SCRANTON, Pa. -- Former Penn State president Graham Spanier is asking a federal magistrate judge to overturn his conviction, less than a week before he is scheduled to start serving two months in jail.
Spanier was in a Scranton, Pennsylvania, courthouse Thursday as his lawyers argued it violated the U.S. Constitution to convict him under a 2007 law for mishandling a complaint about former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy in 2001.
The attorney general's office wants U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick to do what state courts have done and uphold Spanier's misdemeanor conviction for child endangerment.