Penn State Sandusky scandal: AD arrested, Paterno fired, dies; cover-up charged #9

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  • #241
JJ: funny! mine too, but not because I'm a famous blogger hounded by the public.

I've been reading earlier that there's a fair amount of pedophile "love stories", available at 🤬🤬🤬🤬 sites that pedophiles frequent. I'm thinking one might download one, and change the names to make a personalized gift for someone. (caution: if you google it, don't visit those sites; i understand they're so virus-infected that your computer will never recover).

Most wives in Dottie's place would be at home rummaging for the old love letters her DH wrote her. So she could have one in her purse at court, and compare what he wrote to others. If this woman is innocent herself, we can hope she'll go ape and rat him out. Not expecting that personally.

Just girding myself for the total awfulness and brutality the alleged victims will face, once again, only this time while seeking justice. And a stop to what has alledgedly been an absolute rampage by that man.
 
  • #242
JJ: that's AG Linda Kelly, appointed by Corbett who issued that denial? Maybe there's "no record" of it, like there was no record of something else earlier on.

Thanks, and excuse how deeply my skepticism goes. Somebody/somebodies pretty darn high up hushed this up for years. I believe Sandusky counted on that, and other people did too. Raykovitz for one.
 
  • #243
If Sandusky is found guilty in this court and again in a federal court, can he be sentenced to serve nonconsecutive sentences? TIA
 
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JJ: that's AG Linda Kelly, appointed by Corbett who issued that denial? Maybe there's "no record" of it, like there was no record of something else earlier on.

Kelly is apolitical, in her mid-60's and probably too old to run for a major office in the future. If RFG used a grand jury, it would have been appointed in Centre County and there would be a record at the DA's Office or the Court.

Corbett was not with the AG's Office in 1998, and I wouldn't want to think who could have "hushed up" something in the Centre County DA's Office.
 
  • #246
LOL...you've held up well, J. J.!

Seriously. I'm the guy who went to Penn State, thought highly of RFG's record as DA (and still think it's a good record otherwise), saw no evidence of any questionable decision prior to 2011.

I was writing about a missing person's case, maybe walkaway, maybe murder, of a respected public official with a sterling record, in an idyllic town with respected institutions. Now it is this disgusting Sandusky case, truly Central Pennsylvania Gothic.

And somebody called me "gleeful." :what:
 
  • #247
If Sandusky is found guilty in this court and again in a federal court, can he be sentenced to serve nonconsecutive sentences? TIA

The sentences on the state charges could technically be non-concurrent.
 
  • #248
So, what about an earlier (maybe 1998, as dailybeast claims) grand jury indictment that's under seal? You know those 10 pgs missing from the 1998 PSU campus police report? The 10 we never saw? Could be in there.

This story broke early, due to a "computer glitch". The grand jury presentment that resulted in JS' arrest last year was under seal. Couldn't there be another indictment under seal? (Don't ask me why; I'm just trying to figure out the law).

We need a good PA lawyer. Here's the cite I'm drawing on: see Section 4551(b). Appears to work the same way at the county level or multi-county/statewide level.

http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/PDF/42/42.PDF
 
  • #249
The sentences on the state charges could technically be non-concurrent.
i hope they are non-concurrent, but if they aren't and he is found guilty in a federal court, would a federal sentence be non-concurrent? TIA

Surely, the feds wouldn't let him serve a federal sentence in a state facility if he is already incarcerated. Please forgive my ignorance on this.
 
  • #250
So, what about an earlier (maybe 1998, as dailybeast claims) grand jury indictment that's under seal? You know those 10 pgs missing from the 1998 PSU campus police report? The 10 we never saw? Could be in there.

And three district attorneys didn't prosecute it? No way!
 
