Today is Jerry Sandusky’s 11th Christmas in prison. And on this day, I think it is fair to say I think he is innocent of all the charges that put him in prison.
Sandusky did not get a fair trial, an impartial judge, an ethical prosecutor, or a reasonable defense attorney — and, in the end, 12 jurors got it wrong.
One of the most disturbing aspects of the prosecution of Sandusky is how judges, prosecutors, and Sandusky’s lawyer worked together.
It had taken three years from the time “Victim 1,” Aaron Fisher, first made allegations to the time of Sandusky’s arrest. Fisher kept getting mixed up about what he remembered, and two grand juries hadn’t believed him.
It took time to find other victims, who, like Fisher, had “forgotten” that Sandusky had abused them when they were boys.
Leaking Grand Jury Secrets
In subsequent posts, I will present evidence that prosecutor Frank Fina collaborated with Judge Barry F. Feudale, who presided over the grand jury, and illegally leaked the minutes to newbie reporter Sara Ganim.
Ganim’s Gumption
Ganim’s stories helped ensure potential jurors believed Sandusky was guilty before the trial even started and supported the prosecution in finding new victims — for they only had one at the time.
He was Aaron Fisher, whose ever-changing stories in his first two grand jury appearances led to the grand jury declining to indict Sandusky.
There was only one “eyewitness,” Mike McQueary, who changed his story about what he saw to what he heard and when he heard it.
His ever-changing stories led prosecutors to illegally alter his grand jury testimony to leak a better story to Ganim.
When McQueary complained that he never said what the prosecutors changed his testimony to, Senior Deputy Attorney General Jonelle Eshbach wrote to him in an email, “I know that a lot of this stuff is incorrect and that it is hard not to respond. But you can’t.”
The prosecution illegally changed the grand jury minutes and then illegally leaked those grand jury minutes to the media.
Ganim’s stories, based on altered grand jury testimony, spread the falsehood that Sandusky raped a boy in the showers — something that the boy, as a man, said never happened — and that Paterno and others covered it up to save the Penn State football program.
Her flawed stories caught the attention of national media — and the ensuing media frenzy threatened to destroy Penn State.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) threatened to cancel Penn State’s football season, primarily because its top officials supposedly covered up Sandusky’s alleged abuse of a boy in a shower, an event that never happened.
Even Penn State’s firing of the winningest college football coach in the US, Joe Paterno, along with Penn State’s president, vice president, and athletic director, would not satisfy the media or the NCAA.
Firing Paterno only heightened the media frenzy.
According to some reports, the NCAA threatened to cancel football at Penn State for five seasons, which would cause an estimated $500 million in losses to Centre County, where Penn State is located.
The Trial Judge Did Not Ensure a ‘Fair Trial’
Judge John Cleland expedited the trial to bring Sandusky from indictment in November 2011 to conviction in June 2012 — a mere seven months — and just in time to avert the NCAA’s threatened cancellation of Penn State’s 2012 football season.
Before this was accomplished, something serious stood in the way: Sandusky’s preliminary hearing.
Judge Cleland scheduled it for December 12, 2011. The hearing could have delayed the trial by months or potentially a year — a near-guarantee of no football for 2012.
After the publicity from the leaked grand jury minutes, which included testimony from one alleged victim and one questionable witness, the prosecution gained additional victims: four men who claimed Sandusky had abused them as boys and four men who alleged he had groomed them to be abused.
Seven of the eight changed their stories over time, primarily based on what they claimed were therapist-assisted, recovered repressed memories. Their reports shifted from “Sandusky never abused” them to new memories of abuse that seemed tailored to maximize their anticipated civil litigation claims from Penn State.
At a preliminary hearing, Sandusky’s lawyer could have requested a Frye Hearing to force the court to rule whether recovered repressed memories (RRM) was “junk science” or competent, reliable, and admissible evidence. The results of that hearing could have excluded many or all of the alleged victims.
However, a Frye Hearing could delay the trial by months, with expert testimony and witnesses scheduled in advance.
There was another challenge for the prosecution: At a preliminary hearing, the defense could question the eight victims about mental health issues, the number and type of police interviews they had, what their lawyers enticed them to believe was ahead in civil awards, how much potentially memory-contaminating psychotherapy they received (as evidenced by how much their stories changed after they retained civil lawyers who arranged for memory therapists to treat them).
A preliminary hearing would allow a competent attorney to cross-examine the men, lock in their testimony so that it could not change at the trial, and investigate any contradictions in their stories.
