Jerry Sandusky Sex Abuse Trial: Sandusky Convicted On 45 Counts, Sent To Jail Immediately
Bellefonte, PA- not subject to Judge John Cleland’s order, which is likely a violation of our First Ammendment Rights Under the US Constitution, www.blinkoncrime.com has confirmed the jury has reached unanimous verdicts in this case, which are being read in open court, and so far, they are guilty.
Update: Sandusly convicted of 45 of 48 counts
check back to www.blinkoncrime.com for updated verdict information.
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I love this article. It opened up my eyes as a parent.
How to empower our children to ‘own’ their bodies.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/20/living/give-grandma-hug-child/index.html?iref=obnetwork
I apologize Miss B…..I was pulling back on posts and I still intend to. This is for our cherubs and the survivors.
Please email this and get it out there. It’s just that crucial, imho <3
PS….to Mom3.0…..thank you for all your love and friendship, dear sweet friendy.
Now we can move to part two in the cleanup of this mess.
This could have been cleared up fourteen years ago if those in charge at Penn. State had not covered it up. We can only hope that the statement made by AG Linda Kelly last evening will come to pass in regards to those that enabled this evil man.
She called on all LE and other agencies to be forthcoming regarding investigations involving abuse of children. This could signal a change in the way all of society looks at these crimes.
Let the light of truth and goodness shine through the evil we have witnessed and make our world a safer place for all people.
You’ve all written so well and so passionately. I am grateful for this forum of advocates. I can’t list you all, but you’re helping with the healing already. Your words have connected with me. ty.
Aside to erose and Rose–ALl I was looking for in the first minutes of the Sanduskys’ exit from court was a snarkish attempt at humor regarding the spouse’s crossed toes. Left phalanges completely crossed and right toes nearly so.
http://photos.pennlive.com/patriot-news/2012/06/jerry_sandusky_trial_jury_deli.html
Oh, no. I may be onto something. It’s the Caper of The Crossed Toes and the Wide-Stance Thumb. J. Sandusky in handcuffs looks like he’s still crossing his fingers.
http://photos.pennlive.com/patriot-news/2012/06/jerry_sandusky_trial_verdict_9.html
Rose,
The proof text, probably blasphemous (and not seaeking my lowest level either) was just something, possibly from Proverbs, like: “she who crosses her toeths, dost receive double-crosseth equally.” Or, er, uh?
Yet, what I would have hoped for in Dorothy Sandusky’s character is found in Proverbs 3:18:
“She is a tree of life to those who embrace her; those who lay hold of her will be blessed.” (NIV, 1984). The ‘She’ here is also translated as Wisdom.
May we all be granted such.
Sandusky juror speaks out; judge denied lawyers’ request to resign
http://niagara-gazette.com/local/x399013755/Sandusky-juror-speaks-out-judge-denied-lawyers-request-to-resign
I seriously cannot even believe I just read that. I mean is this guy for real?
B
Thanks erose for the link.
Lawyers suposedly wanted to resign from the case by citing a lack of time to prepare. That may be what they told the court in the motion, but after seven months the real truth may be that they did not see any way to win for JS. This may explain some of their behaviors that Blink mentioned.
will be very interesting to see how long those motions and answers stay sealed.
B
To: Ragdoll: Great article and advice!
Number One:
To Mr. Amendola: Jerry just didn’t start doing this at age 50 …he’s been doing it all his life..but no little boy had the nerve to say anything before this..and the statute of limitations has long since expired for those who were the first.
About Dottie/Sarge:
annals at June 23 – 1:48 pm hit the nail on the head!
Dottie is TOO THROUGH with Jerry!!
She shed not one tear at the verdict …and she’ll keep up the sham for a bit …but then it is ALL over.
I have long wondered if the statement “when we knew we couldn’t have children” meant that Jerry had NO interest in her in bed ..and even if the marriage was consumated ….Jerry always went to bed before Dottie …and I doubt there was much conjugal relationship after that.
Dottie – how do you live with yourself?? knowing that perhaps you could have stopped the torture????
I’ll never understand this as long as I live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the link to the article Ragdoll.
This is a wise mother IMO. Adults need to learn to allow a child to make the decision about a hug or a kiss to a family friend or to a distant relative that they seldom see. This teaches the child to believe in themselves and that they can choose rather than be told what they should do.
