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Title: Penn State Scandal Keeps Dragging On Post by: Marshal Dillon on July 10, 2013, 08:29:31 PM Why is this thing taking so long? Even a murder case does not drag out this long.
??? http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130710/penn-state-abuse-court-hearing-gary-schultz-tim-curley.ap/?sct=uk_t2_a5 Title: Re: Penn State Scandal Keeps Dragging On Post by: ricky023 on July 10, 2013, 09:30:44 PM I hate to say it but this dragging really bad. Maybe the news guys don't have anything else to write about. RTR!
Title: Re: Penn State Scandal Keeps Dragging On Post by: Catch Prothro on July 11, 2013, 12:11:24 PM It's a complicated case to prove. It is one thing to convict Sandusky of abuse when you have witnesses. It is another thing to prove a cover up, when only a small number of people are in the know, and they aren't the victims but the defendants. This "preliminary hearing" is to see if they have gathered enough evidence to go to trial. Likely, the defendants have been adding to the delay.
We all know that they are probably guilty. I don't know how much evidence there is against them though, for proof "beyond a reasonable doubt." Title: Re: Penn State Scandal Keeps Dragging On Post by: Hannibal Lecter, MD on July 11, 2013, 01:50:18 PM It's a complicated case to prove. It is one thing to convict Sandusky of abuse when you have witnesses. It is another thing to prove a cover up, when only a small number of people are in the know, and they aren't the victims but the defendants. This "preliminary hearing" is to see if they have gathered enough evidence to go to trial. Likely, the defendants have been adding to the delay. We all know that they are probably guilty. I don't know how much evidence there is against them though, for proof "beyond a reasonable doubt." I'd imagine there will be some civil suits following that don't require the same burden of proof. Title: Re: Penn State Scandal Keeps Dragging On Post by: 2Stater on July 11, 2013, 02:41:29 PM It's a complicated case to prove. It is one thing to convict Sandusky of abuse when you have witnesses. It is another thing to prove a cover up, when only a small number of people are in the know, and they aren't the victims but the defendants. This "preliminary hearing" is to see if they have gathered enough evidence to go to trial. Likely, the defendants have been adding to the delay. We all know that they are probably guilty. I don't know how much evidence there is against them though, for proof "beyond a reasonable doubt." I'd imagine there will be some civil suits following that don't require the same burden of proof. True. That's what happened to OJ. Title: Re: Penn State Scandal Keeps Dragging On Post by: Marshal Dillon on July 11, 2013, 09:26:05 PM Things just keep getting nuttier in this case.
Quote Penn State's former president Graham Spanier initiated a libel and defamation case Thursday against Louis Freeh, the former FBI director who a year ago produced a report for the school that was highly critical of Spanier's role in the child sex abuse scandal involving longtime assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Paperwork filed in Centre County, where the school is located, disclosed little about the nature of his claims but checked off a box on a court system form that described the case as "slander/libel/defamation.'' Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130711/graham-spanier-penn-state-libel.ap/#ixzz2YnIU8Brt :facepalm: Title: Re: Penn State Scandal Keeps Dragging On Post by: Catch Prothro on July 12, 2013, 11:19:49 AM It's a complicated case to prove. It is one thing to convict Sandusky of abuse when you have witnesses. It is another thing to prove a cover up, when only a small number of people are in the know, and they aren't the victims but the defendants. This "preliminary hearing" is to see if they have gathered enough evidence to go to trial. Likely, the defendants have been adding to the delay. We all know that they are probably guilty. I don't know how much evidence there is against them though, for proof "beyond a reasonable doubt." I'd imagine there will be some civil suits following that don't require the same burden of proof. Title: Re: Penn State Scandal Keeps Dragging On Post by: Marshal Dillon on July 12, 2013, 09:01:48 PM More stuff about Penn State and the Sandusky situation.
Quote Penn State could soon be paying out millions of dollars to victims of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky after disclosing Friday it had tentative agreements with some of the young men who say he sexually abused them. The school does not plan to comment on specifics until the deals are made final, which could happen in the coming weeks. University president Rodney Erickson called getting approval for settlement offers "another important step toward the resolution of claims from Sandusky's victims. http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/penn-state-board-authorizes-jerry-sandusky-settlements-071213 |