With solid questioning and reasonable investigation, the victims who survived a Frye Hearing might not surpass the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard required to convict in a criminal trial.
Canceling the Preliminary Hearing
Jerry Sandusky was legally entitled to a preliminary hearing, and Judge Cleland set it for December 12, 2011.
However, the night before, Judge Cleland presided over a meeting with three prosecutors, a magistrate judge, and Sandusky’s attorney, Joe Amendola.
Amendola should have told Sandusky or his co-counsel, Karl Rominger, about the meeting. But it was a secret, unrecorded, unofficial, off-the-record meeting. Judge Cleland held the meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn in State College, not at court.
During that meeting, Cleland got Amendola to call Sandusky on the phone and persuade him to waive the preliminary hearing.
Canceled
With the preliminary hearing canceled, Amendola wouldn’t question the witnesses before the trial.
This helped the prosecution and the victim-witnesses.
For instance, Sabastian Paden (victim #9) would testify at the trial that when he was a teen, Sandusky locked him in his soundproof basement nearly every weekend for three years and anally raped him as he screamed for help.
Then the lad would go home, go to school, say nothing to anyone about the rapes, and then show up the following weekend for more locked-in-the-soundproof-basement rapes as he screamed for help.
Had Amendola learned about Paden’s story at the preliminary hearing instead of hearing it at (or just before) the trial, he could have had evidence to refute Paden’s testimony. It would have been easy to prove that there were never locks on the doors to lock someone in the Sandusky basement.
Paden later got $20 million from Penn State for the story he told the jury. Since Amendola waived the preliminary hearing, he was unprepared to challenge Paden’s story in his cross-examination.
Indeed, Amendola did the opposite. He began his cross of Paden with the question “And when did the first sexual contact take place?”
The Sandusky home had no lock outside the door to imprison a teenager in the basement.
Sabastian Paden said Sandusky locked him in the basement, but the basement only had a lock on the inside, which would have allowed Paden to lock his abuser out.
Because the Sandusky house is set on sloping terrain, there is a door in the basement that leads outside. Paden could have escaped anytime from the back door, or even the window.
Another example of how Amendola’s cancellation of the preliminary hearing prejudiced Sandusky’s chance at a fair trial was Fisher’s testimony:
Fisher testified Sandusky’s abuse caused him to become a bedwetter. Had he heard this from testimony at the preliminary hearing, Amendola could have called witnesses who would have testified that Fisher was a bedwetter years before he met Sandusky. These same witnesses, who have since gone on the record with this information, would have also testified that Fisher and his mother made no secret that they hatched a money-driven plot to frame Sandusky and recruited some victims.
Other Deficiencies
Because he waived the preliminary hearing, Amendola did not know enough to demand and acquire a complete list of all interviews conducted in the investigation of two grand juries that produced zero criminal charges.
Amendola failed to demand and acquire psychotherapy records for the witnesses who changed “memory reports” following psychotherapy with therapists.
He did not explore the financial arrangements of therapists with civil lawyers to generate unvetted, uncorroborated “new memories” of abuse that later rewarded these men millions of dollars in settlements.
He failed to call an expert witness to explain to the jury the history of thousands of examples of therapist-induced false memories from the “Memory Wars” malpractice litigation, as well as the hundreds of therapist-induced false memories of abuse debunked by Special Agent Ken Lanning’s FBI Task Force.
He failed to demand and acquire a complete list of all the unrecorded police interviews, where police lied to the victims and guided them, with their civil attorneys present, in crafting their stories. He failed to call a competent investigation methodology expert to expose the repetitive, memory-contaminative interview methods of the police.
And because he canceled the preliminary hearing, Amendola did not even know the names and birthdates of all of the alleged victims, along with the exact dates on which they were supposed to have been abused by Sandusky.
Jury Selection
As the trial date of June 5 drew near, Judge Feudale, who had helped leak the grand jury minutes to the reporter Ganim a year before the trial, ruled that the Sandusky defense team could not have access to the grand jury material until ten days before the first witness was scheduled to testify.
Fina ensured the defense got boxes of documents and recordings containing evidence of Sandusky’s innocence on the eve of trial — without enough time to review them.
In Centre County, where Sandusky’s trial was held, much of the population has a direct Penn State connection — and many potential jurors knew or worked with people involved in the case.
