Overview
- A Centre County judge scheduled an evidentiary hearing for Sept. 8, 2026, to review an affidavit in which the man known at trial as Victim 10 (R.R.) says he was coached and now recants his 2012 testimony.
- In a June 2025 sworn statement filed by Sandusky’s lawyers, R.R. says prosecutors told him trauma may have 'fragmented' his memory and encouraged him to affirm details he did not clearly recall.
- Sandusky’s defense has listed planned witnesses including R.R., his estranged wife Jasmine Rittmeyer, investigator Frank Parlato and trial prosecutor Frank Fina to support claims of coaching and ineffective counsel.
- The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office has asked the court to bar or limit certain testimony, called the recantation 'highly suspect,' and argued some proposed evidence is irrelevant or inadmissible.
- Any ruling after the Sept. 8 hearing will be subject to careful judicial scrutiny, is likely to be appealed, and would have uncertain effect on Sandusky’s affirmed 2012 conviction and decades-long sentence.