Sandusky returning to Pennsylvania court to press appeal for new trial

[Sports News]

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Convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach at Penn State University, returns to court on Thursday in his effort to get a new trial. Sandusky, 71, will seek to persuade Senior Judge John Cleland, who presided at the 2012 trial where the ex-coach was found guilty of sexually assaulting children, to allow him to take steps toward researching the competence of his lawyers and whether his rights were violated at trial. “Mr. Sandusky's due process right to a fair trial was not only infringed, it was crushed under a stampede of vitriol, rage, and prejudice that mandate a new trial in this case,” wrote his lawyer, Alexander Lindsay, in court papers before the hearing in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.

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