Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Video: Dottie Sandusky expected to testify



>>> wife, dottie expected to take the stand any moment. she was spotted going into the court hit-or-miss a few hours ago. it is the first time back at the courthouse since the first day of this trial when the judge ordered all potential witnesses to leave the courtroom. meantime, the defense called two of the lead investigators to the stand after playing a tape of an interview between one of them and one of the accusers. the defense is suggesting police influenced accusers by sharing details of other cases during the interviews. nbc's michael isikoff joins us, and all eyes are on whether dottie sandusky will take the stand here soon.

>> that's right. as you mentioned, dottie was seen entering the courthouse today, so the expectation is that she will likely take the stand this afternoon. right now as we speak the defense is just calling a psychologist who is apparently going to be the one who testifies about the -- that history on a personality disorder that the defense claims sandusky has and explains some of the overly affectionate letters that he has written to some of the alleged victims that was introduced as evidence. i should point out, tamara, that in this morning's session the defense did score some points with these two police investigators tripping them up on their testimony about whether they had influenced the -- one of the alleged victims by telling them what other witnesses had said in the case. when one of those police investigators, joseph, took the stand initially, he was asked did you ever tell any of the alleged victims what the other victims were saying, and he said no, he did not. then they played a tape of his interview with victim number four. one of the key witnesses in this case in which he clearly can be heard saying, leiter can, you know, we've talked to other witnesses, and we've talked to nine of them. they all tell us a story of how sandusky goes from touching and feeling to committing oral sex and even acts of rape. that was a contradiction. it was -- it did score some points for the defense. now, the comeback to that from leiter is that victim number four was very reluctant to testify. he didn't want to give details, and this was a way of drawing him out and getting him to tell the truth.

>> all right. michael, live for us in bellfont. on the way to court today, sandusky 's attorney, joe amandola told reporters to stay tuned when they asked if sandusky will take the stand. he then compared this case to a television trauma.

>> have you to wait and see.

>> it's " days of our lives ?"

>> i think it's general hospital . actually, could be "all my children."

>> we'll have much more on the case coming up, but you heard those unusual remarks.

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