35 years he knew and did nothing

http://www.pennlive.com/politics/ind..._state_ha.html

That was revealed earlier in this insurance debacle.

What wasn't was that there were six opportunities to tell us about it and stop the scandal from becoming just that but chose to hide it each time.

as usual, scott paterno's twitter feed is from another planet

https://twitter.com/ScottPaterno

John Doe 150 testified that Sandusky penetrated his rectum with his finger in a shower when he was 14-year-old.

Doe testified he requested a meeting with Paterno and informed Paterno about what happened. He alleges Paterno told him he had “a football season to worry about” and walked away.

I'm so excited to see his and the rest of the cult's ramblings every time news breaks. It's the reason I never want this story to end.

That twitter feed is high performance art.

I already despised the Schiano hire as a Buckeye fan and now this? Urban's stock is down. Firstly, Schiano is a grade A moran. But more importantly, there should be a ban at OSU on hiring anyone from Paterno era PSU. It's all AIDS tainted nuclear fallout as the posts above expertly depict.

Like, fine, let's say you're right Scott. He didn't know. Okay. HE STILL RAN A SHIP FOR DECADES WHERE SOME WEIRD OLD ****IN PERV COULD DIDDLE BOYS IN THE SHOWER WHENEVER HE PLEASED. NOT FOR A YEAR. DECADES. Simply indefensible.

But, in a way, I'm glad you keep this behavior up. You clearly have mental issues and an incredibly skewed and biased mind. Rather than mourn and deal with it, you are afflicted with this mental handicap. And given your pathetic character, I celebrate your broken mind.

Sports columnist spitting hot fire (back in 2012 but I missed it then - WARNING NSFW LANGUAGE): http://joesheehanbaseball.blogspot.c...06/choose.html

I think at this point it's been effectively 100% proven that for multiple decades Paterno, every single AD, and multiple assistant coaches were completely aware that Sandusky was a serial child rapist and chose to willfully ignore it out of fear that the fallout would hurt the program.

Not sure what the charges would be, but seems like they should all be in jail.

It's absolutely stunning how so many assistant coaches can see something like this and all decide on their own not to report it.

Something stinks about it. I find it highly unlikely that everybody could outright ignore this for so long without some kind of implied agreement to not report Jerry and to keep this whole thing hush-hush. JoePa appears to have formed a culture around not reporting on Sandusky and letting him do his thing so long as he didn't tell any of them about it.

Here's all of Scott's and Jay's tweets about it plus a bunch of other crazy crap on top

https://twitter.com/PS4RS

Ironic that a group claiming to work for transparency is actively working to muddy the waters about what really went on at Penn State.

If anyone had reported it they're done as a coach forever (even now). and nothing would've happened to sandusky back then. Worst case he gets another job somewhere else. People generally don't fire themselves, gotta eat and all that.

It was incredibly standard back then for everyone to cover everything up. Doesn't make it right ofc but it's how it goes. Heck even now that happens a lot. At least some of them aren't getting away with it now so we're moving in the right direction on this.

Pretty much. Anyone who's reasonably intelligent figures out pretty quick there are unwritten rules at their place of employment. Carefully worded messages go out. Bosses are really good at cutting you off/changing the subject when it's something they don't want to talk about. Emails go unanswered. Etc.

I can't count the number of times at my job my bosses have communicated something like "do what you have to do but I don't want to know about it".

Add on top of that the pressure/reward of working for a major football powerhouse, then add on top of that the cult of Penn St. I can imagine a lot of lower-level employees would get the message in a very powerful way to just shut the hell up.

It would be "absolutely stunning" if we lived in some fairytale, truly democratic society where institutions were designed and controlled by the surrounding community to serve the surrounding community. But that's not the world we live in. Unfortunately we live in a world shaped by history where the good guys lost and the bad guys won. An extremely hierarchical, institutions vs people world where institutions are created by and designed to serve a tiny subset of people, and the underlings who work for and succeed in such a structure pretty much know without thinking that they must prioritize the needs of the institution over everything else. If that were not the case they would quickly be weeded out.

Normally the more people in on a coverup, the harder it is to conceal since there are more people liable to crack. Seemed that practically everybody knew to let Jerry to do his thing out of their sight. They were then able to keep this secret for over 30 years. That to me is incredible.

You would think that maybe some coach mentions it in passing and somebody overhears it to pass it onto somebody else. Or a staff member happens to refer to it in conversation with his wife and the wife tells a few friends which starts a rumor.

Perhaps one staff member gets fired, has an argument or gets screwed on a promotion and reveals this information as revenge. But nothing. Nothing at all.

The cult is strong.

from Wall Street Journal

It's a bit like the Salem Witch Trials except set in a universe which witches are real, malevolent things.

caught for the wrong reasons is a solid defense imo

Once again we venture into the realm of legal issues versus TAKES. My being thrilled that this obviously guilty imbecilic man was convicted is greatly blunted by this development, because no misconduct or incompetence of defense counsel was necessary to convict him. He may now deserve a new trial, though I doubt it.

As a legal issue, this new attorney probably has a point that the defense provided by Mr. Amendola was incompetent. If memory serves, Mr. Amendola put on a positively Trumpian performance during the defense. The opening admission that the evidence against Sandusky was "overwhelming" was a questionable argumentative gambit, to say the least. Though Sandusky is obviously guilty and even though a premier defense was probably hopeless, Sandusky is still entitled to a proper defense and appears to have a valid claim regarding the incompetence of counsel.

As another legal issue, prosecutorial misconduct violates Mr. Sandusky's rights regardless of his level of guilt, and might also justify a new trial. For example, prosecutorial failure to reveal witnesses favorable to the defense is abhorrent. For example, prosecutorial leakage of damning information - true or otherwise - to the potential jury pool prior to trial is abhorrent. I doubt this attorney can prove it, but if he can evidence it he has a very good point and claim for a new trial.

Put together, one narrative would be that the defense was a shambles and it was damned by prosecutorial misconduct. If that's what happened, I hope he gets a new trial because he deserves one.

And then I hope he gets wrecked, again, and withers in prison.

This is a great teachable moment regarding the hallowed value of due process and the right to competent representation. It is important to get these things right, even in cases like this, where a legitimate monster is there for what amounts to a show trial if handled competently.

This is the first pro-PSU, pro-Sandusky, pro-JoePa event in this entire thread that I find reasonable and arguably to be in the right. It's the only one. He'll still lose.

i'm not even a make-believe legal beagle, but i've read about loads of cases much much much much much more deserving of a retrial than this one that seemed to be met with a reaction of "lol, no"

of course they probably all involved defendants who were poor and/or black

go away, Jerry

I don't even have the will to express my sadness any longer

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Lol. Retrial? He should have left the country while he had the chance. Everyone from Central PA knew about this like 15 years ago. It was only a matter of time before justice prevailed.

Going to honor Paterno September 17 apparently