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You may recall for those of you who have been with this case from the beginning, that we said that we had a tidal wave of public opinion against jerry sandusky and the charges filed against him that he had been determined to be guilty by the public and the media from the very outset of the charges and that we had an uphill battle. i used the analogy that we were attempting to climb mt. everest from the bottom of the mountain. well, obviously, we didn't make it. we always felt, we always felt that jerry's fairest shake would come from a center county jury and we still believe that. the jury obv...
As a legal strategy position that to put jerry on the stand to set him up to have matt come in to this jury and testify against swloim absolutely destroyed whatever chances he had at acquittal. and so, upon our advice as his attorneys, he reluctantly agreed not to testify, and of course, that resulted in matt sandusky not testifying. and we felt that that might at least give jerry an opportunity to be acquitted of some if not more of the charges involved against him. so that was the reason jerry didn't testify in his trial, contrary to my openingra, that he intended to. i didn't smoke screen y...
His parents, siblings were distraught by it. nevertheless, that's what we were facing. jerry said that matt has had problems ever since matt was with them and that these problems had led matt at times to do things that were irrational. matt had had problems as a juvenile and that there were explanations for it, but unfortunately, as i've said to jerry, that if matt were to testify, because of the fact that this was a surprise situation, the jury would undoubtedly believe him, regardless of what evidence they had. >> joe, can we hear from the prosecution team now? >> jerry indicated he was disa...
There temporarily recently. and apparently, there was some issue with his home life where he was staying with his parents. >> joe, what are some of the grounds for the appeal? >> well, we had the continuance request for one. we have the inability of at least one of our experts to appear in court. we have the voluminous amounts of discovery materials we got as close as two to three weeks before the trial which we didn't have a chance to review. i don't know what you folks thought about the trial but we were running many days by the seat of our pants just trying to catch up. maybe it didn't look...