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Disgraced Former Penn State DC Jerry Sandusky (convicted child molester)

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Muck;2170263; said:
Note to self: Never hire an attorney who learned his trade at Penn State.



I'd say the look on that face is one of a guy who is just starting to realize the giant open pit of shit he dug for himself.
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"To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous."
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
 
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BB73;2170235; said:
I'll say it again - the PSU football program should be shut down for several years - the Sandusky monster was able to operate and prey on kids for over 15 years because the insular nature of the community, its obsession with the football program, and the overriding concern of protecting JoePa's "legacy" and getting him to 409 wins outweighed any concern for the numerous victims of sexual abuse.

They allowed multiple abuses to continue for over a decade in their blind desire to "protect" the football program. The punishment for the University and the community in general should fit the crime, and in my opinion, depriving them of the football program would do exactly that.
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I think the presumption we Buckeye fans are operating with is one that assumes that such behavior would be caught and punished in Columbus long before it was at State College, PA.

Right now we're safe with that assumption, but love of football and successful coaches and athletes is not limited to Penn State. That love of winning warps decision making and while their bad decisions come nowhere near Sandusky's, there are reasons why Jim Tressel and Gary Moeller are no longer coaching. It is to the credit of both school's that this is the case, but the situations point to the need to be vigilant and have administrators strong enough to make the tough calls.

If anything good can come from this it will be that all Big 10 universities will operate from a heightened awareness of abuse and develop strategies to prevent a similar situation from occurring.
 
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A day after one of the most notorious villains in sports wins a championship, one of the most heinous villains in the real world gets convicted on the vast majority of the charges brought against him. The amount of disgust that I felt when LeBron won the NBA title was infinitesimal compared to the amount of satisfaction I felt when Sandusky was found guilty of child molestation. It's good to see that a truly bad and evil person will receive punishments for his crimes, and that his victims will see some justice, however delayed.

As a sports fan, it's very easy to label the opponent as "scum" or "trash" or "subhuman", and to hate them just for existing, when people like Sandusky are the real degenerate monsters who deserve our derision and contempt. Sometimes you have to take a step back and remember what's really important in life, and very rarely is it sports. Unfortunately, it looks like too many Penn State fans are unable to do so.

Now I can only hope that Sandusky does the right thing by finally admitting what he did, and then by outing all of the enablers in the Penn State community.

BB73;2170235; said:
I'll say it again - the PSU football program should be shut down for several years - the Sandusky monster was able to operate and prey on kids for over 15 years because the insular nature of the community, its obsession with the football program, and the overriding concern of protecting JoePa's "legacy" and getting him to 409 wins outweighed any concern for the numerous victims of sexual abuse.

They allowed multiple abuses to continue for over a decade in their blind desire to "protect" the football program. The punishment for the University and the community in general should fit the crime, and in my opinion, depriving them of the football program would do exactly that.
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This is the most succinct argument in favor of the death penalty for Penn State that I have seen. Good work.
 
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Here is some discussion material for the legal folks around here...


Bama Fan Crimson Lights' prediction

Dottie will divorce him, and Jerry will be most generous with the settlement, giving her all his assets (except for Amandola's legal fees and expenses) + his pension. This will keep his money away from the victims and their lawyers. It will also mean that he can claim insolvency regarding any fine that the sentencing judge imposes. JS will be entitled to free dental, vision, hearing, and medical care for any of his ailments plus special food and drink (nonfat milk instead of punch) for any conditions like Type 1 diabetes or an enlarged prostate. He will also be entitled to use a law library to prepare for his appeals. As an indigent prisoner JS will also have taxpayer-provided Community Legal Services sue the Commonwealth to provide stimulating brain food like books and cable TV to prevent mental deterioration given his advanced age plus free psychiatric care for the conditions that Commonwealth expert witnesses described. The big losers will be the Commonwealth (think about the enormous expense that will not be recouped by any fine + costs of defending Kelley and the prosecutors from any criminal charges Jerry chooses to file + the huge costs of maintaining elderly prisoners -- it's why Tom Ridge commuted the sentences of senior citizen prisoners saying that he did not want penitentiaries turned into rest homes), Matt and the victims. The victims will get nothing from JS or the Second Mile since its assets have already been given to a Texas foundation, and Matt will be forever estranged from his adopted family. Concerning insurance payments to the victims from Second Mile and PSU D&O insurance (assuming that they are not self-insured), the guilty verdict means that insurance companies will not pay anything since they do not insure criminal acts. The Paterno family won't pay anything because all of Joe's assets have been transferred to Sue via probate. That leaves only Penn State as deep pockets, and the BoT can cram down settlements by threatening to drag out cases indefinitely.
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Jerry Sandusky's attorneys tried to get out of case because they felt unprepared, Karl Rominger says

Jerry Sandusky's attorney Karl Rominger, on his WHP 580 Saturday radio show, said he and attorney Joe Amendola tried to get out of Sandusky's case the morning of jury selection, not feeling adequately prepared.

Judge John Cleland denied the request, Rominger said.

Cleland had repeatedly denied requests for continuances and the trial approached. Sandusky's attorney said they only had a few months to try to get through all the evidence -- thousands of pages of documents -- prosecutors acquired over the three-year grand jury investigation.


Friday, after the guilty verdict on most counts was read, Amendola said he was, at times, "flying by the seat of his pants" during the trial because he wasn't ready.

