Jerry Sandusky Files For New Trial
Former Penn State football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is once again seeking a new trial following the discovery of new evidence, according to a motion. Sandusky’s attorney, Al Lindsay, filed the motion for a hearing and new trial on Wednesday at the Centre County Court.
In Lindsay’s appeal for a new trial, he stated that following the analysis of a recently uncovered interview from 2011, a handful of young men were persuaded by the “methodology of certain attorneys to change the testimony of the alleged ‘victims.'”
One interviewee, referred to as “SS,” concluded that he didn’t believe Sandusky’s acts were “sexual in nature” and didn’t accuse Sandusky of any inappropriate behavior. However, seven years later, SS stated that he was sexually assaulted by Sandusky.
Sandusky and Lindsay believe that SS and other young men were influenced by “methodology” and “therapy sessions” to change their minds regarding their encounters with Sandusky, despite originally denying any wrongdoing by the former coach.
“These ‘victims’ all, when initially interviewed by police, had nothing but good things to say about Mr. Sandusky and denied that he had done anything inappropriate with them,” Lindsay’s appeal reads. “Nonetheless, after they were subjected to substantial interviews by the attorney and undergoing ‘therapy’, to recover lost memories, they showed up at the trial and implicated Mr. Sandusky in wrongdoing.”
Moreover, Lindsay stated that the mishandling of the case in 2011 should be revisited in order to aid Sandusky’s appeal, in reference to an off-the-record meeting among the trial judge, attorneys, prosecutors, and district magistrate judge on the eve of Sandusky’s preliminary hearing.
Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of sexual abuse and is serving his 30-to-60-year sentence at Laurel Highlands state prison. At this point, his earliest possible release would be on October 9, 2042. Sandusky is 79.
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