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GUILTY AS CHARGED Sandusky is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted on all but three of the 48 counts against him. Sandusky verdict – guilty on 45 of 48 counts – brings little solace 'We've all lost' JURISPRUDENCE
BY NATE BAUER nbauer@bluewhiteonline.com
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ELLEFONTE, Pa. – The free rein of a serial pedophile has come to an end.
Jerry Sandusky is in jail. A middle-aged Centre County resi-
dent, referred to as Juror No. 4, delivered the news to Sandusky, reading the jury's verdict on each of
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the 48 counts charged by the com- monwealth. The first two verdicts – guilty on charges of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse – would have been sufficient to put Sandusky in jail for the rest of his life. Asked to stand and face his punishment, however, Sandusky stared blankly at the juror's box as 46 more verdicts were read off. Guilty. Again and again, by an
overwhelming margin. Convicted on 45 of 48 counts, the
longtime Penn State defensive coor- dinator was formally judged late Friday night, June 22, for his crimes against young boys. With its verdict, which required a little more than 20 hours of deliberation, the jury determined Sandusky's guilt was definite, and without a shadow of a doubt.
"I just looked at him during the
reading of the verdict," juror Joshua Harper, a 31-year-old science teacher at Bellefonte Area High School, told NBC's "Today" show. "The look on his face with no real emotion – he was just accepting it because it was true." Finding his victims through The
Second Mile, the charity he founded in 1977, Sandusky, 68, was proven
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