Freeh seeks out-of-county judge for Spanier defamation suit
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Former FBI director Louis Freeh wants a judge from outside the State College area to handle the defamation case against him and his law firm filed by former Penn State president Graham Spanier.
Freeh’s lawyers filed a motion Friday seeking an out-of-county judge in the litigation that accuses Freeh of scapegoating him in a 2012 report commissioned by the university into how its officials handled the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
Freeh’s new filings suggest a good candidate for the job would be Dauphin County Judge Todd Hoover.
Hoover is presiding over the criminal case in Harrisburg against Spanier and his former top aides Gary Schultz and Tim Curley.
They say Hoover would be well-positioned to coordinate the two matters, and outside judges have been used in related cases.