PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Prosecutors in the case against three former Pennsylvania State University administrators charged in the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal contradicted one of their key witnesses in recent court filings – and in doing so appear to have conceded part of a central argument made by the ex-officials’ defense.
At issue is whether Cynthia Baldwin, the university’s chief adviser on legal affairs from 2010 until her resignation this year, was representing former university president Graham B. Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley, and former vice president Gary Schultz when they testified before a grand jury investigating Sandusky’s crimes in May 2011…
Her testimony against them violates attorney-client privilege and endangers their chances of receiving a fair trial, wrote Spanier’s attorneys in a motion filed Monday in Dauphin County Court…. (more)