@ connie
Thank you, sweet friendy! XO I sincerely hope the link gets passed around via email or facebook <3
@ ATG
I knew you’d see the greater wisdom in the article. You’d think it would be common sense to teach this ideal to our children. The talks I’ve had, generated from this piece, tells me it’s a foreign and much needed concept to embrace. It certainly opened my eyes. It could very well prevent or overwhelmingly reduce sexual assaults and rape against children.
Isn’t that the whole premise, to stop pedophiles and call them out before harm can be done? Empowering our children to recognize they have a say in who and how, is a God given right!
Big hugs to my fave TGF! XO
@Blink. No way these 2 grandstander lawyers were withdrawing for real.
AmenD is given to dramatic flair–say a histrionic PD–so imo it was
his way of dramatizing what he hoped would be the only possible appealable issue–
inadequate time to prepare on a rocket trial schedule. Otherwise no
appeals court would disturb the triers of fact on a credibility of
witnesses case
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/sports/ncaafootball/no-doubt-about-jerry-sanduskys-guilt-juror-says.html?pagewanted=all
I sensed a common theme. Was this on the power point?
This man’s life is at stake,” said Joe Amendola,…
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/06/21/3237202/joe-amendola-this-mans-life-is.html#storylink=cpy
Jerry Sandusky’s friend: ‘A man’s life is at stake’
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/06/18/3232853/friend-a-mans-life-is-at-stake.html#storylink=cpy
The friend is (Wayne) Skip Dreibelbis
True Blue Auctions was founded by Skip Dreibelbis of State College, PA. Skip is a native of State College, PA and was a placekicker on the Penn State National Championship Football team.
Skip attended Geneva College&Juniata College&has a B.S. in Secondary Education and Social Studies.
He served in the Marine Corps as a police officer and Pennsylvania Army National Guard as an IT Specialist.
Gotta wonder if Skip is kin to Galen and Nancy.
The Post-Gazette reported Sandusky had 16 character witnesses. I count 17, 18 if Ms. Gross is included. Just thought we need a list to know who to check out and decide if we think they were either duped, swayed, or involved, IMO, (now that the toe game is over.)
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/state/16-character-witnesses-have-testified-for-jerry-sandusky-641120/#ixzz1ygZ2n8GV
Trial Day’s 5 and 6
Richard Anderson. He is a state college resident and currently retired. He played on the same football team with Sandusky at Penn State. After that he coached at several colleges and came back to coach at Penn State in 1973. He said he and Sandusky always kept in touch. They worked together from 1973 to 1984. Anderson left for a while and he returned in 1990 and retired this past January.
Dr. Linda Caldwell. She is has been employed by PSU since 1995. She helped organize the Golf for L.I.F.E. Mentor Program, a program that one of the victims was involved in. She founded the Community Links program. {I read on CDT that she was the emergency contact for victim #4]
David Brent Pasquinelli. He is a political consultant/campaign manager. He worked as a fundraiser for the Second Mile from the October of 2007 to the Spring of 2009. He worked with Sandusky and another employee to raise $7 million. He has known Sandusky for several decades and participated in several Second Mile activities. Their offices were close to each other and worked together on “almost a daily basis.” He said he took the job because he thought it was a good cause. “I’ve always been kind of a sucker for good causes,” he said.
Brett Witmer, a Bellefonte resident. He is a teacher in the Bellefonte school district and teaches second grade. He has known Sandusky since 1999. He interned with the Second Mile, which is how he met Sandusky. He later worked for AmeriCorps. He met Victim 4 when he was in this capacity.
http://www.abc27.com/story/18813951/trial-notes-day-five
[Booker T.] Brooks said he worked with Sandusky until Brooks left in 1983 for a job at Oregon State. He returned to State College three years ago.
Clinton Mettler, a former Second Mile participant who served in the Army and did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, who said he stayed at Sandusky’s house three times and went to church with him. Mettler thought Sandusky was honest, truthful and law-abiding, he told Amendola.
http://www.centredaily.com/2012/06/18/3233258/prosecutors-drop-one-felony-count.html
Tenessa Anne Inpoofe takes the stand. She is from Bellefonte. She has known Sandusky for about 17 years. She met him through The Second Mile and went for several summers. “Enjoyed every minute of it,” she said.
Joshua C. Green from Milesburg takes the stand. He is 33 years old. He said he has known Sandusky since 1990 or 1991. He was involved for three years.
