Despite a ruling denying motions to preclude Cynthia Baldwin, the former Penn State general counsel, from testifying against three ex-university administrators in a criminal case stemming from the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal, the question of whether she will ever take the stand is still very much up in the air.
On Jan. 17, Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Todd A. Hoover, who is presiding over the cases against former university President Graham Spanier, ex-vice president of business and finance Gary Schultz and ex-athletic director Tim Curley, each of whom is accused of conspiring to cover up incidents of child sexual abuse by Sandusky, blocked for now their effort to preclude Baldwin from testifying because of attorney-client privilege.