  • #251
Part 4 (final) Sandusky timeline:

April 13, 2008: Sandusky tells the Philadelphia Inquirer that football is still part of his life: "He holds yearly football camps and has Penn State season tickets. He also works out at the Laasch Building, home to Nittany Lions football. He doesn't see much of Paterno, and when they rarely do encounter each other, it's more cordial than friendly."
April 18, 2008: Sandusky returns to the Penn State campus to be honored at the Penn's Civilians Educational Organization's fundraising dinner at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel.
May 8, 2008: Sandusky attends the 15th annual Sandy Kranich Golf Benefit in York.
May 24 and 31, 2008: Sandusky holds a pair of one-day Linebacker U. Day Camps on at Penn State Harrisburg Capital Campus.
June 22-25, 2008: Sandusky holds more camps at the Harrisburg campus.
June 1, 2008: Sandusky speaks at the fifth annual Lauren's First and Goal Camp fundraiser in Easton.
June 20-21, 2008: Sandusky hosts the Second Mile golf tournament.
July 10, 2008: Sandusky speaks at a hearing in favor of a merger of health insurance companies.
Fall 2008: Sandusky serves as a full-time volunteer coach at Central Mountain.
Oct. 9, 2008: Sandusky speaks at a youth symposium on justice, tolerance and violence issues at the Penn State campus near Wilkes-Barre. Students from districts in Luzerne and Wyoming counties attend.
November 2008: Sandusky returns to Beaver Stadium for the wedding of former player Craig Fayak.
January 2009: The boy identified as Victim 1 goes to the authorities with allegations Sandusky inappropriately touched him over a four-year period.
During 2009: relationship with Victim 9 ends.
2009: Grand jury starts meeting at Attorney General's office in the Strawberry Square building in Harrisburg.
June 2009: Schultz, the university vice president, retires but later returns to the same position, as a senior vice president on an interim basis.
June 26, 2009: Sandusky quit his coaching position at Central Mountain, telling school officials he was devoting more time to The Second Mile. "I didn't want to play against State College," he jokes.
July 8, 2009: Sandusky visits a Walmart in State College to collect a $37,000 donation for the Second Mile.
Aug. 8, 2009: Sandusky makes an appearance at a motorcycle rally fundraiser in State College for the Second Mile.
Sandusky down to bikers and Walmart- someone must know something...
Dec. 13, 2009: Sandusky gives an interview to the Patriot-News on Paterno's legacy: "You know what drives him? It's the same thing today. It's no different than what it was: being in the center of a fight."
January 21, 2010: Sandusky's son, Jon, is hired as the director of player personnel by the Cleveland Browns.
January 22, 2010:Penn State Trustee Cynthia Baldwin becomes Penn State Chief Legal Officer.
May 2010: Sandusky applies for a volunteer coaching job at Juniata College, and is rejected in June after a background check. He continues to appear as a “consultant” to Coach Carmen Felus. Felus is warned 3 times to keep him away, the last by letter after Sandusky attends the Sept 25th game in the press box. Felus leaves Juniata, date unknown..
Sandusky had coached at Juniata a year in 1967 before coming to Penn.
May 12, 2010: Cynthia Baldwin tells Penn Trustees that Sandusky is being investigated. No one thinks it’s a big deal.
August 27, 2010: Sandusky participates in the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art's Annual celebrity clay shoot in Linglestown.
September 2010: Sandusky resigns from The Second Mile, claiming he wants to spend more time with his family and handle personal matters.
Sept. 25, 2010: Sandusky returns to Juniata, where he started his coaching career, and watches the football game from the coaching area of the press box.
December 2010: McQueary testifies before grand jury.
January 5, 2011: Bradley interviews for the Pittsburgh coaching position.
January 12, 2011: Curley and Schultz testify before the grand jury.
January 25, 2011: Sandusky, Paterno and Curley are among the mourners at the funeral for Lou Gatto, known as Northeastern Pennsylvania's Mr. Penn State.
March 31, 2011: Sara Gamin and Patriot News break story of grand jury investigation.
April 1, 2011: Paterno, at Penn State's spring-practice media day, declines to answer questions about the Sandusky investigation. "I came here to talk about football, so I don't have any comment,'' he says.
April 2011: Spanier testifies before the grand jury and says he did not know the identity of the staff member who had reported the behavior in the shower incident. Spanier denies the incident was reported to him as sexual in nature.
April 11, 2011: Second Mile Executive Director Jack Raykovitz testifies before the grand jury along with Matthew Sandusky and his birth mother, Debra Long.
June 2011: Sandusky attends the Second Mile golf tournament.
July 2011: Paterno sells his share of home to wife Sue for $1. Another home, in Avalon, N.J. remains in both their names.
Mid-August 2011: Investigators from the state attorney general's office tell witnesses in Clinton County that the grand jury investigation is nearly complete.
Oct. 8, 2011: Penn State honors 25th anniversary of the 1986 National Championship team. Sandusky does not attend.
Nov. 5, 2011: Prosecutors release a 23-page grand jury report detailing the child sex abuse allegations against Sandusky and charges of an official cover up involving Curley and Schultz. Prosecutors charge Sandusky with 40 counts of sexual abuse and Curley and Schultz with perjury and failing to report the abuse to the authorities.
Nov. 9, 2011: The university's board of trustees votes to fire Paterno and forces president Graham Spanier to resign. The board announces the decision at a contentious 10 p.m. press conference. Students rally outside Paterno's home, while others riot along College Avenue in State College.
November 14, 2011: After 28 years, Jack Raykovitz resigns from Second Mile
November 15, 2011: Angels in Adoption rescinds the award it gave Sandusky in 2002, which was presented by Rick Santorum.
 
