Sandusky, plea deal or full trial? (case, evidence, defense, lawyer)
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Although I understand logic re: above responses re: his attorney doing his best to make sure his client is NOT pulverized in court, and therefore asking for a plea deal, I think both the public outrage would be so enormous AND the prosecutor would have so much pressure on him too NOT to have a plea deal AND many of the victims' families will be outraged that their kids cannot have their day in Court.. full trial.
If Sandusky has smart attorney's, not ones that want to bleed him for money, they will tell him to settle, and take a plea. This guy looks pretty nailed if you ask me. He would be not too smart to have this dirty laundry spread all out for everyone to see every detail, in minute detail...
Although I understand logic re: above responses re: his attorney doing his best to make sure his client is NOT pulverized in court, and therefore asking for a plea deal, I think both the public outrage would be so enormous AND the prosecutor would have so much pressure on him too NOT to have a plea deal AND many of the victims' families will be outraged that their kids cannot have their day in Court.. full trial.
Yes however his attorneys "job" is to make sure that his dignity is preserved. He has so far gone out of his way to do so and I see that continuing. He will not take a chance that his client will meltdown in court. He would be looked upon badly for letting that happen in the legal circles. At least that is how the game which I have seen is played.
Isn't it also the attorney's job to do as his client wishes. So if Sandusky says "we're going to trial" don't they have to? Or Sandusky can fire them.
Just asking.
I just think Sandusky is sick enough to drag this into the courtroom. However, the pre-trial hearing fiasco does give me a small glimmer of hope that there will be a deal made. But I'm not betting on it.
I see this going to trial, based primarily on the hubris of the prosecution. No doubt seeing himself in the limelight for months as the great defender of inncent children, putting away perverts like Sandusky. It will no doubt be a long trial.
"like people who profess their innocence generally do"
Sometimes people ARE innocent, would we want THEM taking a plea deal to something they didn't do?
Actually happens more often than we could know. However, it's kinda darned if you do, darned if you don't.
It's his right. We may not like him, and we all may think he's guilty as sin, but he has the same right we all should have.
Yes it's his right ... the great American way ... Justice for all.
It's a personal quandry for me because, due to a physical issue, I was only peripherally exposed to "jock culture" as a sports manager in high school. I did see enough to recognize that the undertones of "locker room cameraderie" were always present. And ironically, it was in college, at Penn State, that I came to terms, not with my limitations, but with my potential at a purely physical level; (I was still pretty much of a "wuss" even in Senior High).
For those reasons, and because I do believe that both the increase in single-paernt, usually-female-headed households, and the weakening of the taditional two-parent partnership, with hurt on both sides, is short-changing many of our young men, I feel especially betrayed by what is alleged to have happened under the banner of the Second Mile. But unlike some of the most fervent of the lynch mob, I believe it needs recogniton that:
(1) there is a well-organized cadre over there in far-Left field that has little respect for college athletics in any form.
(2) that Penn State, by reason of both its long-standing policy of promoting from within its program and the financial success thereof, makes a very inviting target for the "culture of blame and lawsuit" which shares a lot of goals in line with the group cited in point (1)
Until more of the light of official investigation is shone on those issues, I will continue to reserve final judgement.
Last edited by 2nd trick op; 02-06-2012 at 10:45 PM..
Sardusky went to work everyday with his head held high as though he'd done nothing wrong.
He's got nerves of steel and the arrogance as well. Those type of people don't crack or have meltdowns.
Oh? A good prosecutor could get in this man's "area" and blow him up like a grenade imo.He had his head up high when he was NOT called to account. Now he is.
He is already indignant that he is being charged and prosecuted. He's pissed that he has to defend himself. He's a mad dog waiting to bark.
I say blow him up like a toy balloon on the stand and let him pop.
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