Noonan only employees "character" guys.Looks like he has a new gig though I have not yet verified.
http://www.thenoonangroup.org/attorneys.html
Noonan only employees "character" guys.Looks like he has a new gig though I have not yet verified.
http://www.thenoonangroup.org/attorneys.html
That depends how he defined the "top 1 percent." Perhaps it was based on victim counts, amount of time before being caught, etc. I honestly do not know how Clemente reached that conclusion, I'm just throwing out things that might have been a factor. Sandusky being too incompetent to properly answer a simple question on national TV may not have proven or disproven Clemente's point.
You realize that Franco can only find people credible if they say what he needs to hear.That depends how he defined the "top 1 percent." Perhaps it was based on victim counts, amount of time before being caught, etc. I honestly do not know how Clemente reached that conclusion, I'm just throwing out things that might have been a factor. Sandusky being too incompetent to properly answer a simple question on national TV may not have proven or disproven Clemente's point.
I would think someone who was classified in the top 1% of CSA nice guy predators would be pretty adept at hiding his or her tracks. As demonstrated by the Costas interview, Sandusky certainly doesn’t appear that adept at hiding his tracks.
You realize that Franco can only find people credible if they say what he needs to hear.
People act differently in different situations. Just because Sandusky was a putz when facing a crucial interview question on national television that doesn't allow me to draw conclusions about his deception skills under a completely different set of circumstances. I would argue that victim allegations spanning decades is a far bigger indicator of Sandusky's potential for deception than one interview question ever could be.I would think someone who was classified in the top 1% of CSA nice guy predators would be pretty adept at hiding his or her tracks. As demonstrated by the Costas interview, Sandusky certainly doesn’t appear that adept at hiding his tracks.
People act differently in different situations. Just because Sandusky was a putz when facing a crucial interview question on national television that doesn't allow me to draw conclusions about his deception skills under a completely different set of circumstances. I would argue that victim allegations spanning decades is a far bigger indicator of Sandusky's potential for deception than one interview question ever could be.
It wasn't sexual either time. Both Jerry and the boys have said so. Jerry did it a second time because he didn't see anything wrong with what he had done. Jerry had, arguably, healthy relationships with both of those boys until the day he was indicted, when both were adults.
I've never claimed any more than I thought Jerry deserved a new trial. Imagine if Curley, Schultz and Alan Meyers had been free to be defense witnesses. To be sure, I don't think any of the PSU related cases hold up at all. Especially the janitor case; no victim, no witness testified, no date established for the crime, no report of a crime, no physical evidence of a crime...guilty on five counts! How do you defend yourself against that? Either Sandusky is an innocent man or there is a concerted effort to make this a PSU story and not a TSM story, or both.
If he gets disbarred, it's gonna be a leetle bit tough to act as a lawyer in any way. The definition of the practice of law is a lot broader than most people think. Not sure even Noonan is dumb enough to try that if Frankie's ticket's been punched.Looks like he has a new gig though I have not yet verified.
http://www.thenoonangroup.org/attorneys.html
Didn’t they (or at least one of them) also testify that he did do something?
Again I will ask the question Indy: Why would he have physical contact alone in a shower with young boys at all, let alone after he had promised to never do so again after being investigated by the police the first time? I just want one legitimate reason. Because they were sweaty and needed to shower off does not cut it. I have been in showers with other men before including when I was a child. Not once did any of them touch me. That includes my own father.
I will also repeat this, as I have many times: I certainly hope he is not guilty of anything he was found guilty of. I would much rather he have spent time undersevedly in jail than any of these guys have been sexually assaulted by him.
I have been in court several times as an expert witness. Please let me tell you the one lesion I learned. The word Truth is not a part of the legal system and you will not find that concept in the myriad of legal researchable data available.
Huh? Shall I run a westlaw search for the terms “truth” and “veracity” tomorrow and tell you how many hundreds of thousands of times it’s cited in the myriad of legal researchable data available?
Can you even imagine the emotional trauma of being questioned by police about doing something sexually inappropriate with a child?That isn’t something you’d just forget later on, it would be seared into you. In fact, Jerry was affected by it deeply enough to tell the kid’s mother he wished he were dead. Yet, just a few years later, he’s repeating the same activity that led to that investigation.
If, after that first incident, you not only didn’t become hyper vigilant about all your future actions, but instead showered alone with a 12 year old again and made physical contact while in the shower, then the only rational explanation is that you have an uncontrollable urge to do so, and there’s no innocent explanation for that.
