HARRISBURG PATRIOT NEWS Column: …Each defendant has asserted he believed Baldwin was acting as his personal attorney when she attended their grand jury appearances i Harrisburg in 2011, and their attorney / client privilege was never waived.
Given that, they argue that:
Obstruction charges built largely on Baldwin’s subsequent statements should be dropped.
The defendants’ own grand jury testimony should be thrown out because of the conflict in their legal representation. That would effectively kill the perjury charges.
Prosecutors have countered that Baldwin’s over-arching duty was always to Penn State, and as she learned that its officers were misleading her during the course of the Sandusky probe, she correctly reported what she had come to find out to authorities. … (more)
EDITOR: From our five decades experience as a CEO, we can understand their hesitancy. They may have used bad judgement, but they certainly weren’t criminal.
This is a witch hunt, an attempt to apply today’s super sensitivity to suggestions of child molestation to the past. The sooner the case is thrown out, for any reason, the better.
