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Court date set for Sandusky resentencing

Warren County President Judge Maureen Skerda has set a date for the resentencing of Jerry Sandusky.

In a Tuesday order, Skerda scheduled the resentencing for Nov. 8, in Centre County Court.

Sandusky, 75, a former Penn State assistant football coach, was sentenced in 2012 to 30 to 60 years in prison after being found guilty of 45 counts of child sexual abuse.

His attorneys challenged the sentence, and appealed the conviction, after the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled some mandatory minimum sentences, including those applied to Sandusky’s case, were unconstitutional in 2014. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court have also ruled mandatory minimum sentences to be unconstitutional.

The Superior Court did not find cause for a new trial, but did order a new sentence be handed down.

Skerda was assigned to the case earlier this month after Jefferson County Judge John Foradora recused himself for reasons unrelated to the Sandusky case.

Foradora took over for McKean County Judge John Cleland, who had presided over the case from the beginning. Cleland was appointed after all of the Centre County judges recused themselves.

Cleland removed himself from the case in 2016 after Sandusky’s attorneys “impugned” his integrity.

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