One juror said he had discussed the case with coworkers. He had heard about “more accusations coming forward. It’s more than one or two. It seems like… a case where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”
Amendola said, “I find him acceptable, Judge.”
Several potential jurors admitted they knew Sandusky was guilty based on what they had read in the media.
One juror was friendly with a witness who was to testify against Sandusky. Amendola moved to strike her as a juror. Judge Cleland refused, observing: “We’re in rural Pennsylvania. There are these kinds of social interactions and contacts that just can’t be avoided, and in some ways I think there is a positive aspect of that, too, because people know each other in more than merely superficial ways.”
Another man who worked at Penn State said, “This whole” Sandusky “thing” created problems for him. “And it’s difficult to deal with sometimes.” He had begun to “form some opinions” about the case. “This isn’t like an isolated incident.” He said his wife was “totally convinced of Mr. Sandusky’s guilt,” and that if he found him not guilty, “I would have to do a lot of explaining.”
Amendola moved to strike this juror. Judge Cleland said, “I’m not going to grant that one. I think he was extremely candid and obviously wrestling with this.”
One juror was a student at Penn State. He said he had already decided Sandusky was guilty. “Being a student, I just hear everything… the whole outrage of everything.” When Amendola asked him whether he could face his friends if he voted not guilty, the young man said, “I wouldn’t tell them if that’s how I felt, because that’s not how I feel.”
After selecting the jury, Judge Cleland assured them he was “absolutely confident” that they would be the “conscience of this community.”
During Amendola’s opening statement, he revealed where the trial was going when he said, “This is a daunting task. I’ll be honest with you, I’m not sure how to approach it. The Commonwealth has overwhelming evidence against Mr. Sandusky.”
The jury found Sandusky guilty, and the judge sentenced him to 30-60 years.
After the Trial
Prosecutor Frank Fina lost his job with the Attorney General’s office when he lost his law license for a year and a day for “reprehensible” and “inexcusable” misconduct during the grand jury investigation of the alleged Penn State coverup in the Sandusky matter.
After he got his law license back, he got a job at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, where he was outed as part of a group of state prosecutors and judges who had exchanged pornographic emails on government computers on government time. Fina shared his collection of pornographic images, fat jokes, gay jokes, race-based jokes, and domestic-violence jokes with accompanying porn.
The media that once supported him when he leaked grand jury material turned against Fina and “Porngate.”
Fina resigned from his job with the Philadelphia DA on June 7, 2016, four years after he started the Sandusky trial. The collateral damage of ‘Porngate’ extended to two State Supreme Court Justices — Seamus McCaffery and Michael Eakin. Both were forced to resign.
These two judges were not the only ones who lost their positions.
When Judge Feudale got caught leaking grand jury minutes and other sealed documents, the state removed him from the bench for unethical misconduct and having his judicial objectivity “clouded” by his relationship with prosecutor Fina.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane said about the leaks, “Make no mistake, Judge Feudale’s overriding concern was how to leak sealed documents without getting caught.”
He did get caught.
Hilton Revisited
Judge Cleland’s Hilton Garden meeting remained a secret for four years; then it came out. Cleland was removed from hearing anything related to Sandusky’s appeals for a new trial.
Sandusky is still in prison and still trying to get someone to listen to how he was railroaded into prison by a strange assortment of unethical and self-interested people.
I have yet to begin to reveal the vast body of evidence I have accumulated that points in one direction — Sandusky’s innocence. The time has come to revisit this case, rife with corruption, to set an innocent man free before it is too late.
The Victims
Here is what the “victims” received from Penn:
Aaron Fisher, $7.5 million
Jason Simcisko, $7.25 million
Brett Swisher-Houtz, $7.25 million. (Frank Report needs an adult photo of Houtz – and if anyone has one, please send it frankreport76@gmail.com.)
Michal Kajak, $8.1 million
Zachary Konstas, $1.5 million
Dustin Struble, $3.25 million
Sabastian Paden, $20 million
Ryan Rittmeyer, $5.5 million
And just to conclude on the “fair trial” that Allan Myers, (AKA “Shower Boy”) $6.9 million (did not testify)
Acknowledgments
Several people have been instrumental in uncovering the truth about the Sandusky case.
- Former chair of English at UC Berkeley and author Dr. Frederick Crews has written numerous articles on the Sandusky case.
- Filmmaker/podcaster John Ziegler, who created the important website framingpaterno.com,
- Investigative reporter Ralph Cipriano who has written comprehensive stories for bigtrial.net
- .Author Mark Pendergrast wrote the book, The Most Hated Man in America: Jerry Sandusky and the Rush to Judgment.
