Jerry Sandusky Trial on the Peoria.com Forums

Juror 2: A 24-year-old who plans to start school in the fall to study automotive technology. His father worked for 30 years at Penn State in the office of the physical plant.

Juror 3: A woman whose husband is a physician who worked with Mike McQueary's father, John McQueary, before he retired. Amendola asked the judge to strike her, but he didn't. The judge said that in a small town, that's bound to happen, and was reluctant to strike her. Sandusky intervened at that point, and said to his attorney, "I think she can be fair," after hearing that she had season tickets for many years to Penn State football games. The McQueary's are expected to be key witnesses in the case of Victim Two. In that case, Mike McQueary says he stumbled upon Sandusky sexually assaulting a young boy in the Penn State football locker room and reported it to two Penn State officials. Those officials were charged with lying about the incident and never reporting it to police. John McQueary is expected to support his son's testimony.

Juror 7: Penn State rising senior who grew up in Penns Valley, which is in Centre County, and played for Steve Turchetta -- now the Clinton County high school coach who hired Sandusky as a volunteer assistant. Turchetta was the assistant principal at the time Sandusky was first accused by alleged Victim One -- a student at that high school. Juror 7 came wearing a Penn State archery shirt, and works for the athletic department part-time in the multi-sports facility. He read a lot about the case and had opinions, he said, but could put them aside for the trial.

Juror 8: White man in his 60s or 70s. Retired Penn State professor of soil science for 37 years. Said he reads the Centre Daily Times, the local newspaper.

Juror 10: Woman in her 50s who works at Penn State as administrative assistant in engineering. She has two daughters and four grand kids.

Juror 11: A Penn State continuing education instructor of dance. Mother of a 6-year-old boy. Late 30s. When asked about her son by Sandusky's attorney Joe Amendola, she she recognizes kids don't always tell the truth. She also has ties to a witness -- Kelly Hastings, the superintendent of the Clinton County school district where alleged Victim One attended school, and where Sandusky was a volunteer football coach before he was accused.

Juror 12: Woman in her 50s or 60 who has been a Penn State professor for the past 24 years. She worked worked on committee with fired university President Graham Spanier and current president Rodney Erickson for six years. She did not say what she teaches. Sandusky gave a commencement address at her graduation, and she has two sons ages 14 and 16.

The first alternate juror, known as juror 13: Single woman in her 30s, and a 2007 Penn State graduate in health and human development.

joepyeweed writes:
I think someone who has ties to Penn state would be just as likely, or even more likely, to find him guilty for tarnishing the school's reputation.

bigluke23 writes:

That's the thing tho, is that, as a majority, "Penn State Nation" thinks he's innocent.

bigluke23 writes:

That's the thing tho, is that, as a majority, "Penn State Nation" thinks he's innocent.