For those who can't read the images from the book, I've typed out the text for your convenience. Is it me, or does something seem a little off about Martin's role as a "character witness" for the defense? McGettigan is suspiciously cocky.
Following the lunch recess at 12:50 pm, forty-five-year-old Dr. James S. Martin -- a very handsome man who looked more like a thirty-something -- took the stand. His easy smile and engaging demeanor made him instantly likeable. He had a marked leaning toward everything intellectual.
Martin testified that he had attended Penn State University as an undergraduate and then Hershey Medical for his medical degree. Martin completed his orthopedic residency at the University of Iowa, followed by a one-year fellowship in Birmingham, Alabama.
Martin was more important as a character witness than most in the courtroom may have realized, although his prominence may not have been lost on the jury. He is a partner of the prestigious Martin & Suhey Orthopedics in State College and is chief of surgery at Mount Nittany Medical Center. Martin is a Healthgrades Recognized Doctor, which identifies him as a leading board certified doctor in his area of specialty. Martin enjoys an excellent reputation statewide with approximately 80 percent of his patients highly approving of his expertise.
While completing his degree at the University Park campus, Martin was a dominant sports and academic figure: he was honored as top senior male athlete at Penn State and won NCAA Wrestling All American status for four years and GTE Academic All American honors every year.
... fast forward to questions about Jerry ...
"I think that was a very well generally accepted feeling," Martin assented. He smiled in a comfortable way.
"What was his reputation for those characteristics?"
"I think he was an honest, caring--"
Amendola interrupted, "Truthful, law abiding?"
"Truth, law abiding," agreed Martin.
"Peaceful?"
Martin nodded his head up and down.
"Thank you," stated Amendola. "That's all I have."
McGettigan rose and smiled at this man who was, indeed, a hero himself.
"You said that that was his reputation. Has his reputation changed?" he jumped right in.
Martin lingered for several moments, appearing to choose his words carefully. Sandusky looked on carefully, waiting to hear how the good doctor would respond.
"I think everybody..." he started but then stopped. "There's a lot of speculation about his reputation at this point because of what has transpired," he finished.
Martin was clearly trying to be as discreet as possible, to sidestep anything specific.
McGettigan was not going to let a character witness of this caliber off so easily.
"So it's fair to say that among those people that you know who know the defendant, there are some who would believe he has a bad reputation for those characteristics that defense counsel pointed out. Is that so?"
Martin paused cautiously before responding, "I think a lot of people just don't know right now."
It seemed as if the witness's equivocation took everyone slightly by surprise. A moment ago, he gave a ringing endorsement. That seemed to weaken a little. Pleased with this progress, McGettigan moved to Martin's familial background: he grew up in a stable family with a resident father, mother, and three siblings -- probably an indication as to why Sandusky did not target him. He usually operated within circles of disadvantaged and broken families. Besides, Martin was already seventeen or eighteen years old as a freshman in college when he met Sandusky, well beyond the age of predatory value to the coach. However, McGettigan established to some degree of success that it was Sandusky who had introduced himself to the teenager and vigorously pursued their relationship.
With a mischievous grin, McGettigan asked Martin if he had ever showered with Sandusky.
"I have not, no. I did not."
"Did you know him to shower with other boys?"
"You know, I recall one instance when I was -- I believe it was that time when I stayed at his house that him and another boy during the middle of the day on the weekend that I went to work out and they were finishing their homework at the football complex when they were going to go and shower. I was going to work out. That's my only recollection of ever knowing of him showering with any boy."
Although this may have seemed like an innocuous memory, I thought it was a bit profound. Just in the routine association with Sandusky, here was yet another person who saw him heading to shower with a young boy. How many people are out there like that?
When asked if he knew anything about Sandusky's relationship with boys, Martin offered that he did see him on many occasions with Second Mile kids and that children from that organization were "around him with a lot of things he did." It seemed to Martin that, yes, when he was present, "there were a lot of Second Mile kids around... young boys, age ten to fifteen."
link to e-book starting with Rossman and Leiter getting caught about a lie captured on tape:
https://books.google.com/books?id=4_BsBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT363&lpg=PT373&focus=viewport&dq="mcgettigan+rose+and+smiled"&output=html_text