- John and Patti Galluppi, friends of the Sandusky’s, who created the document-rich website Justice for Jerry,
- NCIS, Special Agent John Snedden investigated and reported on the case.
- In the story above, I made extensive use of work prepared by R. Christopher Barden, a lawyer and psychologist, who has researched repressed memories and their use in the Sandusky trial.
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Frank, I applaud your incisive, detailed reporting on this complex case where so much malfeasance led to the incarceration of an innocent man. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I knew that Jerry was innocent that June 22, 2012, evening when he was led from the courthouse after the announcement of the verdict. I have since studied many aspects of this case. However, I have never been able to tolerate reference to his accusers as “Victims.” The young men who filed claims and who testified against Jerry are properly termed Accusers or Allegers but not Victims. By definition the term Victim indicates that the person was victimized. None were ever victimized by Jerry Sandusky. If the men accusing Jerry were ever victimized, it was by the prosecutors, psychologists, and attorneys who convinced them that their recovered “memories” were real and that in some way unbeknown to them they had been harmed.
In consideration of the millions of dollars awarded to Jerry’s accusers, perhaps the most appropriate term for these young men would not be accusers or allegers, as I have advocated, but as the Millionaires.
Indubitably, as is clear to anyone familiar with the facts, the real victims in this case are Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, and their respective families.
Spot on!
Did the prosecutors or jury ever visit the Sandusky home where the victim was allegedly held for days- starving, raped, and calling for help? Did anyone ever see if the downstairs was soundproof?
It seems before awarding millions on buried memories they should confirm the facts.
Looks like Armrndola made a deal with the devil.
Long before Mike McQueary reported seeing or hearing anything, the mother of an 11 year old boy reported a naked bear hug of her son by Sandusky in a Penn State locker room shower. Ultimately police decided there was not enough evidence to charge him, but the football coaches and administrators knew about this incident and did nothing. They did not even restrict his access to the locker room with young boys. He continued to shower naked with little boys for years after being accused of inappropriate behavior with one. Who does this except a serial pedophile? There are records of all of this Frank.
Are there some opportunists cashing in? Perhaps. But if one little boy was sexually assaulted Sandusky is exactly where he needs to be. And long overdue.
it wasnt that there wasnt enough evidence in the ‘99 shower episode, it was that the boy was interviewed multiple times about the shower and said nothing sexual happened and he thought of jerry as a father figure! they remained close until the kid learned he could make millions by lying in 2012
I was well prepared for the plandemic thanks to the obviously fake Sandusky case. (Me and my kids are unvaxxed despite immense pressure). 35 accusers paid $120+ million without a shred of real evidence or 1 contemporaneous report. Anyone who believes Sandusky is guilty likely also believes in the obviously fake moon landings (next one will coincidently just keep getting pushed back for the rest of your lifetime – answer why did it take Artemis 1 month to circle around the moon and come back when it took apollo 1 week to land and return), lee harvey oswald shot jfk (when it was obviously the pink panther jackie o, just look at frame 313 of the zapruder film where the bullet and brain fragments go directly up in the air; and no it wasn’t the result of his philandering), or GWB just happened to be reading a book at an elementary school on 9/11, wmds, safe and effective vaccines, the unfederal us reserve, etc, etc. Sandusky is one of the best human beings on the face of the planet, but as always the opposite of the truth is reported in the fake news media. And the Sheeple will continue to believe it all…
Douche doesn’t fall far from the bag apparently. Are these false allegations too? Really Frank? https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/09/15/us/jerry-sandusky-son-pleads-guilty/index.html
At best a few of them jumped on for the gravy train. I believe the first one 100%. It doesn’t really matter what you “believe” Frank. You may have helped some sexually assaulted women get their story out but you appear to have zero instinct when it comes to sexually abused kids. This crap in here about them doing it because they were poor. They were targeted BECAUSE they were poor. The only difference between Sandusky and this guy is one is free to do it some more. https://crosscut.com/2017/09/why-it-took-five-victims-to-bring-down-ed-murray
Amy, I would recommend reading Frank’s other articles on the Sandusky case and listening to John Ziegler’s podcast, “With the Benefit of Hindsight.”
Bullshit
“Ganim’s stories helped ensure potential jurors believed Sandusky was guilty before the trial even started”
I thought they don’t let anyone on a jury who knows about the case already?
