The case has gone to the jury. I presume they will deliberate four hours (in order to get a free lunch) before convicting him.
The judge has ordered nobody to report the verdicts on the counts until all the verdicts are read and the court’s business finished. The sheriff, may God bless this simple man, has said he would be guarding the window of the courtroom to ensure nobody signals to the press outside. How sweet, he has never heard of wireless.
In other news, one of Sandusky’s adopted children say he was raped by Dad.
Ironically, one of them was the one that started the whole investigation, Victim #2. The one that McQueary saw. Generally, it was the counts that didn’t have actual victim testimony, but only 3rd-party testimony.
I wonder, out of curiosity more than concern, what will become of Mrs. Sandusky. I’m guessing her husband’s defense ate up most of their liquid assets, and if not the civil suits will. OTOH, their Social Security is untouchable and he probably has some pensions that are as well. However, I wonder if she’ll stand by her man (such as it is) or if she’ll just leave the area.
I’m of the opinion that she had to know something very bad was going on, even if she did wear blinders, especially since one of her sons now says he was molested.
Good! Now what becomes of Schultz and Curley? Weren’t they recently charged with perjury or something as well?
According to Amendola, he didn’t testify because he was under a gag order – is that possible? I would think that your right to defend yourself would over ride that.
Now, although this certainly isn’t of great importance, I wonder if Starving Artist will ever show up to admit he may have been…somewhat off the mark in his defense of Sandusky.
SA hasn’t been around spreading his insanity for the past couple weeks so I doubt he’ll rush back in here to admit he was wrong. Of course he wouldn’t even if he was around but well yeah we all wonder…
The answer to your second question is yes. It would matter, but only in the sense that he could have expressed deep and (I believe truly) heartfelt remorse that he didn’t do more to stop this. Granted, that’s a little hard to believe given the further evidence that’s coming out about Penn State’s complicity in this, but many, many people (and not just Nittany Lion fans) would have been looking to give him the benefit of the doubt.
The answer to your first question is that JoePa now has a permanently tainted legacy. Many of his wins will be seen as having been won through the sacrifice of innocent young boys. It’ll make Maris’ asterisk look like a joke.
Just speaking for myself, it will be impossible for me to ever again think of Penn State football, or Joe Paterno, without this horrendous series of crimes looming in the foreground.
Some tangential good might come out of this if it somehow contributed to reigning in the wilder excesses of football culture in this country, but I’m at a loss to see how that might happen.