this scandal broke.
Daaaaaaamn. They have that in writing? Fuck the Penn State administration.
More reading about the emails. There is some incredibly damning stuff in there.