general counsel

The Legal Intelligencer's Max Mitchell reports that the murky role of Penn State's general counsel during grand jury proceedings could affect the efforts of prosecutors to hold three university administrators accountable for their actions regarding convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky. "If three ex-Penn State administrators facing charges stemming from failing to properly deal with reports of child sexual abuse by Jerry Sandusky are found to have appeared before a grand jury without proper advice of counsel, their testimony could be incurably affected and even tossed, several white-collar defense attorneys have said," Mitchell writes. Minutes of the grand jury proceedings show that Cynthia Baldwin said she was attending the grand jury proceedings on behalf of Penn State, but the defendants, former university President Graham Spanier, Vice President Gary Schultz and former athletic director Tim Curley, argue they thought Baldwin was their counsel.