Ex-Penn State Assistant Coach Sandusky Gets New Sentencing

Ex-Penn State Assistant Coach Sandusky Gets New Sentencing
Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives for an appeal hearing at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., on Oct. 29, 2015.Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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HARRISBURG, Pa.—Seven years after Jerry Sandusky was convicted of child molestation and sentenced to decades behind bars, an appeals court has ordered a resentencing hearing for the former Penn State assistant football coach whose crimes have cost the university a fortune and triggered changes to state law.

Sandusky, 75, was sentenced in 2012 to 30 to 60 years, but a Pennsylvania Superior Court panel said that included the improper application of mandatory minimums.