HARRISBURG, Pa. — Three former Penn State officials head to a state appellate court on Tuesday in a last-ditch bid to avoid trial on charges they tried to hamper an investigation of the child molestation case against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Lawyers for former Penn State President Graham Spanier, former athletic director Timothy Curley and former university vice president Gary Schultz were expected to argue that the men did not receive effective legal representation from then-university lawyer Cynthia Baldwin when they appeared before a grand jury investigating Sandusky’s crimes.
Oral arguments in the case in Superior Court in Harrisburg come after the three men were charged in 2012 with perjury, obstruction, child endangerment, criminal conspiracy and failure to report suspected child abuse for not reporting Sandusky's assaults on boys.