ABC NEWS / AP: A Pennsylvania appeals court said Wednesday it would not reconsider its recent decision throwing out some of the most serious criminal charges against three former Penn State administrators related to their handling of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.
Superior Court posted an order denying the attorney general’s office’s petition for re-argument in the case of former university president Graham Spanier, former vice president Gary Schultz and former athletic director Tim Curley. Lawyers for all three men declined comment, and a spokesman for the prosecutors said the decision was under review.
The attorney general’s office could seek an appeal to the state Supreme Court, or press forward for trial on the remaining counts in county court in Harrisburg… (more)
EDITOR: The charges as well a those again Attorney General Kathleen Kane should all be dismissed. They are what we term “zeigest indictments”, a reflection of the public emotions of the times rather than sound criminal prosecution in the case of the Penn State executives and an plot on the part by her enemies and some Republicans to force Democrat Kane out of office.
It’s funny how Kane’s fate is linked to the PSU indictment debacle. Obviously Corbett as governor had a vendetta for Spanier and to me at least it is obvious he vitiated the prosecution of Sandusky by stalling, manipulating and then had his AG, Kelly flat out lied to a grand jury so as to give the appearance that PSU officials were why the investigation was botched. Corbett was only interested in pursuing Sandusky when he could link the thing to PSU administration.
Joe Paterno was collateral damage. Really, how many times did the AG and DPW get warned about Sandusky? Why would PSU officials have more insight on Sandusky than PA DPW had. How many children were continually being referred to Second Mile even after the previous allegations of child sex abuse? How many children were placed in direct care with Sandusky after the allegations.
Real citizens know the timelines don’t add up, PSU administration may have been lazy but it isn’t there job to protect children as much as it was Corbett’s as AG and then as Governor. Mike McQueary should have been charged with perjury or AG Kelly should be arrested for prosecutor misconduct since we now know, and you can check this, he never reported child rape to PSU, he used the term horseplay, he got the date of the incident wrong as did Kelly.
And one final aside isn’t it odd how they never found any pornography on Sandusky’s computers and yet Frank Fina and his crooked clique at the AG’s office seemed to be spending a lot of taxapayer time messing with it. Which concludes with…and now we know why Kane is being illegally prosecuted.