McQueary's Hand Written Statement to Police

McQueary is going to end up blowing this case

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The Patriot-News has viewed a copy of the statement and verified it through a source close to the investigation.

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Is that legal?

It is pretty much legal for a reporter to view anything he can that is newsworthy. Whether or not it was legal for whomever showed the reporter is a different story. Probably not illegal per se, but I imagine someone could be fired if it was done without consent of the Police Chief. I suspect it was leaked by the police on purpose because McQueary has alleged that he told police, thus bringing their department under additional scrutiny.

This boils down to 4 different truths:

1. What he told the grand jury is the complete truth, and that is exactly what happened as it was reported in the grand jury statement.

2. He lied about everything.

3. What he told the grand jury was the truth, but now he's telling fibs to his buddies to keep some semblance of face, honor, and integrity.

4. He saw it happen, stopped and reported the incident as he most recently stated, and later agreed to hush up and help cover-up the incident along with JoePa and the others (maybe for a job incentive). However, once the DA turned up the heat on the investigation, he cracked under the pressure, and gave a watered down version of events that he thought would be sufficient to hide the cover up.

... I'm going with option 3.

I'm so fricking confused...

I read a story today that quoted the State College PD as saying that they never took a report as the campus is not within their jurisdiction, and the University said that they never took a report either.

I'd like to know what agency the article keeps referring to when they say 'police'.

I'd go with 4.

Pus is tryingnto make mcq their fall guy here. Not sayingnhe handled this perfectly but there are large powers at work here

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I read a story today that quoted the State College PD as saying that they never took a report as the campus is not within their jurisdiction, and the University said that they never took a report either.

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RummelTiger

Do you have a Link for this story.

I think the Jurisdiction issue is what will be used to as an escape from responsibility. They will say "Well next time we will fix this problem...etc...etc...." Washing there hands.

The problem is with the terminology used here. If you report a crime to the police it is taken on an Incident/Offense Report [I/O]. This is not the same as a written statement to police. In order to better report criminal statistics the reporting of crimes has been given a uniform reporting standard. There are only certain things that can be given a case number. You are given a case number for any official report made to law enforcement such as wreck report, reporting criminal activity ect. Usually a written statement is part of an ongoing investigation. It would be part of an individual incident/offense being investigated by an agency. I have never seen someone request to give a written statement by itself. They are used so that the story is recorded in the witness's or suspect's own perspective to aid in the investigation. It keeps the story from changing. What bothers me is that you have people saying they made statements about crimes not that they reported crimes. Liars always have to remember what they said. These symantics are telling, in my opinion.