well, they could. the judge could take additional prior bad conduct in consideration in sentencing, but i think whether you had matt sandusky s, you know, testimony for sentencing purposes or not, he s facing a life sentence. let s go over some of the background because there are signs of matt sandusky being in some trouble when he was living with the sanduskys. apparently he tried to commit suicide four months after going to live there. a newspaper interviewed matt s biological mother who says she tried to get him back from the sandusky home. the paper reporting say, quote, last spring she cold grand jurors she witnessed stalking behavior and suspected something was wrong based on a change in her son s attitude. she asked matt if sandusky had tou touched him and he answered i don t want to talk to about that. however, matt supported jerry after his arrest, however matt and his wife are the ones that filed paper to not have their
in the country this year. it spread overseas, rumors about it all day didn t happen until after the closing bell. there s the dow, down 2%. the big bank downgrades, including the biggest banks in europe, moody s saying that anybody with a lot of exposure to the credit markets, they were going to downgrade them. the banks one by one saying they disagree with the downgrades and some of the stocks are moving up a little bit. that s the bank part of it. banks are what pumps the oxygen through the financial system. when you have people worried talking about a slowing global economy, it caused all kinds of concerns. we re concerned about slowing numbers from china, from europe, from germany in particular. we had all kinds of macro economic data that was starting to show what many people feared that the global economy is slowing down. that means american factories are selling fewer things and american business owners are not hiring people because they are worried about the global sl
prosecution during the trial. now, he was not called to the stand. we re going to get into why in just a minute because that s of course the question everybody wants to know the answer to. first, a bit of background. he went to live with the sanduskies as a foster child. he was later adopted. he had denied ever being abused by sandusky till just this week. as the trial was going on, he apparently approached prosecutors and told them his adopted father did molest him. joining me now live with the latest, national correspondent jason carroll. also cnn con trip tributor sara gannham. why didn t he call him to testify? i think that s a good question. there s a question in term of whether or not his testimony would have been admissible. for one reason, jerry sandusky is not charged with sexually abusing his son. i can tell you this, think of this scenario. let s say, for example, jerry sandusky had taken the witness stand and had said during his testimony, i m a great father, i
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leave. he saw all the people rising up against him. and backed down. didn t see that in libya with ga daffy, not seeing that in syria with assad. he was unique in that sense. 84 years old. they said his health really started to decline in a hurry. in prison, his heart stopped beating, and then they moved him to a military hospital in cairo. lot of chaos in that country. we ll keep an eye on that throughout the day. back here at home, the southern baptist convention has elected its first african-american president. reverend fred luter jr. was voted in by delegates. they were meeting in his hometown of new orleans. the pastor of the franklin baptist avenue church. it comes as southern baptists try to expand their appeal and their past links to segregation more than a century ago. can i get an amen for that story. a mysterious act of kindness