Thursday's indictment also calls into question Cynthia Baldwin's role in managing the most significant crisis in Penn State history. She was the attorney for the university back then.
Now, the part she played in the whole thing may determine the fate of Curley and Schultz if they are convicted.
Then Penn State President Graham Spanier, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz each thought Cynthia Baldwin was their lawyer. But, Baldwin maintains she didn't represent them, she only represented the university.
This confusion could help those three men walk free.
Spanier, Curley and Schultz may end up with a get out of jail free card. All because of Cynthia Baldwin, who used to be the university's lawyer.
She also represented the three men, or at least that's what they thought.
Court records revealed during the Grand Jury Investigation, Spanier directed Baldwin to go with Curley and Schultz to their grand jury appearances.
Baldwin did that, but then said she wasn't their lawyer and that she represented only the university.
“It's illegal for her to be in the grand jury room, if she's not representing the witnesses and if she is there not representing the witnesses, they believe she's their lawyer, they represented to the grand jury she was their lawyer, they told the judge, if she wasn't then, they were denied their fundamental rights to counsel,” explains former PA Attorney General Walter Cohen.
Baldwin testified before the grand jury in January of 2011 that Spanier was well aware of the investigation and the allegations.
At the same time, Spanier regularly checked in with Baldwin for new information about the grand jury's investigation.
Now, former Attorney General Walter Cohen believes Baldwin's behavior back then could mean the three will walk free.
“And she said she doesn't think there is a conflict. Well, it went beyond that,” Cohen continued. “There is a conflict if she's not even representing them and she's in that grand jury room reporting back to Mr. Spanier, what these people said, who are potentially in conflict with him. That's wrong.”
The Freeh report said Baldwin was more worried about protecting these administrators, characterizing her representation of Penn State's interests as "seriously deficient."