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From a state prison, Jerry Sandusky repeats his innocence as a Centre County hearing on Sept. 8 will consider a potential recantation and a bid for a new trial, with defense claims that prosecutors coached victims and shaped testimony and that new counsel will argue ineffective representation.
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse as a hearing is scheduled to examine a claim that he recanted sexual‑abuse allegations against him.
One of Jerry Sandusky's 2012 accusers, Ryan Rittmeyer (Victim 10), is expected to recant his testimony in a September Centre County hearing after a 2025 affidavit suggesting memory gaps and pressure from investigators; the case followed a $5.5 million civil settlement with Penn State, and Sandusky has repeatedly sought to overturn his conviction, with former prosecutor Frank Fina set to testify about his interactions with the witness.
A Minnesota man, Bryan Hooper Sr., was released after 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, following a recantation by the key witness who confessed to the crime, leading to the vacating of his conviction and an apology from prosecutors.
Two former convicts claiming to be ex-Wagner fighters gave interviews to a Russian human rights group, saying they killed civilians in Ukraine. One of them, Azamat Uldarov, has now recanted his claim, alleging that he was blackmailed into making it. Wagner, a private military company, is seeking the other former convict, Alexey Savichev, who claimed that his unit was ordered to kill any men 15 years old or older. Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has accused a group of people, including former convicts and Federal Penitentiary Service employees, of cooperating with foreign groups to collect compromising material on convicts and former convicts.