Megan Lynn Rash takes the stand. She is from Milesburg. “You look about 12, how old are you?” Rash is 25 years old and pregnant. She was in the Second Mile for about four years and started when she was in elementary school. She said it was an amazing experience. Rash enrolled in the military after high school and spent a year in Iraq. She was honorably discharged a year ago. Rash has known Victim 4 for about 18 years. She said he is known well in the community and has a reputation. She said his reputation was that, “He was a dishonest person and embellished stories.” On cross-examination, Rash revealed that she was related to a young man whose name has been mentioned several times throughout the trial but who died in 2008. We don’t know how he died.
Joyce Porter is called to the stand. She has been sitting in the courtroom. She lives in State College with her husband in children. She has 14 children, 9 naturally and the others by adoption and foster care. She said she would see Sandusky a couple of times a year. Porter said she was good friends with Dottie.
Phil Mohr is called to the stand. He has been sitting in the courtroom. He is from State College and is now retired. He was an affiliate professor of microbiology at Penn State. He has known Sandusky on a social level for about 35 years. He and his wife used to be neighbors with the Sandusky’s, they go to the same church …
Jack Willenbrock is called to the stand. He is from State College and is a retired PSU professor of civil engineering. They lived on the same road as the Sandusky’s and their children grew up together. He said their children would play together growing up. They attended the same church.
Lance Mehl from St. Clairsville, Ohio takes the stand. He was a defensive end and linebacker for PSU from 1976-1979. Afterwards, he was a linebacker for the New York Jets for four years. He has been a probation officer for a little over 15 years. He met Sandusky in 1975 and has stayed in touch through the golf tournament.
John Lewis Wetzler from Bellefonte takes the stand. He is a retired social studies teacher and guidance counselor. He has known Sandusky for 25-30 years. He was also a football coach and would go to Penn State for football clinics and camps.
Kelly Simco takes the stand. She said she knows Sandusky well and has known him for 20 years; she is 28 now. She met Sandusky at the Second Mile. She didn’t spend time with Sandusky personally until she was much older. Simco said she went to college: “Thanks to Jerry, half my tuition was paid,” she said.
Dr. James Martin is called. He attended PSU as an undergrad and then went on to medical school. He was on the PSU wrestling team for five years. He won one national championship. He became very good friends with Sandusky while was at PSU. The wrestling and football team did their weight lifting in the same facility. Martin did a one month rotation at Penn State during medical school and during that time he stayed at Sandusky’s home around 2003. He said Sandusky gave him a watch from the Fiesta Bowl. The Sandusky’s had a graduation party for him at their house and Jerry made him a photo album of different memories during his years at college – of times he and his now-wife ate dinner at the Sandusky home, etc… At the back of the album there was a poem written in Sandusky’s handwriting and signed by his whole family. It read:
“Thanks for the memory; Thanks for being so warm and friendly; thanks for having a warm and special touch; … thanks for being there when we’re down … thanks for bringing so much love; thanks for being you.”
Elana Steinbacher is called to the stand. She now lives in North Carolina and has three grown children. She’s known the Sandusky’s for 47 years. She said in college she tried to set Sandusky up with her friends. She said she stayed in the Sandusky home about 8-11 times a year. “I could have stayed in motels…but I wanted to stay with Dottie and Jerry to be motivated and inspired.”
http://www.abc27.com/story/18824380/trial-notes-day-six
19 and 20
Chad Rexrode from Pittsburgh is called to the stand. He was involved with The Second Mile from ages 10 to 15. He knew Sandusky. Rexrode said once he moved to Pittsburgh with his mom because of her job and once they moved Sandusky stayed in touch. “I never had a father in my life and he was like a father-figure to me…he just wanted to keep in touch with me to see how I was doing.” He said Sandusky would keep up on his grades and take him to football games, etc… He said he stayed at Sandusky’s home several times. He is originally from Chambersburg, Pa. He and his mom moved to State College so she could go to PSU.
David Hilton from Lancaster County. He is 21-years-old and met Sandusky through The Second Mile. He met Sandusky in 5th grade at The Second Mile camp. He met him again at a speaking engagement in Hilton’s town. “I got a phone call one day and we ended up going swimming…the second time I ever met him…and we just hung out from there.” Hilton said has been to Sandusky’s home more than 50 times. He traveled with Sandusky to San Francisco for about a week . “He was definitely a father figure. He’s helped me out with a lot of things academic-wise.” Hilton said he was behind in school because his parents were deaf.
http://www.abc27.com/story/18835614/trial-notes-day-seven
@Beejay, Did you catch this one?
