Defense for former Penn State assistant coach Sandusky rests cas - 13 WTHR Indianapolis

The defense for former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky has rested his case without calling Sandusky to the stand.

Earlier Wednesday, testimony in Sandusky's child sex abuse case was delayed by a closed-door meeting involving defense attorneys, the former Penn State assistant football coach and the judge.

Court had been scheduled to resume at 11 a.m. Wednesday after a break, but the meeting lasted past 11:30 a.m. Prosecutors did not participate in the closed-door meeting.

The main defense witness during the first morning session Wednesday was Dr. Jonathan Dranov. The physician says he spoke to then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary the night McQueary said he spotted Sandusky in a football facility shower assaulting a boy. Dranov says McQueary was "visibly shaken and upset" the night he claimed he caught Sandusky performing a sex act with a boy. But Dranov says McQueary did not specifically say he witnessed an assault.

Also, one of the jurors was excused for an illness. The juror was excused at the start of Wednesday morning's session in the former Penn State assistant football coach's trial. She was replaced by a female alternate.

The jury has already heard from eight accusers who claim Sandusky abused them.

The defense countered with character witnesses and sought to portray investigators as planting the seeds of those abuse reports during interviews with the alleged victims.

Sandusky faces 51 criminal counts involving 10 boys. He denies the allegations.

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