Judge throws out ex-Penn State president's conviction

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: AP

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal judge has thrown out former Penn State President Graham Spanier's child-endangerment conviction, less than a day before he was due to turn himself in to jail.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick in Scranton, Pennsylvania, issued a decision late Tuesday that gave state prosecutors three months to retry Spanier.

She agreed with Spanier's argument he was improperly charged under a 2007 law for actions that occurred in 2001, when he was responding to a complaint about Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy on campus.

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The 70-year-old Spanier was forced out as president shortly after Sandusky's 2011 arrest.



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[JoeOtterbein]

1. Rec'd because I hate this news!

I paid tens of thousands to Penn State for my daughter's education during the time the creep served.

Lock him up!

[DeminPennswoods]

2. Regardless, you cannot charge a crime under a statute that did

not exist at the time. It was always the problem with the state's prosecution of Spanier, Curley and Schultz.

For example, if you solve a cold case murder decades after the crime occurred, you can only prosecute under the laws that were in effect at the time of the crime, not any of the laws that were passed or modified subsequently.

[Mc Mike]

3. There should be SOME law that can get Spanier jugged for his role in this.

[srobertss]

4. He's been paid since 2011!

That’s what really boggles my mind. Taxpayers have been supporting him all this time! With enrollment dropping all over the country, budgets are tight. Criminey.

He was my boss’ boss at Oregon State University. He was supportive of our diversity efforts. But criminey.

[oldlibdem]

5. Glad to see that white entitled colege educated "brahmins" still protect each other!

was beggining to worry that the rich might have to face equal justice under law.

[Blue_Tires]

6. Wow... So nobody is going to serve any time at all

despite a documented massive cover-up?