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Sandusky’s attorneys filed the motion to admit an email exchange between Michael McQueary and Deputy Attorney General Jonelle Esbach into evidence Tuesday morning. In a portion of email exchange attached to the legal filing, McQueary tells Esbach that parts of grand jury report on the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal were incorrect.
Sandusky’s attorneys filed the motion to admit an email exchange between Michael McQueary and Deputy Attorney General Jonelle Esbach into evidence Tuesday morning. In a portion of email exchange attached to the legal filing, McQueary tells Esbach that parts of grand jury report on the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal were incorrect.
Sandusky’s attorneys filed the motion to admit an email exchange between Michael McQueary and Deputy Attorney General Jonelle Esbach into evidence Tuesday morning. In a portion of email exchange attached to the legal filing, McQueary tells Esbach that parts of grand jury report on the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal were incorrect.
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF
CENTRE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
COMMONWEALTH OF I CP-14-CR-2421-2011
CP-14-CR-2422-2011
v.
GERALD A. SANDUSKY,
PETITIONER,
TYPE OF PLEADING:
MOTION TO RE-OPEN THE RECORD
AND/OR ADMIT ATTACHED E-MAIL.
AS AFTER-DISCOVERED EVIDENCE
IN THE NATURE OF BRADY
EVIDENCE
FILED ON BEHALF OF:
PE’
TIONER, GERALD A. SANDUSKY
COUNSEL FOR PETITIONER:
ALEXANDER H. LINDSAY, ESQUIRE
Pa, Supreme Court Id, No. 15088
J. ANDREW SALEMME, ESQUIRE.
Pa. Supreme Court Id. No. 208257
: ‘THE LINDSAY LAW FIRM
110 EAST DIAMOND STREET, STE. 301
BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA 16001
PHONE 724.282.6600
FAX: 724.282.2672
Email: al.lindsay186@gmail.comIN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF
CENTRE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, CP-14-CR-2421-2011
CP-14-CR-2422-2011
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v.
GERALD A. SANDUSKY, : “
HONORABLE JUDGE
PETITIONER. : JOHN FORADO
x,
MOTION TO RE-OPEN THE RECORD and/or ADMIT ATTACHED E=
MAIL AS AFTER-DISCOVERED EVIDENCE in the NATURE OF BRADY
EVIDENCE
AND NOW COMES, Petitioner, Gerald A. Sandusky, by and through his
counsel, Alexander H. Lindsay, Jr., Esq., and J. Andrew Salemme, Esq., and the
Lindsay Law Firm, P.C., and files this Motion to Re-Open the Record and/or Admit
Attached E-Mail as After-Discovered Evidence in the Nature of Brady Evidence and
aver the following:
1, Following the conclusion of evidentiary hearings conducted in this matter,
on July 13, 2017, Petitioner filed Proposed Findings of Fact and
Conclusions of Law,
y
On August 23, 2017, the Commonwealth’s Proposed Findings of Fact and
Conclusions of law were docketed.
»
. On October 10, 2017, the undersigned received a copy of an e-mail,
exchange between Michael McQueary and Jonelle Eshbach. A copy of this
email is attached as Exhibit “A”.
4. This e-mail exchange, which is attached, is evidence that Mr. McQueary’s
statements that he met with his father regarding observing Mr. Sandusky
in the shower with a child the same night is inaccurate as MichaelMcQueary indicates that his father was not actually in town.
wo
. To the extent that the e-mail could be construed as Mr. McQueary stating
that Mr. Paterno was not in town, it is believed and therefore averred that
Mr. Paterno was home and therefore that also would have been
impeachment evidence. See Attached Article, attached as Exhibit “B”.
a
. This e-mail it is averred was never provided to Attorney Amendola.
2
. This exchange is in the nature of impeachment evidence.
8. Counsel previously submitted transcripts of testimony from Jonelle
Eshbach wherein she testified concerning an e-mail exchange in which Mr.
McQueary asserted that the Office of Attorney General had twisted his
words in the grand jury presentment with respect to his alleged observation
of sodomy, see Brief on Evidentiary Hearings, Attachment 2, as well as a
transcript in which Mr. McQueary indicates that the Office of Attorney
General had informed him that they intended to leak certain information.
Sce Exhibit H. None of that information had previously been provided by
the Office of Attorney General.
e
. This additional information is further evidence of the prosecutions’ failure
to turn over Brady impeachment evidence. See 42 Pa.C.S. § 9543(a)(2)(i)
& (vi).
