Penn State ex-president Spanier leaves jail after 2 months
Spanier also was sentenced to two years of probation, a $7,500 fine and 200 hours of community service.
Spanier also was sentenced to two years of probation, a $7,500 fine and 200 hours of community service.
Spanier was supposed to report by July 9, but an inmate locator shows he’s already in custody at a county jail several miles from the Penn State campus. Spanier was charged over his response to a 2001 report that Sandusky had been spotted showering alone with a boy in a football team locker room.
Spanier was charged in 2012 and convicted by a jury in March 2017, but appeals had allowed him to stay out of jail.
The attorney general’s office wrote in a letter to Judge John Boccabella that no legal impediment prevents him from enforcing the minimum sentence of two months in jail, followed by two months of house arrest.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in a release that Spanier “turned a blind eye to child abuse by not reporting his knowledge of Jerry Sandusky’s assaults to law enforcement.”
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals focused on whether Graham Spanier was wrongly convicted under a 2007 law for acts that occurred in 2001. The three judges did not say when they might rule.