STATE COLLEGE (PA)
State College
February 7, 2018
By Geoff Rushton
A panel of Superior Court judges heard oral arguments on Wednesday as former Penn State President Graham Spanier seeks to have his conviction on a charge of endangering the welfare of children overturned.
Spanier was found guilty in March on the misdemeanor charge related to his handling of a 2001 report about Jerry Sandusky, but the jury found him not guilty on a felony child endangerment charge and a felony count of conspiracy.
The two-year statute of limitations had long run out when he was charged in 2012, he argues. Spanier’s attorney, Bruce Merenstein, said trial judge John Boccabella made a post-trial ruling granting an exception for an extension that applies to a child endangerment charge when a minor under the age of 18 was the victim of a sexual offense, until the victim is 50, according to the Associated Press.
That issue was never raised before Boccabella made the post-trial ruling and Spanier’s attorneys had no opportunity to address it, Merenstein argued.
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