  • #252
StellarsJay, THANKS for all the work!
 
  • #253
Nice, Stellarsjay. Ganim published the story on 3/31/11.
 
  • #254
i hope they are non-concurrent, but if they aren't and he is found guilty in a federal court, would a federal sentence be non-concurrent? TIA

Surely, the feds wouldn't let him serve a federal sentence in a state facility if he is already incarcerated. Please forgive my ignorance on this.

That I don't know.

They might not even prosecute if Sandusky is found guilty of the state charges.
 
  • #255
StallarsJay-- you are amazing! Thank you sooooo much for all that hard work. I bookmarked all of them and am certain I'll be referring to them often throughout the course of the trial.

:tyou:
 
  • #256
That I don't know.

They might not even prosecute if Sandusky is found guilty of the state charges.

Somewhere in one of the articles today I read that the total for all state charges is 500 years!

As for Pensfan's question:
i hope they are non-concurrent, but if they aren't and he is found guilty in a federal court, would a federal sentence be non-concurrent? TIA

Surely, the feds wouldn't let him serve a federal sentence in a state facility if he is already incarcerated. Please forgive my ignorance on this.

I've checked some sources and this is the easiest to understand to me:

A federal judge may also order the sentence for a criminal conviction to run concurrently or consecutively with the sentence on a conviction in state court. However, in most cases, the defendant must have been sentenced in state court first. For example, if a defendant is convicted in federal court but has yet to be convicted in state court, the federal judge typically can't order his federal sentence to run concurrently or consecutively with any sentence he might receive in state court.

http://criminal.lawyers.com/Criminal-Law-Basics/How-Do-Multiple-Convictions-Affect-My-Sentence.html

It was made clear in several places that even if the feds make it concurrent, the federal sentence cannot begin until it is ordered. IOW, if JS was convicted by the state and had served 5 years of his state sentence, before a federal conviction and sentence, those 5 years would not be counted in the concurrency (if that makes sense). It also depends on which agency has possession of the prisoner first. If the state sentence ends before the federal, then he would be transfered to the federal facility. This is all to my understanding, so for what it's worth, lol.

For more details this source gives a lot of info which I think basically says the same thing:

http://www.bop.gov/news/ifss.pdf

If somebody gets a better answer please let us know!
 
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I thought this little exchange was interesting and shows JS overruling his lawyer:

The third juror selected was a middle-aged white woman whose husband is a physician in the same medical group in which John McQueary, the father of one of the key witnesses in the case, works.

Defense attorney Joseph Amendola asked to have the woman struck for cause because of that relationship, but Judge Cleland rejected his request.

"We're in Centre County. We're in rural Pennsylvania," Cleland said. "There are these (connections) that cannot be avoided."

It appeared that Amendola was going to then use his first peremptory challenge, but his client stopped him.

"I think she would be fair," Sandusky said, and the woman was accepted.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/06/05/151191/jury-selection-is-underway-in.html#storylink=cpy
 
  • #259
Amendola did, and he threw away an appellant issue in doing so. He did as well by appealing to SCCP to delay. It is hugely unlikely they will say that their own decision was wrong.

Okay, Amendola is a good lawyer, but I don't understand what he's doing.

I will add my commendation to StellarsJay's timeline.

does grasping at straws come to mind?
 
  • #260
love letters, huh?
 
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