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The judge has issued several rulings ahead of the start of jury selection June 5th in the Jerry Sandusky trial.
The media will not be allowed to tweet, blog or communicate electronically from the courtroom during the child sexual abuse trial of the former Penn State assistance football coach. Judge John Cleland reversed part of an earlier Decorum Order that would have allowed reporters to tweet during the trial.
The judge has also denied requests from alleged victims 3,4,5 and 7 to keep their identities concealed during the trial. In his ruling, the judge said that there is no support in Pennsylvania law for offering anonymity to an adult witness because the witness is one of a class of victims of a particular crime.
Judge Cleland is denying a request by Sandusky’s lawyer to order prosecutors to turn over information they collected about potential jurors.
Later in the day, the state Supreme Court denied a request to delay the trial. Sandusky’s attorneys had turned to the state’s highest court after the judge and a state Superior Court panel also rejected the motion to delay.
Two Penn State officials charged with lying to a grand jury in the university’s child sex-abuse scandal have been held for trial after a preliminary hearing in Harrisburg Friday.
Lawyers for Tim Curley and Gary Schultz say their clients will be exonerated at trial.
Schultz’s attorney questioned the actions of assistant coach Mike McQueary in not reporting to police what he saw in a locker room shower in 2002. McQueary had earlier told the judge he saw former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky in a shower naked, hugging a young boy from behind. He said he believed what he saw was intercourse between Sandusky and the boy.
Curley’s attorney called the charge of perjury an unusual type of charge in Pennsylvania.
Curley has stepped aside from his post as athletic director to fight the allegations. Schultz has returned to retirement.