Jerry Sandusky will be back in Centre County Court in November to receive a new sentence for his child sexual abuse convictions.
The resentencing is scheduled for Nov. 8, according to an order filed Tuesday. Sandusky, the former Penn State football assistant coach and founder of the Second Mile charity for at-risk youth, will be brought to Bellefonte from SCI-Laurel Highlands, where he is serving his current 30-60 year sentence.
After a decision by the state Superior Court earlier this year, Sandusky was originally scheduled to be resentenced in September, but that was put on hold when specially-presiding Judge John Foradora, of Jefferson County, recused himself. Foradora, who had been overseeing the case at the county court level since 2017, cited an unrelated but unspecified recent action by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office in stepping aside.
Judge Maureen Skerda, president judge of the Warren-Forest County Court of Common Pleas, subsequently was assigned to handle the resentencing.
In February, a state Superior Court panel denied Sandusky a new trial but ordered that he be resentenced because trial Judge John Cleland improperly applied mandatory minimum sentences when he sentenced Sandusky to 30 to 60 years in state prison. Prosecutors argued the Superior Court could merely strip the mandatory minimum designations while maintaining the sentence structure, but the appellate judges said they did not have the authority to do so.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court in July declined to hear Sandusky’s arguments for a new trial, exhausting his appeals at the state level.
Sandusky, 75, was convicted in June 2012 on 45 counts related to child sexual abuse.