Rominger calls Henry Lesh from Boalsburg, Pa.
He was involved in The Second Mile golf program. He said he was involved in the overall organization. The defense provides them with documents. One is a letter from The Second Mile thanking McQueary for his involvement in a Second Mile golf tournament in June 2003.
http://www.abc27.com/story/18835614/trial-notes-day-seven
I don’t get the “finger/toe”thing y’all are talking about.
Sorry.
Honestly, we were just overanalyzing, to an extent.
B
Predatory Sandusky is now where he belongs while still on our earth. His wife is now left with the adopted children some or all who she did not protect. She will not have an easy way to go from here. She may be on the surface of her heart glad she will not have to deal with her predatory husband anymore. She may say she had no idea what was going on in her home with these young victims but she knows what she knows and words of denial are just words. Someday she will ask for help and no one will hear her. Karma can be a bitch.
Blink you did a dy-no-mite job on this case. Your contributors on this case were awesome. This is such a hard case to look at. The rape of innocent boys who just wanted someone to love them. Innocent boys who learned early the lost of trust. Innocent boys who could not avoid these crimes that would no doubt define their entire life. The young man who could not stop crying when this Predator received his just reward of GUILTY for harming him when he was an innocent child dug into my soul.
I thank you. I am very proud of the readers/contributors to the research of this case, as they should be.
This is far from over, however.
B
http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2012/06/jerry-dottie-and-matt-sandusky.html
Ragdoll
Thanks for the hugs. Decision making is what develops our ability to reason from experience.
There is no scientific proof of this, but I believe that children should be allowed to make decisions about themselves and their friends at an early age. This IMO builds the frontal lobes and enhances their chances for success in life. The more decisions one makes, the better one gets at choosing correctly.
Parents should talk with their children about how they see things around themselves. Every child is as different as snowflakes are from each other. This is one of the toughest things in parenting.
Ganim’s lengthy article this morning covers a lot of familiar territory and addresses some real concerns about PSU’s current and future health.
She reveals that Shultz told a doctor that Spanier had met with Sandusky regarding McQueary’s 2001 report.
http://mobile.pennlive.com/advpenn/db_287325/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=truUapmV
Ganim also states that Spanier is returning “in the spring” to teach at Penn State.
The bulk of the feature story details the numerous ways Penn State has been financially impacted and questions the potential loss of Federal aid, due to Clery Act violations, and the withdrawal of research grants.
Despite the slim attribution, Ganim’s work points to the challenges ahead for the profoundly scarred university and the shellshocked town known as Happy Valley.
Spanier is no more returning to PSU as an educator than I am. I admit I have interviewed folks that have been colleagues of his in other higher learning institutions and he had a solid reputation.
This case is going to hamper his future employment efforts, imo. I also believe strongly that a McLeary act violation is looming. Does it bother anyone else how absolutely epic this mess is and DID not have to be?
Remembering Gricar, btw.
B
B
The list of defense witnesses posted by erose is interesting.
JS was a homosexual pedaphile. Girls and women were not his interest.
He was a master at picking young boys that would be easy prey. He would groom them perhaps for months and then make his advances.
IMO he was this way from the time he was a teenager. While these people do evil acts regarding young children, they will conceal their activities from the public by envolving themselves in church or worthwhile chartable causes in order to build a facad of respectability.
Ugh, ATG, your words just gave me a gut bomb.
Visceral reaction to your words “facad of respectability.”
Thank you for that. I was trying to reconcile the good works he did do against the tragedies left in his wake. There is no reconciling “a facad of respectability.”
sorry–it’s *facade*–typijng too fast
Blink, I’m wondering what is a McLeary act violation?
Ugh.
C L E R Y act, freaking auto correct kwerty, lol.
No wonder you were wondering. My bad.
The Clery Act in short is the Federal Law obligating any higher learning institution receiving state and or Federal funding to report sex crimes and other detailed offenses to it’s matriculation and police.
It is enforced by the US Dept of Education, and it is because that body sought information in this case, it was initially refused because PSU responded that certain information could only be shared with LE.
