[NU Sports] McQueary remains on staff

Thu Nov 10 23:07:50 CST 2011

The primary purpose of bail is to ensure the defendant's appearance in
court.

In some cases, as we all know, a high bail can be required when there's a
finding of a substantial likelihood of harm to others. My guess is that the
judge's reasoning went like this: 1. State College is a small place. 2. Mr.
Sandusky is exceedingly well-known and unlikely to harm anyone else right
now because everyone in town is watching him. 3. Indeed, in these moments,
the person to whom Mr. Sandusky may well pose the most danger is himself.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Evans Schoeman <eschoeman at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> It's certainly understandable, but I find it incredibly ironic that almost
> no
> one is talking about the perpretator of this tragedy.
>
> I'm no lawyer, but could any of the attorneys out there comment on why
> Sandusky
> is out on a seemingly-insignificant $100,000 bail?  If ever there's a
> danger to
> the community, it would seem to be him.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "hakirsch at aol.com" <hakirsch at aol.com>
> To: neonrye at aol.com; Michael Vance <michael.vance at att.net>;
> nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com; Northwestern Wildcats <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Sent: Thu, November 10, 2011 5:55:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] McQueary remains on staff
>
> Paul
>
> Point is well taken if I was witness to further acts.
>
> Harry
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: neonrye at aol.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:49:34
> To: <hakirsch at aol.com>; Michael Vance<michael.vance at att.net>;
> <nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com>; Northwestern Wildcats<nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Reply-To: neonrye at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] McQueary remains on staff
>
> Harry,
>
> I agree with your initial premise, but would you still "feel good" at ages
> 24,
> 25, 26, etc., when Sandusky kept coming around with young boys??!!
>
> Paul
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hakirsch at aol.com
> Sender: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:21:55
> To: Michael Vance<michael.vance at att.net>; <nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com>;
> Northwestern Wildcats<nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Reply-To: hakirsch at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] McQueary remains on staff
>
> I inclined to have some of SJT's views here as well as Dennis'. It easy to
> say
> we would do the right thing but for a low man at  his age 22-25 ? at the
> time he
> probably figured he did his responsibility and didn't want to risk anything
> going forward
>
>
> I would hope had I been his age I would have done more but I could see
> myself at
> 23  feeling good about reporting it and let the powers that be handle it
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Vance <michael.vance at att.net>
> Sender: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:58:14
> To: Northwestern Wildcats<nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] McQueary remains on staff
>
> Stephen-
>
> My only problem with that is that he stuck around. If you are correct in
> your
> proposition that McQueary was simply too intimidated to say anything, he
> could
> have left the program any time in the last nine years. He could have told
> Paterno that he thought it was the right thing for his career to get some
> experience outside of the PSU system, gotten a letter of recommendation,
> and
> with that, gotten a job anywhere. But instead, he chose to stay among
> those who
> hid what he saw. Sorry, I don't have much sympathy for him.
>
> -Michael
> Sent from my mobile device...
>
> On Nov 10, 2011, at 5:40 PM, "SjT \(Stephen J. Truog\)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > McQueary is not innocent in all this like the players, so I won't defend
> him
> >with the voracity I used against the absurd suggestion to give the student
> >athletes on the team the "death penalty" ... BUT ...
> >
> > He's a grad assistant and sees a living legend on campus committing a
> crime -
> >someone with powerful friends in high places and he is recognized as a
> witness.
> >He reports it to an even bigger living legend on campus and never hears
> anything
> >back.
> >
> > What is he to assume? Either JoePa didn't take it up the ladder or the
> people
> >up the ladder rejected it -- in either case, the guy is being protected by
> >someone at PSU and who is he? Just some graduate assistant. If he presses
> the
> >issue, he can assume he will be fired, blacklisted or worse.
> >
> > It's something he'll have to live with and it's inexcusible, but he had
> to
> >decide whether he wanted to accept what the powers that be had apparently
> >decided or push the issue and become a whistleblower, which takes great
> risk and
> >usually comes with attacks and questions of its own (just ask anyone who's
> >brought up sexual misconduct charges against a powerful political figure,
> or an
> >employee trying to expose corruption in corporate America).
> >
> > It's easy to say what we would do in his shoes - but hopefully we'll
> never have
> >to be faced with that decision for real.
> >
> > In any case, he's not the person the media mob of madness should be
> swarming
> >right now in their search for unquenchable headlines and justice. They
> need to
> >be on the lawns of Spanier, Sandusky and the AD ... dig into the files of
> the
> >university and local police, judges and district attorneys who knew of
> this ...
> >heck, they should be looking into the board of trustees themselves and
> what type
> >of environment they fostered and the type of people they hired (and why
> they
> >said they were shocked).
> >
> > McQueary is not the iconic coach who had nothing to fear from blowing the
> >whistle, nor the people in power who knew more and did less -- he's the
> low man
> >on the totem poll who was too weak to follow up on a report of a crime
> (though
> >he did at least report it, which a lot of witnesses do not even do)
> because he
> >saw all of the people in power around him wanting to look the other way.
> >
> > Not a profile in courage to be sure, but also not someone I want to
> focus the
> >spotlight on in the search for justice.
> >
> > - Stephen
> >
> > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> > STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> > sjtruog at yahoo.com
> > GO CATS!!! GEAUX SAINTS!!!
> > Super Bowl XLIV Champions!
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Jim Leonard <jleonard518 at yahoo.com>
> > To: Northwestern Wildcats <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:46 PM
> > Subject: [NU Sports] McQueary remains on staff
> >
> > NU Friends,
> >
> > I am at a loss to understand how Mike McQueary remains on the payroll at
> Penn
> >State. By his own sworn grand jury testimony he saw a young boy being
> abused.
> >His only actions were to call his father and later tell Joe Paterno. For
> years
> >after that he must have seen Sandusky on campus and bowl trips with more
> young
> >children. I don't know how he can live with himself.
> >
> >
> > A) He could have intervened in the shower room.
> > B) He could have pulled the fire alarm and then run to a phone.
> > C) He could have made an anonymous call to the police (his father could
> have
> >too, what's wrong with that guy?)
> > D) He could have made follow-up inquiries to several different people.
> >
> > Since 1993 Penn State has been my second favorite Big Ten team. If they
> allow
> >him to remain on the payroll and represent the school on Saturday, that
> is over.
> >
> >
> > To be clear, my issue with him has NOTHING to do with the law or legal
> >obligations. It had everything to do with being a person of clear
> conscience and
> >good character. Sadly, I think the reason that he has been kept on staff
> is that
> >if he is fired he's free to talk and he'll have A LOT more to say.
> >
> >
> > Success with Honor - what a joke.
> >
> > Jim
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