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Jerry Sandusky sex abuse trial pushed back three weeks; His Lawyer Argues Just Because You Saw It Doesn’t Mean You Saw It

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from AP -HARRISBURG, Pa. — A judge overseeing former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s child sexual abuse case on Thursday delayed the start of the trial by three weeks to early June, and prosecutors filed a lengthy court document that said the case should not be dismissed.

Judge John Cleland said the additional time was needed “to accommodate various logistical contingencies that have arisen,” and the attorney general’s office supported the postponement.

The prosecution’s 21-page answer to a catch-all pretrial motion that Sandusky’s lawyer submitted a week ago said the commonwealth had “broad latitude” to establish the dates of allegations in child sexual abuse cases. Sandusky has asked for more specifics about when authorities say the crimes occurred.

“Defendant cannot exploit the appalling breadth of his own criminal conduct by claiming it encompasses so long a period as to hamper his defense,” chief deputy attorney general Frank Fina wrote.

The 68-year-old retired defensive coordinator faces 52 counts involving 10 boys over a 15-year period. He remains confined to his home to await trial. Prosecutors have accused him of engaging in a range of illegal behavior with the boys, including sexual assaults, allegations he denies.

Fina disputed Sandusky’s argument that witness Mike McQueary will not be able to prove the charges involving a young boy McQueary said he saw being sexually abused by Sandusky in the Penn State showers in 2002.

“The defense appears to argue that an eyewitness who sees an adult man having sex with a child cannot provide sufficient evidence of the conduct of crimes,” Fina wrote. “It is noteworthy that the defense provides no legal support for such a specious assertion.”

The judge said a hearing remains scheduled for April 5 in Bellefonte to argue over the pretrial issues.

Fina wrote that the prosecution agreed with Sandusky’s request to have prospective jurors questioned individually and to sequester them at trial.

In Sandusky’s omnibus pretrial motion last week, defense lawyer Joe Amendola argued some allegations were not sufficiently specific, others lacked evidence and the statute of limitations may have run out in some cases.

Amendola released a statement saying that he’s had only about two months to review “volumes of discovery materials” that he received from prosecutors in mid-January.

“We don’t know if we will have all the information we need and are entitled to receive prior to the new trial date, but we will do our very best to be ready to proceed to trial on June 5th,” he said in an email late Thursday.

Fina noted that Sandusky waived a preliminary hearing that would have allowed him to test some of the evidence against him.

“He cannot now be heard to complain the information is insufficient, having conceded the ability of the commonwealth to prove each count if submitted to a fact-finder,” Fina wrote.

Fina told the judge that prosecutors expect to disclose additional information to the defense as the investigation continues. He asked the judge to allow Amendola to amend the omnibus pretrial motion two weeks after that additional information is received.

The prosecution filing said that a search of Sandusky’s home in June was authorized by a valid warrant and that investigators legally intercepted conversations between Sandusky and two boys, identified as Victim 1 and Victim 9 in court records. They include a seven-minute conversation with Victim 1 in June 2009 and a conversation with Victim 9 about four days after Sandusky was arrested in early November.

“It is denied that the interceptions were in any way illegal or improper,” Fina said. “It is absolutely admitted that the defendant ‘was unaware of and did not consent to the interceptions.'”

from www.nydailynews.com – The Penn State University-Jerry Sandusky sex abuse trial will begin three weeks after the original start date “to accommodate various logistical contingencies,” according to an order filed Thursday by the judge overseeing the case.

Sandusky, the 68-year-old former PSU football defensive coordinator, is charged with 52 counts of sexual abuse of 10 boys over a 15-year period. His trial will now start June 5.

The prosecution also responded to the defense’s voluminous pretrial motion filed last week, in which Sandusky’s attorney Joseph Amendola argued to have all 52 counts dismissed. Amendola argued that some counts contain “non-specific allegations,” that the statute of limitations has expired with regard to eight alleged victims’ allegations and that the prosecution has failed to turn over enough information, including specific dates when the alleged abuse took place.

“Defendant’s hyperbolic posturing is belied by the language of our Rules of Criminal Procedure and our jurisprudence,” Pennsylvania Chief Deputy Attorney General Frank Fina wrote. “Defendant cannot exploit the appalling breadth of his own criminal conduct by claiming it encompasses so long a period as to hamper his defense.”

Fina also took to task the defense’s argument that PSU coach Mike McQueary – who testified that he witnessed Sandusky sodomizing a young boy in a shower on campus in 2002 — won’t be able to prove what he allegedly witnessed.

“The defense appears to argue that an eyewitness who sees an adult man having sex with a child cannot provide sufficient evidence of the conduct of crimes,” Fina wrote. “It is noteworthy that the defense provides no legal support for such a specious assertion.

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