And also just because victims were more willing to come forward because they knew there could be a payout doesn’t mean that they weren’t victimized. I would be more likely to endure the trauma of testifying about sex abuse if I knew I could get some compensation for my pain and suffering. Who wouldn’t?
Except many are on record, in particular the young man in the McQueary episode, saying Sandusky didnt abuse them. Jason Simcisko said he didnt believe allegation to police/investigators and hoped Jerry would be found innocent. Then you have the son Matt who flipped after constantly stating support for his dad and wanting to hold a press conference that the allegations were ball crap. There was no “victim 8” and Ryan Rittmeyer said he was abused by Sandusky in a silver convertible when theres no evidence of Jerry owning one or renting one. There’s also rumor that Jerry never even met Rittmeyer prior to the trial or ever knew who he was.
It is not uncommon for child sexual abuse victims to either bond with their abusers and want to protect them, fear retribution from their abusers, or both. Child sex abuse victims are manipulated by their abusers not to tell the truth. Jerry is a master manipulator. Thank god the jury saw through it.
For people who like court and crime dramas (perhaps fans of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul), there’s the With the Benefit of Hindsight podcast series that must be up to a hundred hours by now. It’s full of astounding details with lots of inside sports and media stuff. There’s also lots of interviews with people like Franco Harris and Bob Costas (called in on his own to be included):
https://www.framingpaterno.com/interviews
He is innocent.
Is it really possible yea eight poor men lied to make millions ?
Our justice system is so broken in so many ways. I was convinced of Sandusky’s guilt. I’m no trying to wrap my head around that an innocent man is in jail. Not only an innocent man but a man that truly tried to help troubled youth. So many people have suffered in this case!
If he is innocent I hope that he will be able to walk free before he passes. The stress of being in prisoned at that age has to take years off of his life.
As I read more of the story, the more I lean to believing he is in fact, innocent.
Are you insane? What kind of grown man showers and wrestles with naked little boys? Takes little boys not related to him on solo overnight hotel room trips? These are things he ADMITS to doing, over and over again. Get your head out of your ass.
Is it really possible that every single person lied? Hard to believe so many people were manipulated into making JS guilty. Can’t see it. If it was 1 or 2, maybe?
Every single person lied…..FACT.
You didn’t read this report. All of these alleged victims lawyered up and were told what to say. It’s what their attorneys set out to do. AJ Dillon the fake accuser could have collected to but couldn’t go through with it.
Their stories changed once money was available. That is pretty easy to see. Not one person made a prompt report of being abused. Zero dates provided. Not one. And they just continued to hang out with him, time after time, as teenage kids? That, to me, is even more eye opening. Impossible to defend yourself against accusations like this. Zero evidence. If anything, the evidence is in Sandusky’s favor, and it’s not even close.
There is one word for how this case was handled as well as the players in this travesty. The “players” include “judge Cleland,” the two prosecutors (Fina and McGettigan,) ex-governor of PA Tom Corbett, the multimillionaire attorney for the ‘victims,’ (Shubin,) asst DA at the time Eshbach, ‘therapist’ Cynthia McNab, the LYING ‘victims,’ and so many others. The word is DISGUSTING. Another word is UNETHICAL.
Amendola may be the worst. I wonder how much he banked?
I am just speechless!
This article discussed me!! The freakin corrupt legal system we have here in the USA!! God please help us all!!! How do these people sleep at night?
On a pillow made of money is how, encased with a lack of morals and disregard for the truth.
Why is it that you feel the need to discredit teens from under privileged backgrounds? Why are they deemed not credible by you when they’ve suffered severely?
Maybe they didn’t report it because our society favors the wealthy while man??
How dare you try to discredit these kids who finally got the Justice they deserved!!
You obviously didn’t read the report. They were NOT KIDS at the trial. They were men who were told what to say. Please open your eyes. The report shows pictures of the fake accusers. There were NO KIDS.
Well put. Thank you for getting it.
“… For a while, the power of the FMSF was such that it seemed that the only people in the world with false memories were those who reported child abuse. It also seemed, again for a while, that their accused abusers could only possess accurate memories when they denied the abuse occurred. That this was swallowed by the public, the media and many professionals bears scrutiny.
