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Sandusky Convicted
« on: June 23, 2012, 07:04:40 am »
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A jury convicted Jerry Sandusky of 45 charges of child sex abuse Friday, concluding a trial in which eight men took the witness stand to declare that the former Penn State coach molested them when they were boys. . .

At about 10 p.m., the foreman of the jury stood and read the verdicts, starting with count one, “involuntary deviate sexual intercourse” — “Guilty.”

Sandusky showed no reaction. One of his sons wept and shook his head as he sat behind his mother, Dottie. The Sanduskys had been prepared by their attorney for a guilty verdict after the jury took less than two days to work through a long and complicated list of charges.

After the verdict was read, the prosecutor asked for bail to be revoked. Joe Amendola, Sandusky’s attorney, argued that he be allowed to stay under house arrest. The judge ruled otherwise.

“The bail is revoked,” he said. “Mr. Sandusky, you are remanded to the custody of the Centre County sheriff.” Sandusky stood, did not appear to look at his family, and calmly walked through a doorway, accompanied by three officers. Shortly afterward, he exited the rear of the courthouse, this time handcuffed, and was loaded into a sheriff’s car. An onlooker shouted “Rot in hell!”

When the news of the verdict reached a throng gathered outside the courthouse, a huge cheer went up. . .

The jury, which deliberated for 21 hours over two days, rejected the argument by Sandusky’s attorneys that their client was a good man targeted by a virtual conspiracy among zealous police, prosecutors, news organizations and money-hungry civil litigation lawyers. . .

After the verdict was announced Friday, Amendola revealed to reporters that he was told last week that Matt Sandusky had made a statement to prosecutors about the alleged sexual abuse in the early 1990s. That, Amendola said, changed the defense strategy. Had Sandusky testified, the lawyer said, the prosecution would have put the adopted son on the stand as a rebuttal witness.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jerry-sandusky-found-guilty-of-nearly-all-charges/2012/06/22/gJQABZQHvV_story.html

Minimum recommended sentence under the guidelines is 60 years. Maximum is 445.
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Re: Sandusky Convicted
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2012, 08:06:53 am »
So either way he's fucked. And probably will be in prison considering how rapists are generally treated (or so they say).

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Re: Sandusky Convicted
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2012, 10:25:46 am »
Him, getting to get out of it? My reaction?


 
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Re: Sandusky Convicted
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2012, 11:31:07 am »
His lawyer is appealing.  Says he doesn't understand what he did is wrong.

Ironbite-in other words his lawyer needs to go to jail with him.

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Re: Sandusky Convicted
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2012, 12:48:09 pm »
His  lawyer is a total idiot (see letting him have that interview in which he says that he loves tickling kids in the shower)

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Re: Sandusky Convicted
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2012, 01:13:04 pm »
In defense of the attorney... Ethical rules forbid lawyers from telling clients what (not) to do. We can recommend and lay out the consequences of given actions, but in the end, the final decision is the client's. If Sandusky was determined to do that interview, there is nothing the attorney could have done to stop him. (It's also possible the attorney had no idea Sandusky was going to stick his foot in his mouth like that...)
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Re: Sandusky Convicted
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2012, 01:23:18 pm »

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Re: Sandusky Convicted
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2012, 01:43:27 pm »
that interview in which he says that he loves tickling kids in the shower

Seriously? Seriously??

Ok, sure, I guess enjoying horseplaying around in the shower with underage boys technically isn't necessarily sexual as long as there's no sexual gratification from it, even if it is extremely suggestive, but why the fuck would you say something like this when you're on trial for molesting boys?!

I didn't pay a lick of attention to the trial so I didn't have an opinion on whether he did it either way, but this pretty much... yeah. Self-incriminating much?

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Re: Sandusky Convicted
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2012, 03:26:27 pm »
About this news, I say:

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Re: Sandusky Convicted
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2012, 07:23:56 pm »
The sentencing phase of the trial hasn't begun yet, but I get the feeling that Sandusky will be going away for a long time.
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Re: Sandusky Convicted
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2012, 01:26:52 am »
The sentencing phase of the trial hasn't begun yet, but I get the feeling that Sandusky will be going away for a long time.
I don't know if it was stated in the article above, but the minimum recommended sentence is 60 years. He's gonna die in prison. Given he's 62 and a known child molester, death would be a blessing.