The state’s attorney general’s office penned a letter to Judge John Boccabella Monday noting that “no legal impediment” prevents him from enforcing the 72-year-old’s two-month jail sentence and subsequent two-month house arrest.
According to the Associated Press, Sam Silver, Spanier’s defense attorney, asked Boccabella Friday to revise his sentence to house arrest with electronic monitoring. Silver wrote that Spanier had heart surgery in 2019 and is suffering from an “advanced stage” of prostate cancer.
“[Serving a jail sentence is] simply absurd and irresponsible right now,” Silver wrote in an email to the Associated Press.
Spanier’s conviction was