Butler lawyer vows to fight on for Sandusky
Jerry Sandusky's lawyer celebrated a recent finding by the state's Superior Court that Sandusky's mandatory minimum sentence for child sex abuse is unconstitutional. But the court's decision also rejected a request for a new trial, prompting attorney Al Lindsay to declare Wednesday in Butler that he will continue the fight in the state's Supreme Court.
“We are fighting with everything we have,” Lindsay said. “We will fight like the devil.”
The legal battle continues over Sandusky, the ex-Penn State assistant football coach who was convicted in 2012 to 30 to 60 years in prison for molesting adolescent and teenage boys. And part of that battle, Lindsay said, requires developing a media strategy to amplify Lindsay's argument that Sandusky “wasn't given a fair shot.”
“It wasn't one big conspiracy,” he said. “We're saying there's a 100 little conspiracies.”
The Superior Court noted that his sentence contradicts a recent Supreme Court decision striking down certain mandatory minimum sentences because they were not deliberated by a jury.
Lindsay noted that Sandusky's resentencing phase that the Superior Court ordered will not be made until Lindsay has exhausted all of his options for a retrial appeal. Those efforts will now take the case to the state's highest court and, if that doesn't work, Linsday noted that bringing the case to the federal level would be possible.
“We're going to get an acquittal,” Lindsay said. “This prosecution is fatally flawed.”
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