Admittedly, that is a problem in the act itself, but I suspect PSU will get a hand slap for that as the NCAA and the US Govt is now investigating it in tandem.
Jeanne Clery was a Lehigh University student who was raped and murdered in her dorm in 1986.
http://www.securityoncampus.org/index.php?Itemid=60&id=271&option=com_content&view=article
B
Blink- Roy Gricar has been on my mind since the verdict was announced- I hope the truth comes out.
Thank you Word Girl
Don’t worry about the misspelled word. I did it too; didn’t see it until I submitted the comment. Need to edit for spelling a little better. And *envolve* is misspelled too; should be involve.
Our brass quintet played a lot for churches. One of the church pastors were we played was involved with a 16 year old boy. This man talked and generally behaved as one would expect. Two of the congregation caught on and called the police. He is doing twenty years. It happens a lot more than we think.
Yes Blink, I said it when it was discovered. This event is going to affect people all over the state and beyond. We cannot guess what will be found and the penalities that will be given.
The NCAA may do to Penn. State what they did to SMU for paying players. They could not have a team for four years. Their progam has never recovered.
I am glad to see you mention Spanier. Your thoghts are the same as mine. This guy is finished as a educator unless he finds work at a small out of the big leagues college.
Spanier will do extremely well. He’ll negotiate a settlement with PS for retirement & lump sum as they broke his contract pre-indictment or formal fact finding. He’ll continue to make a high salary in a Freeh-type firm on DOD or Homeland Security issues, connected there by friends of friends. Thus ensuring silence.
I respectfully disagree Rose if there is any evidence of a Clery violation or of impropriety in his duties as the president. Nobody is going to want that heat.
B
If DOE sanctions PS under Clery,
you may expect next year’s
majority You Know Which Party
Congress to get rid of
Clery Act if not DOEd
is my prediction.
See pgs 100–103, esp 102 & 103 of Touched. If you believe the writer. Pull up my earlier posts. Dr. Fox is the doctor who wrote the recommendation on Matt. Rose is right; his placement was an “exception” and thru the juvie system.
http://books.google.com/books?id=DhURgPDxVhgC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&dq=The+second+Mile+timothy+janocko&source=bl&ots=DcJ-esuFU4&sig=KFL_ET1rNiY2aogNp9vjosEH80Q&hl=en&sa=X&ei=W-PAT9C3DOOe6AGWvcGYCg&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=The second Mile timothy janocko&f=false
Look for more on Tim Janocko, football coach Clearfield High; also onetime head of Clearfield chapter of TSM; on Board of TSM. Also the one who went to detention to see Matt while JS was in Calif; and got Matt’s agreement to be placed with the Sanduskys.
Might want to look further into some of these folks. Some locals paint a pic of Janocko that sounds a bit “histrionic”. See Clearfield PA forum here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:08F5W55kwUYJ:http://www.topix.com/forum/city/clearfield-pa/TSAUR96KMTQQC6F98/p2%2Btim+janocko+clearfield+matt+sandusky&hl=en&gbv=2&gs_l=serp.1.2.0l2j0i30l2.564955.570153.0.573480.48.23.0.2.2.12.129.1789.17j5.23.0…0.0.SOH3cJ0x36w&ct=clnk
Or here, not cached:
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/clearfield-pa/TSAUR96KMTQQC6F98/p2
IMHO, we need to check into all who testified. Some might have been testifying out of self-protection. One defense witness would’ve had the same caseworker pool as the Sandusky’s for their non-bio kids. Check out their addy. Lots of that I posted earlier in unrelated posts.
I guess Word Girl has pulled the list of names from that one letter of JS’ and looking to fill in the blank of that redacted male name in another of those letters (the male who was so disappointed when Victim 4 failed to show for him)? I’m looking at the “gang” Victim 4 and Jer hung with. Some were PSU football players; some kids; some–what else?
Still not satisfied about Dr. Jim Martin, former PSU wrestler and close friend/visitor at Sandusky home. Look at an early photo of him.
Working off screen. Hugs to all.
Ganim pulled a LOT of Matt’s history together here:
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/03/jerry_sandusky_adopted_son_had.html
Gricar could’ve helped us out. Grine (the elder) was DA and hired Gricar on part-time. After Grine became Judge, Gricar became DA. Betcha he knew the Grines well.
No doubt.