After the show, Rominger gave The Patriot-News an example of how unprepared they were:

The morning of jury selection, Amendola's secretary scrambled to put together a witness list, which wasn't prepared. It ended up having six dozen names, only because they had little idea who to call, Rominger said.

"Our witness list was every name we could possibly think of, or that anyone else could possibly think of, because we had no idea ... we had no time to figure it out," he said.

That's how Sue Paterno ended up on the list, which drew a lot of media attention.

"Sue Paterno's name was only on that list because her name came up on one of the police reports, for no important reason whatsoever," Rominger said. "We would have taken her off the list if we had actually had time to read the report where her name showed up."
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Is anyone really buying the "we didnt have enough time" as a good reason for appeal?

Honestly it sounds like they either didn't take this seriously or they aren't very good lawyers. I understand continuances are the norm but once the first request gets denied.... You start burning the midnight oil.
 
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AuTX Buckeye;2170365; said:
Honestly it sounds like they either didn't take this seriously or they aren't very good lawyers. I understand continuances are the norm but once the first request gets denied.... You start burning the midnight oil.
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i've been saying this since the Costas interview.

how does ANY lawyer allow a client to do that interview?
how does any lawyer actually tell the jury "the Commonwealth as overwhelming evidence against my client" and "he is so full of love he does things normal people don't do"?

how does any lawyer laugh and joke after sentencing?
or say "we fully expected this outcome"?


this dude SUCKS at lawyering.
 
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Nutriaitch;2170367; said:
i've been saying this since the Costas interview.

how does ANY lawyer allow a client to do that interview?
how does any lawyer actually tell the jury "the Commonwealth as overwhelming evidence against my client" and "he is so full of love he does things normal people don't do"?

how does any lawyer laugh and joke after sentencing?
or say "we fully expected this outcome"?


this dude SUCKS at lawyering.
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Penn State fans think he's a secret genius. :lol:
 
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This falls under the WTF category.

Defense witness Booker Brooks on the Sandusky trial verdict: 'I think he's guilty.'


Former Penn State assistant football coach Booker Brooks, who testified as a witness for the defense in the Jerry Sandusky trial, said he believes that Sandusky is guilty and it makes him "sad" to have coached with him.
?Well, I always said I was going to wait until the verdict was in [to form an opinion], and I have to accept it,? Brooks said. ?I didn?t want to... I wanted this whole thing to go away and not be true. We don?t get those kind of wishes.?
Brooks, as well as former assistant coach Dick Anderson, testified Monday in the Sandusky case that it isn?t unusual for coaches to share showers with players. During his testimony, Brooks also said Sandusky had an ?exemplary? reputation.
?I think he?s guilty,? Brooks said. ?I just wanted him to be proved guilty.?
Brooks was a wide receivers coach at Penn State from 1968 to 1983, and he coached with Sandusky for fourteen years.
?It?s a tragic thing," Brooks said when asked how it feels to have coached with someone who people are calling a monster. Brooks said it makes him "perturbed and disappointed" to hear speculation regarding a cover up culture at Penn State.
Though he has resigned to Sandusky?s guilt, Brooks doesn?t regret having testified for the defense.
?I was asked to talk about the Jerry I knew, which I did," Brooks said. "I didn?t embellish anything, I didn?t lie about anything.?
Brooks went on to say he and Sandusky got to know each other very well as young, rookie coaches when they would take long drives together to watch upcoming opponents.
Now, Sandusky is in jail.
"Sad," Brooks said to describe Sandusky in one word. "Not that he is sad, but the whole thing that he perpetuated here that has caused this wreckage... is extremely sad."
On Joe Paterno:
Brooks, who has launched a campaign to get former head coach Joe Paterno?s name back on the Big Ten championship trophy, said he still feels that the late head coach Paterno did not cover up any abuse.
He said he still believes ?without question? that Paterno?s name should be on the Big Ten trophy.
Paterno's name was removed in mid-November in the wake of criticism that Paterno knew about an incident involving Sandusky and the person referred to as ?Victim 2? in the showers of the Lasch Football Building and did not notify police.
?I know that Joe would not cover this up,? Brooks said. ?I just know that. You can?t ask me how I know, I just know. It?s just a feeling.?
Brooks coached with Paterno for fifteen years. He said he still has not talked to Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney about the issue.
He also mentioned that he discussed the replacement of Paterno?s name with about 50 or 60 former coaches or players at an event a few days prior to Paterno?s funeral, and Brooks? stance was greatly agreed upon.
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LightningRod;2170394; said:
This falls under the WTF category.
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Yes, Brooks, it's painfully obvious to us all that a whole lot of people "wanted to whole thing to go away and not be true". Unfortunately, ignoring problems doesn't make them go away. And when the problem is a serial child rapist, well, fuck you for trying to wish it away.

Well, I always said I was going to wait until the verdict was in [to form an opinion], and I have to accept it,' Brooks said. 'I didn't want to... I wanted this whole thing to go away and not be true
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On Joe Paterno:
Brooks, who has launched a campaign to get former head coach Joe Paterno?s name back on the Big Ten championship trophy, said he still feels that the late head coach Paterno did not cover up any abuse.
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It isn't about just whether he covered it up, you fucking pigs. At the very least he fucking enabled it, and that's almost as bad. The world would be a better place if we could just throw all these subhuman ped aggy mutants behind bars. They STILL don't get it, and never will.
 
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