Attorneys for a number of the victims testifying against former Penn State assistant football coach and convicted child rapist Jerry Sandusky said they were displeased with the court’s decision to release the trial’s transcripts on the Centre County website, complete with the victims’ full names as they were read in court.
Senior Judge John M. Cleland, who was specially assigned to Sandusky’s landmark trial, had already denied a pretrial request from several of the victims asking to testify using pseudonyms, which attorneys now say was the gateway to the posting of unredacted transcripts. In the same June 4 order, however, Cleland said the court and counsel would “cooperate when possible to protect the privacy of all witnesses.”
