“If he were my client,” says defense attorney Phil Masorti, “I would hope I would be able to distinguish that while these interviews may be good for me as his lawyer, they may not be good for him as my client … I watched that interview. It killed [Sandusky].”
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To put a client on TV under those circumstances would take “a gun to my head,” says Centre County, Pa., trial attorney James Bryant…
“I don’t think Joe made the decision,” says Bryant. “Jocks love to talk—and one of the earmarks of a pedophile is they don’t think they did anything wrong. My gut is that Joe had his hands full.”
Norris Gelman, a criminal defender in Philadelphia, speculates: “Sandusky wanted to go on and tell people he was not guilty.”
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