The Sandusky trial was the closest thing to a witch hunt as I've ever seen. Frankly, given the fact that they chose to try and convict Jerry for a case in which there was no victim, no date established for the crime, no forensic evidence of the crime, no report of the crime and no witness of the crime, it would seem to me that questioning the veracity of the key victim who was even called out as a liar by his HS principal is the least we could do.
I'm glad you're so confident. I'm certainly not, which is why I hope he gets a new trial.
I think Sandusky is guilty. Do I know with 100% certainty? No. It wouldn't be the first time someone was railroaded. But that aside, just who the f' are you to label anyone with what they feel are legitimate questions as sick? Since you're apparently into amateur psychoanalysis, I'll join you. I think you're more concerned with optics and PC than you are anything else.
Hmmm. I take that foot stomping rant to mean you think one of the "Victims" did lie after all?
No. I think the child rapist is the liar. Sorry for the confusion.
I pray you don't have children.
I find it odd that people here condone this man in any way shape or form. Let your kids hang out with a monster like Jerry. Hell go wear your free Jerry shirts around for all I care. Jerry did this to a ton of kids...not just AF. Get that through your little delusional head.
Sorry, too many irregularities. It was obvious at the time that the system was rigged, but everyone...and I mean everyone...was convinced that JS was some predatory monster so they looked the other way. The prosecution embellished charges (V2), made up charges where there was no victim, no report of a crime, no date of a crime, no evidence of a crime and no witness of a crime (the janitor), manipulated testimony, sidelined key defense witnesses (C/S, V2). They used Matt Sandusky to keep JS from testifying in his own defense. Amendola couldn't even get a continuance. You had Erickson promising $ millions to these people without it ever being established that PSU officials were culpable of any wrong doing. A railroad rolled through town and ran over the presumption of innocence.
Why is it sick to question the judicial process when there is so much evidence that the prosecution broke a number of rules and bent several others? The ends don't justify the means. The system has to work for everybody. It's our duty to protect its integrity. What are you so afraid of?
If so many rules were broken or bent and so much evidence supports this, why was Jerry's sentence upheld by the Superior Court on appeal and the Supreme Court didn't even see enough of a case to review it? Here is the opinion that swiftly dismisses all of the arguments that Sandusky's appellate counsel felt were their best ones: http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Superior/out/J-A24001-13o - 1015706971750303.pdf?cb=1
There's a difference between boundary issues and sexual abuse. That difference lies in whether there's an intent for sexual gratification. Most of the charges against JS involve behavior that is perfectly consistent with Jerry's assumed role as surrogate father. Naked bear hugs are certainly inappropriate under any circumstances, but they're not necessarily criminal. The pattern of behavior the prosecution tried to establish (and were caught on tape manipulating) made virtually everything Jerry did out to be some form of grooming behavior. Maybe that's true, but I'm just not convinced that it is.
JS would have been convicted of murdering the Lindburgh baby had the jury been asked to consider it. The trial was over before it ever began. Just because nobody wanted to revisit that doesn't mean they got it right.
Maybe you're right. Maybe you're not. Too bad Jerry didn't get a fair trial so we'd know for sure.
If he does die in prison, I pray that it's because he deserves to, not because people like you thought it was too icky to demand the truth.
Someone who is barely an adult and was put through hell. Someone who is emotionally damaged. Someone who has an idiot running around telling every sick bastard that will listen that the victim is a liar.