B
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/achenblog/post/jerry-sandusky-trial-the-verdict/2012/06/25/gJQAB4Qj1V_blog.html
Very well written post I wanted to share if Ok with Blink. The firsthand account of being in the courtroom when the verdict was read right down to the small details of the crowds roar, felt like I was there.
OT, but
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Word Girl says:
June 24, 2012 at 9:03 pm
sorry–it’s *facade*–typijng too fast
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“typijng too fast” is such a classic, that it brought a smile despite the subject matter (and a brief ponder as to whether it was intentional).
@Blink. I will hope you are correct!
I guess I just see PA as strictly construing
employment contracts, depends on his contract’s
actual language. And I’m too used to seeing connected
people in certain DOD and contractor circles (like Ollie North?) make out well,
better than before,
in new careers as pundits, writers, gov’t contractor moguls.
Did you see one of the comments on today’s Ganim piece on
Rominger’s radio station colleagues. Those circles are the
type that will put Spanier to work like a phoenix. Maybe I’m just a jaded Southerner
from a time when patronage mattered.
Do you think there will be more people charged?
I do not for once second believe JS is the only person involved. I firmly believe that there is a reason so many people were willing to cover up and it ain’t just football.
oops dere goes anotha rubbah tree plant!
Maybe I should list the links separately?
I’ll try for the third time prize.
Graham Spanier, I agree, Rose, will leverage his retirement and settlement (severance may have already been paid). He will continue to work in federal government where he is now employed for a few more years, until he retires to the lecture and consulting circuit.
Spanier will turn 64 on July 18, 2012. Has been highly paid throughout his career, even as Provost at Oregon State.
Spanier earned an annual salary of $545,016 while President of Penn State. His compensation was ranked third among his peers at surveyed public universities nationwide, and was the fifth-highest university pay in America, a total annual package in excess of $800,000.
Spanier’s wife is/was a professor of English a Penn State: “Sandra Spanier is the general editor of the Hemingway Letters Project and is listed on the Department of English’s website as a tenure-line faculty member.”
Clery Act violations can take up two years to resolve and Spanier may be sanctioned, but imo PSU will pay the $27,500 fine for each act.
By that time, I think he’ll be retired with homes at the Oregon Coast, New York, and Europe, possibly even ‘home’ in South Africa.
He has been subpoenad by the Federal Grand Jury and has refused to meet with the Freeh group, hired by the BOT. He has filed a civil suit to have access to emails from the very employer he was fired from.
I am certainly open to being wrong, and alternative information, but we know he is already being protected from the scope of the gj inquiry or this would never have escalated.
Translation: He wants protection where there is none being offered. I am missing how that translates to further employment opportunity?
I do agree with you if he has information that progress the current inquiries, and because I do not think he is the little fish here.
B
Gosh darnit.
Still didn’t link you up.
info found at wikipedia x 2, the collegian archives, the philadelphia daily article titled “Penn State: The Power and The Kingdom” by John Baer.
Another factoid we’ve discussed earlier: (now) Judge Pamela Ruest presided over the Samuel Boob murder trial (Matt’s brother Ron Heichel convicted). She also was guardian ad litem for Matt:
“Then, when Ron Heichel’s murder case went to trial, there was another intersection. The judge assigned to the case was the same woman who had been the guardian for Matt when Matt was in foster care with the Sanduskys. By then she had been elected judge.”
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/03/jerry_sandusky_adopted_son_had.html
Ron’s trial for murder of Boob:
http://off2dr.com/smf/index.php?topic=11681.0
Misc factoid: Tom Ridge and President Judge David E. Grine went to Dickinson School of Law together. IIRC, Ridge was class of 72 and Grine class of 73.
for anyone who needs quick, though incomplete bios on some of these centre cty judges, here’s a link we’ve had up long ago:
http://www.townandgown.com/2012/01/order-in-the-court/
You’ll see that Judge Pamela Ruest was with McQuaide Blasko before she became a judge. IDK if she was with other firms as well.
Is it possible there was a quid pro quo agreement (between Supervisor JoeP plus AthDir and Gricar) that Gricar would forget about it in 1998 if Sandusky were retired & controlled? That is, maybe someone can testify, maybe even Jerry, that JoeP knew then in 1998 and it was the reason JS was out. And maybe football players themselves had complained to JoeP in those days.’Anyway, Gricar gets wind Jerry is still up to old tricks and Gricar threatens to out Penn State football preretirement. What then?
