Sandusky found guilty of most sex abuse charges

[RICHARD]

Let me try to explain why I think this happened.

This was a unique situation. There are many people who idolize Penn State and who also idolized Joe Paterno. Although I live only an hour away from State College, I am not one of them.

This was a big deal here in Pennsylvania since the story originally broke that there was a grand jury investigation into the alleged abuse(s) and cover-up by Penn State officials.

I am not saying I agree with the big to-do that happened at the court house, but it is just human nature I guess. Many of the people that went to the court house to find out first hand about the verdict had ties to Penn State.

A lot of people thought Sandusky was going to go free. The whole story hit home for many people in this area.

I personally am glad it is over because I am tired of it dominating our local news every evening.

Got it.

I do think that there is a macabre attraction to stuff like this.

People that are not connected to a case are the strange ones. There was a fight for seats at the Casey Anthony trial-that made me laugh.

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I do believe in justice and people paying for their crimes against a community.

I find that the press/media coverage goes way over the top to rattle the cage of the folks in whatever area the crime takes place.

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On the Paterno connection?

JP knew, or had info about what was going on. I thought that his informing the uni and whoever else that needed to know was just enough to 'protect' his program. There have been smaller scandals that have ruined collegiate sports programs.

What did the Duke Lacrosse scandal do to that program?

There is quite a bit of healing to be done. And it happens on different schedules.

I understand the need for a community/neighborhood to feel safer about a thug/criminal bring brought to justice.
It's the 'dancing on the grave' stuff that goes on that make me think we are going back to the middle ages....

I saw that the lawyer for JS was on the steps of the CH and people were getting kinda frisky while he was making a statement. By the same token? The Atty Gen comes out to applause and cheers.

Like, what did she do in the courtroom?

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Off topic?

Who was the woman who showed up at a courthouse and took out a jerk who had molested her son? She went to jail and ended up with breast cancer. I can see her face but cannot remember her name.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Got it.


By the same token? The Atty Gen comes out to applause and cheers.

Like, what did she do in the courtroom?

It is really very simple. The case may not have even been in the courtroom without her efforts.

[RICHARD]

It is really very simple. The case may not have even been in the courtroom without her efforts.

You misunderstood the question......the lawyers did all the scut work and that makes her a vital cog in the system?

I got my degree from watching reruns of Law and Order. She would have sent out the lawyers, had they lost.

In the end it just adds to the 'show' and gives her brownie points, it worked for Kathryn Harris.

[Edwina's Secretary]

You misunderstood the question......the lawyers did all the scut work and that makes her a vital cog in the system?

Perhaps you misunderstand the process. She took over the case and got it through the grand jury process - against some rather significant political odds. The Attorney General is the "supervisor" of the case. Making decisions - planning stategy - overall responsibility.

Indeed a VERY vital cog in the system.

Perhaps a little less T.V. - a little more real world would aid in understanding how it works.

[Catty1]

RICHARD - Ellie Nesler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Nesler

She died in 2008.

[RICHARD]

RICHARD - Ellie Nesler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Nesler

She died in 2008.

Thanks,

I for the life of me, could not remember her name.

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I do like to watch the clip shows of people going off in a courthouse, does that count as fake or real TV?

[Edwina's Secretary]

To paraphrase another make-believe character..."snark* is as snark does."

I cannot understand anyone cutting Paterno any slack. A leader? Please. He is given information that someone on his team is possibly raping children...in "his" facility. His only response is to report it to his superiors??? Not even a follow up call..."Say...did you find anything out about this guy who works for me who may be raping children?" Wouldn't he want to know if this allegation - rather heinous - was true or false? If it was false - wanting to clear his name - if it was true - to get him out of there!!! I just cannot imagine if someon who worked for me was accused of such a thing that reporting it to my superiors would relieve my conscious of all responsibility.

To him a game - a game with grown men running up and down a field and jumping on each other - was more important than saving children from rape.

[RICHARD]

Perhaps you misunderstand the process. She took over the case and got it through the grand jury process - against some rather significant political odds. The Attorney General is the "supervisor" of the case. Making decisions - planning stategy - overall responsibility.

Indeed a VERY vital cog in the system.

Perhaps a little less T.V. - a little more real world would aid in understanding how it works.

Is she like the old man Jack McCoy works for? He sits in his office and just decides stuff instead of actually trying the case, then at the end takes the credit?

Oh, so it is just like on T.V.

Without the commercials for lawyers looking to sue companies for bad mesh, spinal surgeries and car crashes.

I've lived in the real world way too much.

I use snark to make a point. I'm sorry people don't have their snark-o-meters in for a 10,000 mile tuneup.