10. Mr. Sandusky would present the testimony of Jonelle Eshbach, Esquire,
Joseph Amendola, Esquire, and Michael McQueary relative to this and any
other relevant e-mail exchanges and inquire as to whether such information
was disclosed and/or received by trial counsel.
WHEREFORE, in order to preserve the Brady claim, Mr. Sandusky requests
that the evidentiary record be re-opened and/or the attached e-mail be admitted into
evidence and the Court consider this additional Brady issue in conjunction with the
previously raised Brady claims.Respectfully submitted,
ALEXANDER H. LINDS.
Pa, Supreme Court Id. No.
Le
J. ANDREW SALEMME, ESQ.
Pa. Supreme Court Id. No. 208257
THE LINDSAY LAW FIRM, P.C.
110 East Diamond Street, Suite 301
Butler, Pennsylvania 16001
Phone: 724.282.6600
Fax: 724.282.2672
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Penn State Confidential: Prosecutor Told McQueary To Clam Up
By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net
On Nov. 10, 2011, six days after the state Attorney General's office released its official grand jury
report on the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal, deputy Attorney General Jonelle Eshbach was trying to
calm Mike McQueary, her distraught star whistle-blower.
McQueary had written Eshbach earlier that day to tell her that the grand jury report that told the
world that McQueary had witnessed a naked Sandusky in the Penn State showers having anal
intercourse with a 10-year-old boy was wrong. In that same email, McQueary complained to the
A.G.'s office that they had “twisted” his words about “whatever it was” that he had actually seen or
heard in the showers.
Now there's a star witness you can have confidence in.
In a second email sent that same day, McQueary complained to Eshbach about "being
misrepresented” in the media. And then McQueary tried to straighten out a couple of
misconceptions, writing that he never went to Coach Joe Paterno’s house with his father, and that
he had never seen Sandusky with a child at a Penn State football practice.
“I know that a lot of this stuff is incorrect and it is hard not to respond," Eshbach emailed McQueary.
"But you cant.”
That email exchange, divulged in a couple of posts by Penn State blogger Ray Blehar, have people in
Penn State Nation talking about prosecutorial misconduct. Naturally, the A.G.'s office has nothing to
say about it, as an office spokesperson declined comment today.
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The 2011 grand jury report said that back when he visited the Penn State showers in 2001, Mike
McQueary heard "rhythmic, slapping sounds.” Then, he peered into the showers and "saw a naked
boy, Victim No. 2, whose age he estimated to be ten years old, with his hands up against the wall,
being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Jerry Sandusky.”
But McQueary wrote Eshbach, while copying Agent Anthony Sassano, "I feel my words are slightly
twisted and not totally portrayed correctly in the presentment.”
"| cannot say 1000 percent sure that it was sodomy. | did not see insertion,” McQueary wrote. "It was
a sextial act and or way over the line in my opinion whatever it was.”
McQueary also complained about the media attention he was getting.
National media, and public opinion has totally, in every single way, ruined me,” MeQueary wrote.
“For what?"
Later that same day, McQueary wrote a secand email to Eshbach and Sassano.
“Also,” McQueary wrote, "I never went to Coach Paterno’s house with my father . .. It was me and
only me . . . he was out of town the night before . . . never ever have | seen JS [Jerry Sandusky]
with a child at one of our practices..."
‘The reference about his father not accompanying him to a meeting with Joe Paterno was probably
McQueary’s attempt to correct a mistake in a Nov. 5, 2011 Sara Ganim story about the grand jury
presentment that ran in the Harrisburg Patriot News.
In her story, Ganim wrote that according to the indictment, "On March 1, 2002, the night before
Spring Break, a Penn State graduate assistant walked into the Penn State football locker room
around 9:30 p.m. and witnessed Sandusky having sex with about 10 years old . . . The next morning,
the witness and his father told head football coach Joe Paterno, who immediately told athletic
director Tim Curley.”
Then, McQueary returned to the subject of the bad publicity he was getting over the grand jury
report.
“Lam being misrepresented in the media," McQueary wrote, “It just is not right.”
‘That's what prompted Eshback to write, "I know that a lot of this stuff is incorrect and it is hard to
to respond. But you can’
Former NCIS and FIS Special Agent John Snedden, a Penn State alum, was blown away by Eshbach’s
email response to McQueary.