JJinPhil says D Grine was a State College policeman in the 60s before moving up to the bench.
Here’s another State College investigator who did same move up from State College investigator to Judge:
http://www.centredaily.com/2012/04/30/3179885/longtime-district-judge-to-hang.html
Did they learn something as investigators that gave them
leverage to change careers, aka promotion potential?
interesting how closely this District Judge worked with school truants. Probably lots of referrals to TSM. Interesting retirement timings by these Judges: here, at age 62 one year before the election when Corbett can’t fill his seat.
Reprehensible of that guardian ad litem of Matt, who recommended his Sandusky placement, to preside as Judge over a brother’s effing murder trial. not like a 5 and dime robbery.
if JS was active from the late 60s in State College with young boys, how many stories did these 2 former State College investigators, and others following in their footsteps, hear?
The PA State Bar meeds to open a satillite office in State College and start ethics investigations.
you say, Beejay, that Ridge and Grine went to Dickinson.
Isn’t that the law school Penn State took
over and made PS’s own law school?
If so, who’s bright idea was that.
Surely would raise the value of the degree.
Keep digging Rose. The depth of this evil IMO has only begun to surface.
Your comments raise some real questions. Until proven diferently, I believe this whole thing has been concealed by a combination of people at Penn. State and the corrupt criminal justice system in parts of Pennsylvania.
Part two of this should be actively investigating those who acted as enablers in order to prosecute them where possible.
I feel sorry for students and good teachers at Penn, State. The students loose by having a degree that they paid money to get and the teachers loose by having been associated with the University. On some of the internet blog spots, we have people who are in the position of hiring saying that they will no longer consider hiring Penn. State grads. This is not the students fault, but they too have become collateral damage from this crime.
Katz & Montague might be worth a look.
Dickenson Law School may Get 2nd site at Penn State
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ifwhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bKMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5204,95087
Construction of the Lewis Katz Building, which is named in recognition of Katz’s unprecedented $15 million gift to the law school, was completed in December 2008. In addition to housing the law school, the facility also is home to Penn State’s School of International Affairs.
The focal point of the Lewis Katz Building is its glass-enclosed H. Laddie Montague Jr. Law Library. Named for the class of 1963 alumnus who donated $4 million to the law school, the law library has a volume capacity of 100,000 and seating for 294 students. It features a third-floor reading room overlooking Park Avenue, Beaver Stadium and the Arboretum at Penn State; seven AV-equipped group study rooms; custom-milled hardwood study carrels lining the ramp along the glass curtain wall; and a digital commons that facilitates student research.
http://law.psu.edu/news/katz_dedication
What does a major university do if it is interested in adding a law program, but does not want to increase the number of lawyers entering the job market each year?
That is the situation Pennsylvania State University in State College has faced for years. Last Friday, it solved the problem: its board voted to merge with an existing institution, the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, about 100 miles away.
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/22/us/penn-state-merges-with-dickinson-law.html
The merger was supposed to improve Dickinson Law’s standing and reputation among law schools nationally. Where is it now?
In the 2013 US News rankings, it is tied for No. 76. Perhaps more troubling to its “hey, now we can say we are Big Ten alums!” graduates, Penn State’s bought/paid-for law school is behind eight law schools in the Big Ten: Michigan, Northwestern, Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio State and Wisconsin.
Until this Nittany Lion shame came to light, I was able to alternately laugh off and ignore the forced affiliation with Penn State (where I never spent one day as a student) as a disappointing annoyance. I learned to treat my student loan-laden law degree—other than my mortgage, the largest debt I am personally obligated to pay—like I would a stock that tanked, or an expensive piece of art that was stolen. Until now.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1230311-jerry-sandusky-and-penn-state-once-this-trial-is-over-please-go-away
Yes the law school merger happened in 2000. Two locations in Carlisle and University Park. Enrollment has been about 600, mostly for the JD degree. Ten years ago it graduated 83%.
Lizzy, you know me pretty well! Sometimes. I try to slip in a little self-effacing word play. Is there therapy for that?
Rose C. thanks for the Joel Achenbach WashPo piece. Nicely done from good notes.
He’s worked at his craft for a long time with great success. It seems hardly fare to compare him with the female reporter who was flying down the stairs to relay the verdict via cell phone and laptop at the same time.
Yet, a lesson or two can be learned from Achenbach. He has learned to be personable without being sloppy.
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