Special Report: Penn State counsel Cynthia Baldwin's role before grand jury could affect Tim Curley and Gary Schultz's perjury case, experts say
When top Penn State officials Tim Curley and Gary Schultz testified before a grand jury in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse investigation, both men apparently thought they had an attorney.
She was Cynthia Baldwin, in-house legal counsel for Penn State University.
It is reflected in the transcript of their testimonies:
?Good morning, my name is Tim Curley
?Do you have counsel with you??
?Yes I do. ... My counsel is Cynthia Baldwin.?
Schultz was asked: ?You are accompanied today by counsel, Cynthia Baldwin. Is that correct??
?That is correct.?
But Baldwin says she was not representing either man, according to Lanny Davis, the high-profile Washington lawyer hired to represent Penn State in the wake of the Sandusky scandal.
Instead, Davis said, Baldwin was in the grand jury room Jan. 12, 2011, strictly on behalf of the university, and not as legal counsel for Schultz and Curley.
Legal experts say Baldwin?s role before the grand jury could affect the case or Baldwin personally.
And the questions remain: How could confusion reign about something so fundamental to the judicial system?
Why was Baldwin allowed in the grand jury room if she was only representing Penn State?
Baldwin says it was all a big misunderstanding ? that Schultz and Curley were simply mistaken, according to Davis.
can explain the implications for the state's case with having allowed her there.
