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Pa. Criminal Attorney On Sandusky Judge: "I Have Never Had A Client Who Was Charged With Those Counts Released On Unsecured Bail"

I just read your post on DJ Dutchcot granting Sandusky unsecured bail. I practice criminal law in Central PA, which I really can't imagine is much different than Centre County/State College. I have represented multiple people charged with the same or similar counts that are against Sandusky.

I have never had a client who was charged with those counts released on unsecured bail. The fact is that the charges carry such heavy penalties that monetary bail is always required as a way to prevent people from skipping out on the case. He is facing state charges that carry mandatory minimums of ten year sentences. If he is found guilty or pleads guilty to those counts the Judge has no discretion and must sentence him to a minimum of ten years incarceration.

The fact that this Judge granted unsecured bail on such a serious case coupled with the fact that she was a volunteer for second mile does not look good at all. The entire purpose of having a Judge is to have someone who is impartial. I would like to know if she has granted unsecured bail in the past for people charged with similar crimes. She clearly should have recused herself though. It's not a difficult process and it happens all the time.

http://deadspin.com/5859426/pa-criminal-attorney-on-sandusky-judge-i-h
ave-never-had-a-client-who-was-charged-with-those-counts-released-on-unsecured-bail

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Can't find a clear pic, but if ya ever get a chance to see Sandusky's teeth, he's even more creepy - if that's possible. Ok, it's not possible, but this guy looks like a real predator.

Reminds me of this guy, the Gormogon, from BONES.

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
What is it about being in a position of any kind of authority or community respect that causes a guy like this to think they can get away with anything regardless of evidence?

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I was Joe Paterno's janitor 40 years ago.

I never met him because I cleaned his office at night. It was a really large office then, bigger than most of the other offices in the Athletic Department combined. He always had a big bowl of butterscotch candy on his desk. I tried to eat as many as I could because I did not always have enough to eat back then. So I remember.

Before (and during) the time was I was Joe's janitor, I was an "at-risk youth". I lived in a dysfunctional, occasionally very violent, single parent home with my father. I was bigger and scarier, so I won most of the fights. My behavior earned me 2 weeks in Children's Hospital, a boatload of Thorazine, and ultimately, through the intervention of some other concerned adults and the sponsorship of the local Masonic Lodge, an all expenses paid stay at the (now defunct) Thomas Rankin Patton Masonic Home for Boys; a small gothic hellhole in central Pa. Until then, I had no idea you could be 21 and still in 10th grade. They were big on vocational education - using (insanely unsafe) machine tools donated by Masons from around the country. The first week of machine shop 10% of us went to the hospital. But the food was good and there was lots of it, I gained 20lbs right away. They gave me a sharp new custom tailored blue blazer with grey slacks, a membership in DeMolay (look it up) and took us all to some big football game (not PSU). The halftime show was those guys in Fezs and tiny cars. Nobody (on the faculty) had sex with me, but the whole place was full of the scariest, creepiest losers I have ever met. Most of them were on the faculty, several of them were alumni who never left. The rest of them lived on my floor. We did not have a pool table in the rec room because a few years before a student fatally struck another student with pool cue. My first great accomplishment in life was getting expelled, it took six months. I was sent to the Headmaster's (Dr. Kopp - I remember) office for sneaking into town to buy cigarettes or some other crime. He said, "I will give you one last chance.." I said No.

I was 15. So when it come to well meaning people throwing money at kids in need, I've been there & done that. There are a lot of kids in need. Some make it, some don't. Some say no, some don't. I just had to say no to a short, old, fat guy in a 3 piece suit behind a desk. It really wasn't that hard. It was Punk 101.

What I do know is it that it is a lot of money, given in good faith with little or no accountability. As I write this Joe Paterno & Graham Spanier have just been fired, rightly so. But consider the money. According to published reports, Penn State University earns $50 million a year on football. In addition, EVERY home game brings $59 million to the town & local economy. Beaver Stadium seats 106,000+. Do you think they do any CASH business (not credit card, check, annual subscription, etc) - CASH business? In a casino they watch every dime, do you think PSU has that kind of security?



Everybody at the top knew; they are all dirty. Hundreds of people knew, for years. The Athletic Department knew, the janitors knew, the University Police knew, the Centre County District Attorney's office knew, the Governor knew (for 2 years, in his own words, today), Second Mile knew. Second Mile is especially fishy - read their financial reports, they are online. According to the Pgh Post-Gazette, the CEO & his wife BOTH make over $100,000 a year in salary (they both have other jobs). That is @80% of Second Mile's entire payroll. Read Second Mile's donor list - the Pittsburgh Symphony should be so lucky. Second Mile is a monster fund raising machine. Plus this- they lost a quarter of a million dollars according to their last annual report (roughly the salaries of the CEO & his wife) AND they are sitting on 60 ACRES of prime Centre County real estate.

From The Centre Dailty Times Jan 5, 2011

BELLEFONTE - As the number of children served by The Second Mile continues to grow, the nonprofit is getting ready to build an $8.5 million learning center on land in Patton Township.



Second Mile officials described the project and their long-term goals Tuesday to the Centre County Board of Commissioners. Those goals include applying for a $3 million state grant that the county would administer, a plan approved by commissioners.

Executive Vice President Katherine Genovese (wife of the CEO, also Exec VP for the architect; same address as Second Mile- what a surprise - my comment) said The Second Mile owns 60 acres at Bernel and Fox Hollow roads, near University Park Airport. The learning center will include a classroom, study areas, a library, gymnasium, multipurpose room and cafeteria. It will be able to accommodate overnight programs for as many as 100 children.



It's not about protecting the institution, the program, the brand - that's all BS. Firing Paterno & Spanier is a smokescreen. It is about protecting the scam. Somebody is walking away with tens of millions and we are never going to hear about it and they are going to get away with it. The reason no one wants to speak up for the kids is fear, and the more they know the greater the fear.

And the kids, the victims... the state Attorney General says 8 since 1994, FoxPhilly says 16 - do you believe that? Jerry Sandusky was 50 in 1994. Do you really think it started then? The number of key figures in this tragedy whose resumes include professional certification in psychology, counseling, or family therapy is appalling.

I would say God bless the victims, but He hasn't really been on the case, has He?. So the best I can say is, "Good Luck with that, Dudes. I hope it works out for you."



My heart goes out to him, as it goes out to all the children who were victimized again and again, not just by Sandusky, but by the entire system who felt these kids didn't rate high enough to do the right thing."

SO... anyone here still a Paterno lover?

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
What is it about being in a position of any kind of authority or community respect that causes a guy like this to think they can get away with anything regardless of evidence?

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