Former Penn State president Graham Spanier was due to report to jail Wednesday for a minimum sentence of two months, but his child endangerment conviction was thrown out Tuesday.
Mark Scolforo of the Associated Press reported the news, noting U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick made the decision. As a result, Pennsylvania state prosecutors will have three months to retry him under the 1995 version of the state's child endangerment law which was in effect in 2001.
"[Judge Mehalchick] agreed with Spanier's argument he was improperly charged under a 2007 law for actions that occurred in 2001, when he was responding to a complaint about Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy on campus," Scolforo wrote.