“It’s incredible, it’s evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, trying to steer a witness's testimony,”
Snedden said, “It shows that the prosecution's manipulating the information, throwing out what they
don't want and padding what they do want . . . It very strongly suggests a fictitious presentment.”
During the defamation suit McQueary filed against Penn State, Eshbach was swom in as a witness
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and asked to explain what she meant by telling McQueary not to talk.
"My advice to Mr. McQueary not to make a statement was based on the strengthening of my »- and
saving of my case,” Eshbach testified. "I did not want him [McQueary] making statements to the
press at that time that could at some time be used against him in cross-examination. He [McQueary]
was perfectly free to make a statement, but I asked him not to.”
There's another angle to the prosecutorial misconduct story tine -- this email exchange between
McQueary and Eshbach that was reported on by Blehar was not turned over by the prosecution to
defense lawyers during the Sandusky trial and the trial of former Penn State president Graham
Spanier.
While we're on the subject of prosecutorial misconduct, at the Spanier trial, it was McQueary who
testified that during the bye week of the 2011 Penn State football season, he got a call on his cell
phone from the attorney general's office, tipping him off that "We're going to arrest folks and we are
going to leak it out.”
The fact that Mike McQueary didn't see a naked Jerry Sandusky having anal intercourse in the
showers with a 10-year-old boy isn’t the only erroneous assumption that came out of that shoddy
2011 grand jury report, Blehar wrote.
“The Sandusky grand jury presentment of Nov. 4, 2011 provided a misleading account of what
eyewitness Michael McQueary reported to Joe Paterno about the 2001 incident,” Blehar wrote.
“Rather than stating what McQueary reported, it stated he reported ‘what he had seen’ which led
the media and the public to erroneously conclude the specific details were reported to Paterno.”
Keep in mind what the grand jury report. said McQueary had seen -- a naked Sandusky having anal
intercourse in the showers with a 10-year-old boy -- never actually happened, according to
McQueary.
The grand jury report said:
“The graduate assistant went to his office and called his father, reporting to him what he had seen
. The graduate assistant and his father decided that the graduate assistant had to promptly
report what he had seen to Coach Joe Paterno . . . The next morning, a Saturday, the graduate
assistant telephoned Paterno and went to Paterno’s home, where he reported what he had seen.”
Blehar cited the words of Joe Paterno, who issued a statement on Nov. 6, 2011, saying that
McQueary had “at no time related to me the very specific actions contained in the grand jury
report."
McQueary agreed.
On Dec. 6, 2011, McQueary was asked under oath whether he had ever used the term “anal sodomy"
in talking to Paterno,
e never used that term,” McQueary said. “I would have explained to him the positions they were
in roughly, but it was definitely sexual, but | have never used the word anal ar rape in this since day
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So what exactly did you tell Paterno, the prosecutor asked McQueary.
“I gave a brief description of what | saw," McQueary testified. "You don't -- ma‘am, you don't go to
Coach Paterno or at least in my mind and | don't go to Coach Paterno and go into great detail of
sexual acts, | would have never done that with him ever.”
Blehar also points out that not even the jury in the Sandusky case believed that Sandusky had anally
raped Victim No, 2. in the Penn State showers, because they came to a not guilty verdict on the
count of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse,
Blehar then cites four other witnesses in the case who also testified that McQueary never used
sexual terms in describing what he had allegedly seen in the shower.
“Subsequent testimony in numerous proceedings from 2011 through 2017 by John McQueary, Dr.
[John] Dranoy, [former Penn State Athletic Director Tim] Curley and [former Penn State VP Gary]
Schutz confirmed that no explicitly sexual terms were used by McQueary when he described what he
actually saw,” Blehar wrote,
In his second email to Eshbach, McQueary stated, “I never went to Coach Paterno’s house with my
father . . . twas me and only me . . . he was out the night before...”
In the email, McQueary doesn't say who the he was who was out the night before. In his blog post,
Blehar takes the he as a reference to McQueary’s father.
“Wait, what?" Blehar writes. “Paterno was in State College on Friday night. If this statement is true,
then Mike did NOT meet with his father (and Dr. Dranov) immediately after the incident(because
John Sr. was ‘out of town.’)”
“Another fabrication?" writes Blehar. "And the AG knew it.”
