Former Penn State President's Conviction In Sandusky Case Reinstated

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An appeals court reversed a lower court’s decision that the charge should be dropped because former Pennsylvania State University President Graham Spanier’s due process rights were violated.

a 2019 decision from U.S. District Court which found the charge should be dropped because his due process rights were violated.

Spanier’s legal team argued that the due process violation was based in new statute of limitation rules that were retroactively applied to Spanier’s failure to report suspected child abuse to the state in 2001.

State prosecutors filed a criminal complaint against Spanier in 2012 and, when the case went to trial in 2017, read the amended language to the jury, and he was convicted of the misdemeanor charge and sentenced to two months incarceration and two years of supervision. The judges said Spanier’s due process rights could only be violated if his conviction was an “unexpected and indefensible” interpretation of the child endangerment law from before the amendment, which they said was not the case.Key Background

In February 2001, Spanier learned of allegations Sandusky had showered with a young boy in the football locker room, according to. Despite an earlier allegation Sandusky did the same thing in 1998 and the university counsel’s recommendation to report the new complaint to the Department of Public Welfare, Spanier and the former Athletic Director Timothy Curley and former Senior Vice President Gary Schultz did not ultimately report it to the state, according to prosecutors.

 

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He needs to join Sandusky in jail.

01/12/2020 | ASSEMBLÉIA GERAL - MINISTÉRIO DE ARREPENDIMENTO E SANTIDADE INTERNACIONAL

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