Pa. high court will not hear Sandusky appeal

Associated Press

HARRISBURG, Pa.

The state’s highest court said Wednesday it would not review Jerry Sandusky’s child-molestation conviction, but other legal avenues remain open to the former Penn State assistant football coach.

Sandusky had asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to take up his 45-count conviction, arguing his lawyers were rushed too quickly to trial in 2012 and that prosecutors improperly made reference to his decision not to testify. He also said the trial judge should have issued a jury instruction about how long it took his victims to report the abuse and that jurors should not have been told to weigh evidence of his good character against all other evidence.

Sandusky has the right to file a new appeal.