This has to have been posted right? "THEN" says it all

Lawyerin' Joe, seeking mercy for his client, leaves us with this thought: "Sandusky, although slow and dangerous behind a child, can still serve a purpose."

Karak you mean money right?

The jury gets to go home for the weekend right?

suzzer, yes. Their rides will be picking them up at 7:45, but they might as well just make it quarter to 8.

my last post sounded unintentionally dickish so let me rephrase:

i think they are sequested the whole time so they'd be in the hotel all weekend with no tv, no internet, monitored phone calls, etc.

WE LANDED ON THE MOON!!!

That would be a huge incentive to reach a verdict.

Wouldn't Second Mile provide the deeper pockets they go after rather than PSU? Or both?

sue em all, obv

OK gang, you know the rules, no humping, no licking, no sniffing hineys

big universities have ****loads of money

do they at least get the $25/day for Sat and Sun too?

Justice is not a frivolous thing. It has little, if anything, to do with a disobedient whale.

Was reading about juries being sequestered

The original purpose of sequestering juries was to compel jurors to reach a verdict quickly by denying them water and food. Fortunately, that approach is a thing of the past! Today, juries are sequestered because of the real or perceived risk of outside influence.

Pedo State has an endowment of 1.7 billion. I wonder how much of that is exposed to this type of litigation. Endowments tend to have restrictions for which purpose they can be spent, but I don't know if they are restricted from damages incurred through litigation. That is of course after whatever bull**** umbrella insurance policy the school has.

I am aware that big universities have a lot of money. What I don't know is what liability PSU would have to a child that was solely raped at Sandusky's house that he was introduced to through the Second Mile charity. I mean there are like rules and **** about going after employers, I really don't think it is clear cut that PSU is going to be on the hook for everything here.

Erin Andrews ‏@ErinAndrews
Verdict coming? RT @rmusselmansc: Karl Rominger just got a phone call to go to the courtroom. "I'll be right up the steps," he said.

some policies won't cover you for an intentional tort or gross negligence or something like that. i think the behavior here probably gets to the level of where you might lose coverage. it depends.

a lot of big organizations also self-insure or don't carry insurance because the cost is so high. if something like what happened to the catholic church were covered, the insurance company is basically taking the risk of bankruptcy if they were to cover all liability. it's certainly possible insurance covers little or no damages here. i dunno.

i think the school could be in very deep trouble. don't forget the philly and boston (i think?) dioceses were basically bankrupt until they got bailed out (i assume by the vatican).

look at the liability the catholic church faced and then realize that in the aftermath of the catholic scandal lots of laws were passed to make it EASIER to sue in situations like this.

obviously there's a lot of legal theories at work here PSU can use in their defense AND we don't have all the information, but i really think they are going to get demolished. whether or not they can cry sovereign immunity and hide behind the state is uncertain because a) they are state "supported" or "assisted" or whatever and not state run and b) who knows what PA laws allow for suits in this

(sovereign immunity is the doctrine that you can't sue the state unless the state gives you permission to OR there is some sort of exception carved out by state/federal law or otherwise)

Gonna tilt off the planet if Erin Andrews was the first journalist to know a verdict had been reached.

5m Laura Nichols Laura Nichols ‏@LC_Nichols

All attorneys are in chambers. Security guards are moving about Courtroom 1 ... could there be a #Sandusky verdict tonight? Stay tuned.
Retweeted by Ron Musselman

it's also 9 PM and possible the judge is setting a schedule for the weekend/next week

additionally, PSU will certainly face liability if they knew about the rapes AND one can establish some sort of duty of care they owed the kids

but also consider the rapes that allegedly happened ON CAMPUS GROUNDS and in the showers! of course, no reasonable doubt standard here. they are facing a much taller task than sandusky was in criminal court.

I was wondering if even an umbrella policy would stipulate against something like habitual pedophilia. I assumed there were policies you could buy that would cover "everything" but I have no idea. I guess theoretically there are but the premiums would be exorbitant.

..butnah


1m Nate Mink Nate Mink ‏@MinkNate

At 8:39 p.m., court announces jury deliberations continue. Smart money is on a Saturday spent in Bellefonte #Sandusky
Retweeted by Ron Musselman

Michael Sisak ‏@cvmikesisak
Jury deliberations continuing, Jerry ‪#Sandusky‬ not here (per @ADreyPhotos of @centredailycom). Status quo at courthouse.

these people are so weird

Brittany Horn ‏@brittanyhorn
MT @cvmikesisak: #Sandusky attny Rominger walks into crtrm holding 2 pieces of candy: "I have two Swedish fish. I'm not sure what it means."

What the hell is taking so long...how do you not just snap convict on all counts