Editing Graham Spanier (section)

===Criminal charges===
On November 1, 2012, Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly announced that Spanier had been indicted for grand jury perjury, obstruction of justice, child endangerment, failure to report child abuse and conspiracy in connection with the scandal. The charges were partially based on findings in the Freeh report.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sokolove|first1=Michael|title=The Trials of Graham Spanier|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/magazine/the-trials-of-graham-spanier-penn-states-ousted-president.html?_r=0|work=The New York Times|date=July 20, 2014|access-date=August 9, 2014}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|last=Carroll|first=Matt|url=http://www.centredaily.com/2013/07/12/3685021/former-penn-state-president-graham.html|title=Former Penn State president Graham Spanier to sue Louis Freeh for defamation|date=July 12, 2013}}</ref> Curley and Schultz were also indicted for these charges in a superseding indictment.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ganim|first1=Sara|title=Ex-PSU President Graham Spanier charged with obstruction, endangerment and perjury; more charges filed against other administrators|url=http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/11/spanier_charged_with_obstructi.html|website=pennlive.com|publisher=The Patriot News|access-date=August 9, 2014|date=November 2012}}</ref> On July 30, 2013, the charges formally moved ahead following a preliminary hearing by District Judge William Wenner.<ref>{{cite web|title=Judge orders 3 former Penn State officials to stand trial in Sandusky scandal|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/judge-orders-3-former-penn-state-officials-to-stand-trial-in-sandusky-scandal/|website=[[Fox News]]|agency=Associated Press|access-date=August 9, 2014}}</ref>

Pretrial hearings in the case against Spanier began on December 17, 2013. Dauphin County Judge Todd Hoover ruled at that time that Spanier's attorneys would not be allowed to call to the stand Cynthia Baldwin. Baldwin, who had been an attorney for Penn State, had accompanied Spanier, Schultz and Curley to their grand jury appearances in 2011. All three men would testify they believed Baldwin was their legal representation. Later, under the protection of a proffer agreement—a form of immunity—with the attorney general, Baldwin testified against the three men in her grand jury testimony. Attorneys for Spanier, Curley and Schultz asserted this was a violation of attorney-client privilege and their clients' civil rights. Elizabeth Ainslie, one of Spanier's attorneys, said, "I was never notified that Ms. Baldwin was going to testify against Graham Spanier, and neither was he. [Baldwin] says different things at different times about who she represented."<ref>{{cite web|title=Judge opts against testimony in Penn State case|url=http://6abc.com/archive/9363387|publisher=WPVI-TV Philadelphia|access-date=August 9, 2014}}</ref>

On January 22, 2016, a three judge panel of the Pennsylvania Superior Court unanimously overturned a decision by Judge Hoover and threw out charges of perjury, obstruction and conspiracy against Spanier and Schultz, and charges of obstruction and conspiracy against Curley. The court found that Baldwin breached attorney-client privilege by testifying as to confidential communications between her and Spanier to the grand jury.<ref>{{cite web|title=Some Charges Against Penn State Ex-Administrators Thrown Out|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/charges-penn-state-administrators-thrown-36451776|website=ABC News|publisher=ABC News|access-date=January 22, 2016}}</ref>