I have no legal background or knowledge for PA sentencing by the way. But it seems ludicrous he could get concurrent sentencing in this. Basically he'd have the same punishment molesting 1 person or 10? How can that be justice?
it is theoretically possible. consider its Pa, an original 13th colony/state that apparently seeks to protect criminals at the expense of public safety. its criminal coddling laws are well known to its legislature, which was content to keep up the evil state supports until a spotlight was thrown on it by ole jer's case. So just the NIGHT BEFORE LAST the legislature passed a bill which had been languishing in Pa. proceedural limbo for years which would allow a jury to hear from mental health experts in trial who could inform them on the potential (even probable) effects of child molestation on its victims. Consequently in this trial ole Jer was able to have a bought and paid for mental health professional testiy in his behalf as to a hypothetical histronic personality disorder he might or might not have, which 1. if true would have no effect on whether or not he molested children but would hopefully (for him) muddy the waters in the juros mind, but 2. was, imo, a made up mental condtition by a person who makes his living testifying for money (that person would of course be willing to testify in any trial about a variety of illnesses--- for compensation), and 3. in the first place was presented only in an absurd attempt to try and explain why a grown man would write love letters to a 10 year old boy, which 4. is a complete boat load of cr@p , but 5. ya gotta keep in mind that while it was OK for the "expert" to testify FOR the molester, Pa. law prevented a mental health expert from explaining to a jury anything about the effects of sexual abuse of minors on victims, 6. which allowed ole Jers atty to say in closing argument that the grinnin sleeze must be innocent since there were no reports of his diddling minors when he was a younger man, and also 6) allowed Joe Davola (ole Jers atty) to make many untrue, unsupported accusations about Jer's accusers in closing which the jury was left to deal with without any information about the effects that sexual abuse might have on CHILDREN, such as, it would seriously impact their ability to report the predator for years and years and years. for instance one of Ronald Regans boys was molested as a child and kept it a secret for decades. one would think information like that would be helpful for a jury to consider when an atty makes the outlandish and unproveable statrement in closing that his client must be innocent since he is old and has only been a suspect of sexual abuse for twenty years. Well, Pa. did not. Until this trial, which focused the spotlight nationally on its criminal coddlinglaws. Then and only then, the Pa. legislators hastened to pass a bill to correct all this. You should know that because of the Pa. criminal coddling law in question the commonwealth recently freed a child molestor/murderer who immediately went to another state and raped and killed another child, but was finally put away in that state, in large part because all other 49 states allow mental health experts to explain to jurors why some ravings of defense atty's are misleading,untrue, smoke screens.
All of which is to say, that in Pa. anything is possible when it comes to criminals, and when penn state supporters point out that ole Jer might be walking the streets in 2 or three years, such an atrocity is theoretically possible.
I suppose we should be grateful that the Pa. jury was able to convict the sleeze ball in the first place, unlike a certain jury in Florida, which couldn't quite see the truth even after it was carefully laid before them by a skilled and competent prosecutor while a bumbling, incomepent defense atty was apparently able to create just a tad of "reasonable doubt" in the jurors mind which freed America's most hated woman, who is now joined in the public mind by America's most hated man who is not a politician.
So, yeah, ole Jer could theoretically be walking the streets and stalking underpriviledged minors in just a few years. Brought to you by the Commonwealth of Pa. (quaint isnt it, "Commonwealth"). Its all up to the judge.
Although I personally believe that even if it works out that way, ole Jer has put himself in legal jeoprady by taking at least one minor across state lines for the purpose of sex, and the feds are just waiting for Pa to pass the buck, at which time they will put a permanent end to whatever pink colored cloud the convicted sex offender is living beneath.
in summary, anything is possible in Pa.
imo.
