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"Over the years I have brought 15 serious issues before Pennsylvania's courts, each one showing I deserve a new trial," Sandusky said in a voice recording provided to ESPN by Parlato. "Every one was swatted down. I have no faith this one would be treated differently, no matter how compelling the evidence. In federal court, every one of those issues can be heard together by judges who have not already made up their minds about me... I need to get there as fast as possible."
"I am 82 years old. I am innocent. I intend to be alive when the truth is heard."

PA has an elected judiciary. They are politicians first, and jurists second. That is sad truth. Sandusky may get a fairer judge in federal court. It's a crap shoot who the judge is. I've always thought accusations against Sandusky were motivated by a big pay day from the university, which had political pressure put on it to settle claims regardless of how dubious. This guy got a couple of million from Penn State despite writing an affidavit that he was the kid in the shower that McQueary saw with Sandusky no abuse happened. They just had a wet towel fight. The attorneys who brought that claim and hid this guy during the trial should be disbarred.

Apparently, Ryan Rittmeyer, testified anonymously as “Victim 10” during Sandusky's 2012 criminal trial. If he says the abuse didn't happen, then he must return the settlement money. So, he now says he can't remember what happened. Allan Myers was the guy who executed an affidavit that he was the kid in the shower and nothing happened. He gave a sworn statement to Sandusky's lawyers as follows:
"I would usually work out one or two days a week, but this particular night is very clear in my mind. We were in the shower and Jerry and I were slapping towels at each other to sting each other. I would slap the walls and slide on the shower floor, which I am sure you could have heard from the wooden locker area. While we were engaged in fun as I have described, I heard the sound of a wooden locker door close. . . . I never saw who closed the locker. The grand jury report says that Coach McQueary said he observed Jerry and I engaged in sexual activity. That is not the truth and McQueary is not telling the truth. Nothing occurred that night in the shower."

Yet, they couldn't call Myers him at trial. An ambulance chasing attorney convinced him he had been abused and but couldn't remember it and they would get big money from Penn State. Myers was hidden from Sandusky's lawyers during the trial. These sleazeball attorneys got the alleged victims settlements between $1.2 and $20 million, and the university didn't fight any of it. Despite the affidavit denying any abuse Myers got a settlement of $6.9 million. I don't know who paid these claims, but I doubt an insurance company would have been so generous.