Can you even imagine the emotional trauma of being questioned by police about doing something sexually inappropriate with a child?That isn’t something you’d just forget later on, it would be seared into you. In fact, Jerry was affected by it deeply enough to tell the kid’s mother he wished he were dead. Yet, just a few years later, he’s repeating the same activity that led to that investigation.
If, after that first incident, you not only didn’t become hyper vigilant about all your future actions, but instead showered alone with a 12 year old again and made physical contact while in the shower, then the only rational explanation is that you have an uncontrollable urge to do so, and there’s no innocent explanation for that.
Yes there is, if the kid is horsing around. This was a happy event for Alan Meyers. It was fun! Read his statement.
Have you read his statement? Sandusky was his surrogate father. And what he went through exonerated him of any wrongdoing.Again, given what he’d been through before, there is no way a rational adult ends up in a shower with a child again absent some other disturbing reason.
His saying he wished he was dead is misinterpreted, IMO. I believe he was saying, "I had no idea I made him uncomfortable. I feel terrible!"....In fact, Jerry was affected by it deeply enough to tell the kid’s mother he wished he were dead.....
Can you even imagine the emotional trauma of being questioned by police about doing something sexually inappropriate with a child?That isn’t something you’d just forget later on, it would be seared into you. In fact, Jerry was affected by it deeply enough to tell the kid’s mother he wished he were dead. Yet, just a few years later, he’s repeating the same activity that led to that investigation.
If, after that first incident, you not only didn’t become hyper vigilant about all your future actions, but instead showered alone with a 12 year old again and made physical contact while in the shower, then the only rational explanation is that you have an uncontrollable urge to do so, and there’s no innocent explanation for that.
I would think someone who was classified in the top 1% of CSA nice guy predators would be pretty adept at hiding his or her tracks. As demonstrated by the Costas interview, Sandusky certainly doesn’t appear that adept at hiding his tracks.
"The I wish I were dead" claim is hearsay. There's no evidence he actually said that. And even if true, it would only show that Sandusky was very quick to confess to wrongdoing. Yet he never made any attempt to seek a plea bargain or confess after the conviction even though it would have made his prison sentence much shorter/more tolerable.
Its very likely Sandusky just saw the 1998 police interview as them simply going through a procedure in response to an overreaction of a overprotective mother. Its also important to note in the case of the 2000-01 incident, the mother of the almost 14-year old clearly had no issue with Jerry horsing around in the shower with her son, so its reasonable to believe Jerry thought he had nothing to worry about in this case.
I reject the serial groomer/voyeur theory for the following reasons:
1) No porn was ever found in Sandusky's possession
2) Sandusky made no effort to plea bargain
3) Sandusky did not confess to any sexual misbehavior after the conviction even though it would have allowed help to get psychological help in prison and maybe some sympathy in some circles. He also did not confess with John Ziegler used the formula Jim Clemente claimed would guarantee confession.
Unless the person spoke no English, I'd lock up anyone who paused more than 1 second. (Or answered yes)
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Have you read his statement? Sandusky was his surrogate father. And what he went through exonerated him of any wrongdoing.
There's only one reason the '01 incident ever saw the light of day....somebody wanted to throw PSU football under the bus.
Still hasn’t been anybody to give a legitimate, innocent reason for Jerry to have been in the shower having direct physical contact with an underage boy.
Anyone?
Still hasn’t been anybody to give a legitimate, innocent reason for Jerry to have been in the shower having direct physical contact with an underage boy.
Anyone?
Could you explain this sentence?:
And what he went through exonerated him of any wrongdoing.
Yeah, that is not answering the question. I am sure between sports and gym class I must have taken hundreds of showers in those large 10-15 person showers all the schools had back then. Not one time did I ever have any other person touch me, at all, for any reason. Not once was I ever in a shower with an adult male, alone.Sandusky is from an older generation that didn't see anything wrong with this stuff. Believe me, I'd love it if the old guys in public locker rooms would cover up when walking around after a shower, but they don't.
There is no reason to ever "bear hug" a 10-14 year old kid in the shower as an adult. You won't get an answer that is valid. You don't jump into a shower with another persons child that is 10+ years of age and touch them. It was his compulsion as he knew damn well it was wrong...he was told it was wrong and said he would never do it again. This man ran a children's charity for f--ked up kids and he somehow didn't know right from wrong. You need to pretend Jerry himself was a slow adult or mentally challenged goof ball. Yet he was smart enough to graduate college and lead an incredible defense for decades at PSU. Joe just never noticed he was an idiot somehow. The whole thing is insulting to the victims and Joe himself IMO.Still hasn’t been anybody to give a legitimate, innocent reason for Jerry to have been in the shower having direct physical contact with an underage boy.