In handwritten notes written in 2010, McQueary doesn't mention any meeting with his father and Dr.
Dranoy. Instead, he writes that he “drove to my parents’ house” and “spoke with my father about the
incident and received advice.’
He also reiterates, "to be clear: from the time | walked into the locker room to the time | left was
maybe one minute -- | was hastened & a bit flustered.”
A hazy one-minute memory that McQueary himself admitted he had no idea “whatever it was" he
had actually witnessed
But it was a hazy, one-minute memory that the AG's office wrote an entire grand jury presentment
around. How weak is that?
It was flimsy evidence like this that led Special Agent Snedden to conclude that McQueary was not a
credible witness back in 2012 when Snedden was investigating whether former Penn State President
Spanier deserved to have his high-level security clearance with the federal government renewed.
Snedden wrote a recently declassified 110-page report that concluded there was no cover up at
Penn State because there was no sex crime to cover up,
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Because McQueary gave five different accounts aver the years of what he supposedly witnessed
during that one minute in the Penn State showers,
“Id love to see McQueary’s cell phone records, absent whatever dick pics he was sending out that
day,” Snedden cracked, referring to the day McQueary witnessed the shower incident, and then
called his father to figure out what to do.
"Did he even call his dad?" Snedden wondered.
Snedden renewed his call for an independent investigation of the entire Penn State scandal, and the
attorney general's role in manipulating evidence in the case.
“Anybody who cares about justice needs to be screaming for a special prosecutor in this case,”
‘Snedden said.
John Ziegler, a journalist who has covered the Penn State scandal since day one, agreed.
“This seems like blatant OAG misconduct and an indication that they were acutely aware their case
had major problems," Ziegler wrote in an email, "Eshbach’s response is stunning in that it admits
errors in grand jury presentment and tells Mike to shut up about it.”
Ziegler said the possibility that Mike McQueary never met with his father and Dr. Dranoy, his father’s
boss, in an emergency meeting, if true, was big news.
“This is HUGE for several reasons,” Ziegler wrote. The meeting, which supposedly occurred on the
night McQueary witnessed the shower incident was the “ONLY piece of evidence that has EVER been
consistent with Mike witnessing something horrible/dramatic” in the Penn State showers. And that’s
why "Dranov was brought in to meet with him [Mike McQueary] late on a Friday night in February,”
Ziegler said.
The AG's office, Ziegler speculated, "is desperate for evidence that Mike did something dramatic in
reaction to” witnessing the shower incident.
And if the he McQueary was referring to in the email to Eshbach wasn't his father but was really Joe |
Paterno, Ziegler said, then that’s another problem with the official Penn State story line. Because
according to his family, Joe Paterno was in town that night and presumably available for an
emergency meeting with a distraught assistant who had just witnessed a horrible sex crime in the
shower.
If he reatly did see an anal rape ongoing in the shower, however, does the McQueary story, in any of
its versions, make any sense?
McQueary didn’t rush into the shower and try to save a helpless, 10-year-old boy.
He didn't call the police.
Like Elvis, he just left the building.
pw bial net2017/ penn state-confdental-prosecuto-tolé. Html 7m=1 entIN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF
CENTRE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
CRIMINAL DIVISION
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA CP-14-CR-2421-2011
5 CP-14-CR-2422-2011
¥
GERALD A. SANDUSKY, 5
HONORABLE JUDGE
PETITIONER. JOHN H. FORADORA, PJ.
CERTIFICATE OF SERVI
‘The undersigned hereby certifies that on the 13" day of October, 2017 he caused an exact
copy of the foregoing document to be served in the manner specified, upon the following:
Via U.S, Mail
‘The Honorable John H. Foradora
Jefferson County Courthouse
200 Main Street
Brookville, PA 15825
Assistant Attomey General Jennifer Buck
Office of the Attomey General — Criminal Prosecutions Section
16" Floor Strawberry Square
Harrisburg, PA 17120
Centre County Court Administration
102 South Allegheny Street
Bellefonte, PA 16823
Respectfully submitted,
‘THE LINDSAYLA)¥FIRM, PC,
ALEXANDER H. LINDSAY,
Pa, Supreme Court Id. No. 16088
110 East Diamond Street, Suite)301
Butler, Pennsylvania 16001
Phone: 724.282.6600
Fax: 724.282.2672
Attorney For Gerald A. Sandusky
ESQ.