I don't consider Karl Rominger a qualified attorney, not after he has admitted misappropriating $535,000 of his client's money for personal use.
Joe Amendola may have been better than a public defender but probably not. I don't believe he was at all effective in his defense of Sandusky and I believe he made mistakes that a competent attorney would not have made which more than likely would have changed the result of the trial.
He was totally unprepared. He should have walked away from the case when his request for continuances were denied and he realized that he was unable to offer a defense that his client deserved. He provided Jerry Sandusky with terrible advise:
-advised him to not challenge the AF charges when he was first indicated
-advised him against having a preliminary hearing that could have exposed more of the accuser's stories
-promised the jury that JS would testify and then walked it back
-was totally unprepared for cross examining the accusers and challenging their accounts
-advised him to give Costas interview without preparing him and telling him how to deny charges
-total mismanagement of v2 charges and not introducing AM statement
-total mismanagement of v8 charges and not bringing in Calhoun statement
-not calling out the deplorable behavior of the OAG for their acts of prosecutorial misconduct
1. The false grand jury presentment that Mike McQueary witnessed an anal rape in the shower
2. The illegal OAG grand jury leak in March 2011 to Sara Ganim in their quest to identify more accusers
3. The OAG investigators suggesting testimony to v4 after he already made a statement and before he went before the grand jury (this was taped unbeknownst to investigators)
4. The OAG making a knowingly false statement when they said v2 was "unknown to us...known to God but not to us."
5. Using Sandusky's constitutional right to remain silent against him in closing arguments
6. Charging Spanier, Curley, and Schultz with criminal offenses when they apparently have no intentions of prosecuting them so they wouldn't be defense witnesses
Jerry Sandusky did not get a fair trial. The question of his guilt is unresolved. If Judge Cleland has a shred of objectively, I believe he will order hearings into the issues identified in the PCRA. What do you believe the Commonwealth will have to say in their response to the Petition? What does Lindsay have wrong?