HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Former Penn State President Graham Spanier has asked a county judge to throw out charges accusing him of helping cover up abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

Spanier's lawyers filed the motion last week, citing his allegation that the university's former top lawyer, Cynthia Baldwin, violated attorney-client confidentiality when she gave prosecutors information about him. He also argued that some of the charges were filed after the statute of limitations had run out.

His attorney, Elizabeth Ainslie, said Wednesday the criminal case remains on hold while Spanier's co-defendants, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, ask the state Supreme Court to review a recent decision by the grand jury judge that he did not have jurisdiction to throw out their charges.

"We're waiting for the Supreme Court to decide the issues that are very similar to our issues," she said.

Spanier, she said, also has raised "legal issues relating to statutory interpretation. For instance, whether Dr. Spanier could conceivably be considered a supervisor of any of the children who were victims of Mr. Sandusky."

Sandusky, 69, is serving a 30- to 60-year state prison sentence after being convicted last year of 45 counts for the sexual abuse of 10 boys. He maintains his innocence and is pursuing appeals.

Spanier was forced out as president after Sandusky's arrest but remains a faculty member while fighting the accusations that he and other administrators committed crimes as they responded to complaints about the former defensive coach.

Spanier was charged in November along with Curley, the school's former athletic director, and Schultz, a retired vice president.

The three men face charges of perjury, obstruction, endangering the welfare of children, failure to properly report suspected abuse and conspiracy.


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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Finally..........
    June 22, 2012 6:21 pm
    Many young men can sleep a bit easier - but never totally easy - knowing that Sandusky, at least, will never violate another child again.
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  • R L M 456 wrote...
    Sandusky's wifey
    June 22, 2012 6:31 pm
    Better hurry up and max out all her Credit Cards

    She might have a little less Bling-Bling in the future

    Hope she thinks her years of silence was worth it

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  • MossBro wrote...
    Use the Phone !!!
    June 22, 2012 6:40 pm
    For all you LameBrains out there who defend Joe Paterno in this Terrible Situation by saying Joe did his part by reporting Sandusky's Actions to the University......Joe should have picked up the Phone and called the Police and then taken that same phone and Beat Sandusky to death with it !!!
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  • soo purletiv wrote...
    Why would the judge deny bail?
    June 22, 2012 6:55 pm
    Chances are he would run, get caught and shot, or commit suicide.

    Not the violent type, but wouldn't that be a win win for the state?

    Regardless. Life behind bars for the damage he caused to these men is not long enough! But it will have to suffice......

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  • GardenGal wrote...
    Accomplice wife should be in jail too.
    June 22, 2012 7:24 pm
    There is no way she did not know what he was doing. If he threatened her with death or any other with death, death is short but guilt is forever, I'd choose death. This is only the beginning!!!
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  • sweetpea123 wrote...
    The victims have already been sentenced...
    June 22, 2012 7:51 pm
    for a life without a way to shed the memories of what happened. Jerry Sandusky actually deserves the death penalty. Anyone who abuses and rapes a child does...(just my opinion)
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  • dragonmeteor wrote...
    idiots
    June 23, 2012 12:46 am
    If you kill someone for killing, or in this case raping, other people, you are just as bad as that person who committed the crimes. Legal or illegal, you are pretty much a criminal for taking another man's life. Let them rot in jail. That way, they can suffer for as long as possible
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Well alrighty then
    June 22, 2012 7:55 pm
    Maybe he can start up his 2 mile club in the pen for abused inmates.
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  • kurtthekraut wrote...
    Ex-Penn St. assistant ,.....
    June 22, 2012 8:04 pm
    now the new star tight-end for St. Penn.
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  • TYR wrote...
    Kraut
    June 22, 2012 8:17 pm
    Good one.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    Soon to be
    June 22, 2012 8:19 pm
    Wide receiver....
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  • I_see_stupid_people wrote...
    Let me see if I've got this right...
    June 22, 2012 9:16 pm
    All 10 of you boys were willing to take a dikk in the arse so that you could watch free football games? Something smells fishy here, but then again I am in America: The country where people send free money to a bus monitor because she failed to do her job and discipline those who she was monitoring. It all makes sense in your small minds I'm sure, but I'm baffled by the mass stupidity .
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  • ShwaggyD wrote...
    I_see_stupid_people...when you look in the mirror?
    June 23, 2012 12:04 am
    What, you accuse young CHILDREN of trading sex for football tickets? Are you serious with that comment?!? Those kids hadn't even reached puberty yet when that sick f uq assaulted them sexually. He used tickets and other 'gifts' to lure them into trusting him, them destroyed their fragile lives. He targeted the ones who he knew he could mentally control and manipulate into giving in to his perverted urges, telling them lies about how he loved them and how that made it all okay. You really think these kids wanted his abuse and were willing to give up their innocence and souls for football tickets? Really? Come on, think about what you just wrote. As for being in America, yes you are. Don't like it, pack up and go back to whereever you immigrated from. Nobady is begging you to stay.
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  • I_see_stupid_people wrote...
    really?
    June 23, 2012 12:28 am
    shwaggle dizzle thinks he has claim to America? get real negroid. You know that if logic is used this whole case smells funny. You have to believe that the whole coaching staff was ok child molesters, that his wife was ok with it, and that all these guys were ok with others being molested as shown by them remaining quiet when they are all clearly old enough to know better. This whole charade is about money, and you bought the hype...just as you most likely bought the hope and change hype. Now go back to your looney nancy grace show and stop showing us all how retarded you are.
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  • ShwaggyD wrote...
    All about the money?
    June 23, 2012 3:23 am
    What are you, a shill for Sandusky? The only thing that smells funny is your logic you used to come up with that theory. According to your logic Jerry was having consentual sex with 10 year old boys in public with the blessings of everyone around him. All the coaches and eveyone else conspired with Sandusky to keep him from getting caught? Your logic lso accuses the kids of first selling themselves freely to your pal Jerry for tickets to games, and a future payout. Your logic says the kids volunteered, therefore Jerry isn't a predatory pedophile. It's either that or you really think Sandusky is a saint and everyone was and is lying. Which one is it great and knowledgeable one? Truth is, your words are what you are smelling. It's obvious you know nothing about children or child psychology. You know nothing about why children fall victim to predators, why they keep quiet, or the emotional burden they must carry for the rest of their lives. That you kow nothing of these things in itself is not a bad thing; most wouldn't unless they were involved in the field of psychology. What is bad is when you flap your ignorant gums acting like you know what you are talking about. Go back to yelling obsenities at the fool you see in your mirror and leave the logic to other people for a while. Oh, yes, I almost forgot. I DO have a claim to America, just like every other American. Got a problem with that? Too bad, call someone who cares. Was the negroid, nancy grace show, and/or retard comments supposed to be insulting?!? Hmmm, I'd say you failed in tha area as well...
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  • I_see_stupid_people wrote...
    the fact that your proud to watch nancy grace says it all
    June 23, 2012 12:04 pm
    As for you claims of being a psychiatrist, they are laughable. It is sad that you let people molest you, I'll give you that one. What's going on here is either we believe that everyone around sandusky was ok with what was going on, or it never really happened. Your theory isn't logical, so go back to the street corner and hold your trayvon sign with the rest of the "my baby was just starting to turn his life around" idiots.
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