As the jury “deliberated into the evening,” Jerry Sandusky’s adopted son Matt, 33, said he had been abused by his father and had been prepared to testify, according to AP.
Matt is one of six adopted children.
“At Matt’s request, we immediately arranged a meeting between him and the prosecutors and investigators,” attorneys Andrew Shubin and Justine Andronici said in a statement. “This has been an extremely painful experience for Matt, and he has asked us to convey his request that the media respect his privacy.”
Sandusky did not take the stand.
When you have no defense, you resort to ad hominems, and that’s what Sandusky’s legal team did in claiming that “false accusers [were] hoping for a payday from civil lawsuits.”
In defending a PSU football player against allegations of rape, lawyer Joe Amendola employed the same sort of tactics:
In July, a federal judge in Pennsylvania dismissed a lawsuit filed by Scott accusing Penn State, police and the alleged victim of conspiring against him.
And in what has to be one of the strangest twists in lawyer-client relationships, Sandusky’s lawyer represented a 16-year-old girl when he was about 49. Amendola, 63, got her pregnant; they married several years later and are now divorced.
At the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bob Ford reminds us that Penn State administrators are part of the story:
Any untainted jury, confronted with the preponderance of evidence in this case and the absence of a credible defense, would convict Sandusky on a majority of the 48 counts he faces. The jury that heard the weeklong case is now in deliberation and, barring a procedural issue, is expected to return its verdict within days. Unless there is a major upset, the Tickle Monster will be found guilty and then some.
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At the least, it seems that Schultz, the former vice president for business and finance; Curley, the athletic director who remains on leave but employed by Penn State; and Spanier, who was fired in November, have some answering to do because of their testimony to the grand jury investigating the allegations against Sandusky.
However, many jurors (seven women, five men) have ties to Penn State.
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