Convicted Sex Offender Jerry Sandusky to Return to Court Thursday
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will appear in court again on Thursday.
CBS Pittsburgh News reports that the 71-year-old convicted sex offender is scheduled to arrive at Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania in an attempt to get his conviction overturned. Sandusky has argued that unfair practices during the trial should grant his lawyers the right to subpoena witnesses and review prosecution records.
Specifically, the defense is concerned with an unnamed victim who testified and who is suspected to have been sympathetic to Sandusky at one point.
On June 2012, Sandusky was convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys over the course of a 15-year period, though there were at least 30 men involved in the civil settlement.
Prosecutors said that Sandusky used his children's charity organization, The Second Mile, to attract potential victims. The assaults occurred in the showers of the on-campus football facilities, which Sandusky had access after he retired as Penn State's team defensive coordinator.
Sandusky lost previous appeals to his conviction, and may even face further charges in the future.
According to CNN, a Pennsylvania judge ruled that a 43-year-old alleged victim of Sandusky will be able to bring his case to court, despite falling outside the statute of limitations.
The ruling was made due to Sandusky's status as a state employee, and it opens the doors for other victims to come to court.
Anthony Spinelli, 43, said Sandusky assaulted him twice when he was a sought after high school football recruit in the 1980s.
"The ability to look the person who has harmed you in the eye and being able to [ask], 'Why? Why did you do that?' And in a sense getting an answer to that by having my day will mean the world to me and my family," Spinelli said.
Sandusky is currently serving 30 to 60 years at the maximum-security State Correctional Institution in Greene County.
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