While it is not unusual for a syndrome to get its own foundation, it is unusual for a false, or non-existent syndrome to get its own foundation. Somehow the False Memory Syndrome managed to do just that. The how and why of this incredible feat deserves considerable thought and exploration. It is the task not only of the complex trauma and dissociation field, but also the task of the media, the legal profession and many other areas of mental health to explore this. …”
https://news.isst-d.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-false-memory-syndrome-foundation/
What does a lawyer and psychologist R. Christopher Barden know about “The False Memory Syndrome Foundation”?
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15299732.2022.2028219
This story breaks it down so eloquently. How these rich men’s egos are going to get them in the end. Sandusky should be released, Imo. To torcher this man for the sake of football is morally wrong.
Frank Parlato is perhaps the one man in America who can take this on and see it through and he has a good team. My prediction is Sandusky goes free.
You bet!! He’s brilliant and sees things through on every case he investigates. They should all be running for cover!
I’ve been following John Ziegler’s Twitter feed on this case for over five years and watched him try to get major journalists and authors interested in the case. I’ve seen him shepherd exposes for Newsweek, the Washington Post, USA Today, … only to have them squelched at the last minute. The latest effort at the Insider (interview starts at about an hour in):
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-death-of-journalism-episode-fifty-eight-all-in-on-iowa/id1562078872?i=1000613210665
The Gift of the Maji revealed in the selfless labor of FR and the many authors listed who have devoted countless hours to save the soul of their fellow man.
Powerful and timely. Praying the Sandusky and Paterno families can breathe easier knowing the truth has come to light.
Amendola is no different than many attorneys out there. The attorneys work with the judges to weigh the case and consider personal and political interests. They set up a playbook and execute accordingly.
Sandusky didn’t know what was happening to him and by the time he did, it was all over.
The 7 month timeline to take a man’s life is insane. Attorneys and judges work in lockstep to fuel their own interests and line their wallets.
Unsuspecting member of the public enter with a blind belief that courts are honorable places. They’re the exact opposite.
Thank you for devoting yourself to bring light and truth to this case. The only way is public exposure and there’s no better publication that FR.
Can you take a video of the alleged basement where the victim was starved and raped? Has any investigator been to that residence to test the alleged victims claims?
I know we could hear everything in our house growing up and a similar layout. I don’t know the area the house is in but is there a place the kid could have walked to for help?
I get as a poor kid you don’t want to go up against a secure white man with far more power than you. Wondering if the house was in a rural area or in familiar area for this then teen.
If I were to rape someone in my basement I would 1st secure my victims mouth. Before I let them go back home, I would give them treats and bathe them. I’d be sure to keep a close eye on my basement fuck toy. You bet my victims sweet little white ass would remember too.
Is this the real Peaches or
Kevin Spacey?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6wcCewWiQPE
John Ziegler got Matt Lauer to do an interview there:
Did mainstream news outlets tell us the whole story? I think I remember the news coverage being one-sided — like there was no question that he was guilty. The description of the video says;
Did the Today Show ever air that interview?
Beside the lawyers and the alleged victims, who benefited from that case?
Was it dirty politics, a huge mistake or some kind of a “psy-op” to fool the public?
Wow! Besides showing how Sandusky’s life was sacrificed, the jury selection in this case proves why even with juries- there is a high likelihood of injustice.
It’s scandalous who they permitted to be on the jury. The individuals made it clear they were bias and their opinions pre-determined. They were practically asking NOT to be considered as a juror but these are the exact people the judge and prosecutors needed – and secured to seal Sandusky’s fate and take Paterno down as well.
I hope Steve Pigeon reads this- and all who criticized Steve for taking the 8 month plea deal in his case. There is too much corruption eroding our court system. When your life is on the line, lowest risk is the best you can hope for.
If Cleland was disciplined for conduct during or related to the Sandusky trial, how can the verdict against possibly stand?
This is an outrage.
Brilliant work.
You blew the case open. I followed it at the time and media did not include half of this info. The off the record meeting at the hotel where Amendola sacrificed Sandusky’s pre trial hearing seems reason enough for a new trial.
Failing to have that – even if he convinced Sandusky, violated his due process and prejudiced the outcome of this sham of a trial.
Amendola’s affirming remarks regarding acts of sexual abuse shows who he was playing for. He should be disbarred for this conduct.
We need an overhaul of our judicial process. There is no Justice.
Amazing work and one that will give Sandusky the new trial he deserves!
Fantastic reporting of the facts. Anyone who still thinks Sandusky is guilty after reading the Frank Reports does not have an open mind. This case needs a new trial NOW.