Pa. judge to consider Sandusky jury, bail issues

By Mark Scolforo

Associated Press

Published: Friday, Feb. 10 2012 1:10 a.m. MST

In this Dec. 13, 2011 photo, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives for a preliminary hearing at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. A hearing is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 to consider Jerry Sandusky's request to see his grandchildren _ prosecutors don't even want him out on his back porch _ and whether a jury should be brought in from outside Centre County.

Matt Rourke, Associated Press

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Summary

A dispute about whether people from the State College area will be allowed to sit as jurors in Jerry Sandusky's child sex-abuse case is the subject of a hearing in a Pennsylvania courtroom.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — A dispute about whether people from the State College area will be allowed to sit as jurors in Jerry Sandusky's child sex-abuse case is the subject of a hearing in a Pennsylvania courtroom.

The proceeding Friday at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte (BEHL'-fahnt) is also expected to address Sandusky's request to have contact with his grandchildren and others while he awaits trial on 52 criminal counts.

Prosecutors want bail conditions toughened for the 68-year-old former Penn State assistant football coach, so that he wouldn't be allowed outside his home except for medical treatment.

Other matters Judge John Cleland must decide include how much information prosecutors should have to turn over to Sandusky's lawyers, and how quickly they have to do it.

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