Anyone?
Classic cherry picking of data points to meet your own conclusions. It is an irrefutable fact that there are accusations dating way before 1997. Just because those accusers weren't part of the trial doesn't change the fact that they exist. Some of those accusations are questionable in nature. However just because you or I may disagree with them, doesn't change the fact that those accusations exist. I stand by my original statement that there are allegations that span decades. This is a fact.Spanning decades? Six of the Eight trial accusers all claimed abuse from 1997-99. The two others claimed abuse from 2005-2008 (who only met each other once despite both claiming they spent nearly every weekend at Sandusky’s house).
These bullet points are nice, and do absolutely nothing to confirm or deny Sandusky's innocence. There is no requirement or dependency on any one of these points in order to confirm guilt. Just because history has shown that the majority of child molestors over a large sample size do these things doesn't mean jack squat in terms of what one person did or did not do."The I wish I were dead" claim is hearsay. There's no evidence he actually said that. And even if true, it would only show that Sandusky was very quick to confess to wrongdoing. Yet he never made any attempt to seek a plea bargain or confess after the conviction even though it would have made his prison sentence much shorter/more tolerable.
Its very likely Sandusky just saw the 1998 police interview as them simply going through a procedure in response to an overreaction of a overprotective mother. Its also important to note in the case of the 2000-01 incident, the mother of the almost 14-year old clearly had no issue with Jerry horsing around in the shower with her son, so its reasonable to believe Jerry thought he had nothing to worry about in this case.
I reject the serial groomer/voyeur theory for the following reasons:
1) No porn was ever found in Sandusky's possession
2) Sandusky made no effort to plea bargain
3) Sandusky did not confess to any sexual misbehavior after the conviction even though it would have allowed help to get psychological help in prison and maybe some sympathy in some circles. He also did not confess with John Ziegler used the formula Jim Clemente claimed would guarantee confession.
Let me try this again.
Having physical contact with an unrelated minor whether in a shower or not is what sexual predators do when they are eyeing prey. That does not mean that everyone who has physical contact with an unrelated minor is a sexual predator. As I understand it, the key characteristic that separates sexual predators from others is that their motivation for the physical contact is sexual. By that I mean that they either intend to engage in sexual activity (sexual intercourse or oral sex), some sort of fondling that involves private parts, or is something that causes arousal.
Sandusky is a touchy-feely type. I don't believe there is convincing evidence that Sandusky engaged in sexual activity or that he was aroused in dealings with minors (correct me if you think I am wrong with SPECIFIC incidents that you believe contradicts my premise).V2 and v6 are the only confirmed instances that I am aware of concerning Sandusky have physical contact in a shower. In both instances, I believe that the reason that Sandusky had physical contact in the shower was to bond and establish an extended friendly, but non-sexual relationship. And guess what, in both cases of v2 and v6, Sandusky established a 10+ year bonding, friendly relationship with the young men that both have said was non-sexual.
The whole thing is insulting to the victims
PLEASE....after 6+ Years - get to the heart of the crimes committed here! Sandusky is NOT the core LEGAL issue here! The majority of evidence against him is based on speculations concerning questionable behavior with kids and testimonies that changed over time...funny, they all changed when the PSU $$$$ appeared.Still hasn’t been anybody to give a legitimate, innocent reason for Jerry to have been in the shower having direct physical contact with an underage boy.
Anyone?
Yeah being touched and molested as kids is fun....everyone should do it.These poor "victims" will have to console themselves with their millions of dollars. They laughed all the way to the bank on this one.
Idiotic. It’s not about covering yourself up. Sandusky is of one generation later than my dad. If somebody had done that to me he would have beaten them to death. It was not OK then, it’s not OK now.Sandusky is from an older generation that didn't see anything wrong with this stuff. Believe me, I'd love it if the old guys in public locker rooms would cover up when walking around after a shower, but they don't.
The older generation absolutely without any doubt saw something wrong with showering alone with a 12 year old and touching him.
Yeah being touched and molested as kids is fun....everyone should do it
franco, listen! It is not just questionable behavior in "today's world." In 1968/78/88 that is the kind of behavior which would have gotten your ASS KICKED had you done it once and been warned then did it again. Of course, to kick Jerry's ass would have required a father in the boy's life that gave a sh!t about him, and Jerry had managed his grooming charity to be sure that would never happen.I agree that this is very questionable behavior and would never do it myself or recommend anybody to do it. In today's world it is behavior that is fraught with bad outcomes including CSA and being falsely accused of CSA.
The question is was it criminal. Is it possible for an adult to touch an unrelated minor for a non-sexual reason? I believe it is.