Judge threw out ex-Penn State president's conviction, less than a day before he was due to turn himself in to begin serving a jail sentence.
A federal judge threw out former Penn State President Graham Spanier's misdemeanor child-endangerment conviction on Tuesday, less than a day before he was due to turn himself in to begin serving a jail sentence.
Mehalchick agreed with Spanier that he was improperly charged under a 2007 law for actions that occurred in 2001, when he was responding to a complaint about former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy on campus. Spanier, 70, was forced out as Penn State president shortly after Sandusky was arrested in 2011 on child molestation charges. A year later, Spanier was accused of a criminal cover-up, although many of those charges were dismissed by an appeals court. The jury acquitted him of what remained by the time of his trial, except for the single count of child endangerment.
But the judge did not agree with their argument that the statute of limitations had been improperly applied. Spanier has said the abuse of the boy, who has never been conclusively identified, was characterized to him as horseplay.
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