Monday, June 25, 2012

Justice has prevailed once again!


          After a little more than 20 hours of deliberation the jury in the Child Abuse case of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky came at around 11 p.m.

           The trial began Monday, June 11 with the prosecution calling up 8 of the 10 victims and character witnesses for the other two. Mike McQueary and members of Child Services also testified for the defense giving gruesome details of what happened to the children.

             In Pennsylvania however, expert testimony about child abuse and how it affects the victims afterwards is forbidden as well as all camera and recordings.

             Thursday June, 14 the prosecution rested and the defense took over. The case went to the jury on Thursday and they deliberated for approximately 8 hours.


              The jury reconvened today at 9 a.m., to rehear testimony from Mike McQueary, prosecution witness, and Dr. Jonathan Dranov, defense witness, which lasted 2 hours and then they deliberated until around 10:30.




               Sandusky's wife Dottie was the last person to testify for the defense before they rested and did not let Jerry Sandusky testify for himself. His adopted son, Matt Sandusky, was on the prosecution's rebuttal list if Sandusky did testify.

               Matt Sandusky went onto Rock Center and told them that that his dad had abused him to as a child which means that there maybe another trial.

               Jerry Sandusky was convicted on 45 of the 48 remaining charges. Here is the verdict sheet. The 3 counts he was found not guilty were, count 7, victim 2's 1st charge, felony involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, count 23, victim 5's 1st charge, misdemeanor indecent assault, and count 27, victim 6's 1st charge, misdemeanor indecent assault.

               Counts 16, 18 and 19 were dismissed by the Judge on Thursday morning before closing arguments and count 33 was dropped by the prosecution because it happened prior to the statute of limitations ruling in 1997.

               Joe Amendola, defense attorney for Sandusky, is one of the worst public speakers of all time.

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