Post by Logan on May 1, 2016 22:58:55 GMT -6
Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane will not seek to overturn an appellate court ruling that dismissed the most serious charges against three former Pennsylvania State University leaders accused of ignoring or covering up Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse.
The decision, announced Friday by Kane's office, is a major victory for former Penn State president Graham B. Spanier and top aides Tim Curley and Gary Schultz in a legal battle that has languished for more than four years.
Each was accused of concealing or failing to act on Sandusky's conduct as a serial sex abuser and then lying about it to investigators. But the former administrators contended that the perjury, obstruction, and conspiracy charges against them in 2011 and 2012 were unfairly built on the testimony of Cynthia Baldwin, who was the university's top lawyer during the state investigation of Sandusky, a former assistant football coach.
They argued that Baldwin led them to believe she was representing them, not the institution, when they testified before the Sandusky grand jury - and that she violated attorney-client privilege by becoming a prosecution witness and recounting their conversations and contact.
Read more at www.philly.com/philly/news/20160430_AG_Kane_won_t_fight_ruling_in_Spanier_case.html
The decision, announced Friday by Kane's office, is a major victory for former Penn State president Graham B. Spanier and top aides Tim Curley and Gary Schultz in a legal battle that has languished for more than four years.
Each was accused of concealing or failing to act on Sandusky's conduct as a serial sex abuser and then lying about it to investigators. But the former administrators contended that the perjury, obstruction, and conspiracy charges against them in 2011 and 2012 were unfairly built on the testimony of Cynthia Baldwin, who was the university's top lawyer during the state investigation of Sandusky, a former assistant football coach.
They argued that Baldwin led them to believe she was representing them, not the institution, when they testified before the Sandusky grand jury - and that she violated attorney-client privilege by becoming a prosecution witness and recounting their conversations and contact.
Read more at www.philly.com/philly/news/20160430_AG_Kane_won_t_fight_ruling_in_Spanier_case.html