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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
The state attorney general’s office wrote in a letter to Judge John Boccabella that no legal impediment prevents him from enforcing the minimum sentence of two months in jail, followed by two months of house arrest for former Penn State President Graham Spanier.