The second day of Jerry Sanduskys appeal hearing is getting underway on Monday.
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Shubin testified on Monday that he had sent multiple letters and an email to McGettigan and Deputy Attorney General Frank Fina prior to the trial stating that the man who said he was Victim 2 was willing to speak with them.
The man denied to police in September 2011 that any abuse occurred and gave the same statement to an investigator working for Sandusky’s lawyers.
The second day of Jerry Sandusky’s appeal hearing is underway in Pennsylvania.
In closing arguments at the trial, lead prosecutor Joe McGettigan stated that some of Sandusky’s victims were “known only to God”.
McGettigan said Sandusky, who attended all three days of the Post-Conviction Relief Act hearing, “could at any time have told any number of persons” the identity of Victim 2. He insists he’s innocent and is seeking to have his 45-count conviction thrown out or to get a new trial.
Sandusky is serving a 30- to 60-year sentence.
“I don’t think people realize how hard it is for adult survivors, especially those abused by another man, to be honest about everything that happened”, she said.
“He drew the completely wrong locker room, which led me to believe he was never in that locker room”, Sassano said.
Before Shubin testified, he told the judge he wanted to file a motion to quash because some of the information would likely violate attorney client privilege.
Asked whether he was saying the 10 boys who accused Sandusky of the sexual assault were liars, Lindsay said only that their testimony was factually inaccurate. The prosecution did not call him as a witness because they believed he wasn’t fully credible.
On Tuesday, Eshbach said following reports in the Patriot News, she and another member of the AG’s Office, prosecutor Frank Fina, made a decision to plant information on an internal filing system to see if it would make its way out to the public before being intentionally released. “We all arrived at the same conclusion”.
Investigators first approached the man who now says he is Victim 2 well before Sandusky was charged in 2011. Much of the questioning focused on whether Sarah Ganim, the journalist who broke the story, got her information from an illegal grand jury leak.
The three-day hearing ended on Tuesday, although McKean County Court of Common Pleas Judge John Cleland left open the possibility he might call for more hearings.
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Lindsay disagreed on the credibility issue. He said the state Supreme Court has ruled that if there is a justifiable claim of a grand jury leak, a special prosecutor must be appointed.
