BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) - Jerry Sandusky's wife smiled as she took
the witness stand on Tuesday to defend him against charges he
sexually abused boys in their home and on Penn State's campus, and
jurors also heard police investigators contradict themselves and
psychological experts duel over evaluations of the defendant.

Dottie Sandusky said she remembered most but not all of the
eight men who have accused her husband of abusing them as children. She told jurors she did not see him have inappropriate contact with them over the years they visited the couple's home or traveled with them.

In a calm voice during an hour of testimony, she described her
45-year marriage to the former Penn State assistant football coach,
but lead prosecutor Joe McGettigan appeared to stump her when he
asked why the men might lie in making the accusations.

"I don't know what it would be for," she said, with a slight
shake of her head.

A large portion of the day's testimony, which included 11 more
character witnesses, consisted of a defense psychologist, Elliott
Atkins, who told jurors he believes Jerry Sandusky has a
personality disorder that might explain letters addressed to one of
his accusers, while prosecutors countered with psychiatrist Dr.
John Sebastian O'Brien II, who said that was not the case but that
he might suffer from some other problem, possibly psychosexual
disorder with a focus on pre-adolescents.

Judge John Cleland told jurors the case remains on track for
defense testimony to likely conclude Wednesday morning, closing
statements Thursday morning and deliberations to begin that
afternoon. It remained unclear whether Sandusky will take the stand
in his own defense.

Sandusky is charged with dozens of criminal counts related to 10
boys over a 15-year span. He's accused of engaging in illegal
sexual contact ranging from fondling to forced oral and anal sex,
and he could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted.

Dottie Sandusky has stood by her husband, posting his bail,
accompanying him to court proceedings and in December issuing a
statement that proclaimed his innocence and said that accusers were
making up their stories.

Part of the defense strategy is clearly to show that the details
of accusers' stories are wrong, but Dottie Sandusky was unable to
say with much precision how often certain boys would stay in the
couple's State College home. She said one of the boys, called
Victim 10 in court records, she did not know at all.

She described Victim 1 as "clingy," Victim 9 as "a charmer"
and Victim 4 as "very conniving, and he wanted his way and he
didn't listen a whole lot."

Victim 9 testified last week that he was attacked by Jerry
Sandusky in the basement of the ex-coach's home and cried out for
help when Dottie Sandusky was upstairs. She, however, said the
basement was not soundproof and she would have been able to hear
shouting if she was upstairs.

Dottie Sandusky, who isn't charged in the case, also said the
visiting boys were free to sleep upstairs if they wanted to. The
accusers have said Jerry Sandusky directed them to the basement,
where they allege he sometimes molested them.

Police handling of an initial interview with Victim 4 may have
helped the defense. Now-retired Cpl. Joseph A. Leiter testified
police "never told any of them what anyone else had ever told us"
before jurors were played a tape of that interview, in which Leiter
told Victim 4 that they had been told by others that oral sex and a
rape had occurred. Leiter also said that "in some of our
interviews ... we did" tell accusers that others had come forward.

"Each of these accusers was very, very seriously injured, and
very concerned, and we had told them - especially prior to going to
the grand jury - that they wouldn't be alone, that there were
others," he said.

Also, Leiter told jurors after a recess that he had discussed
his testimony with Trooper Scott Rossman over the break, shortly
after Rossman told jurors that such a discussion had not occurred.

Victim 4's attorney, Ben Andreozzi, was there the day of that
initial interview, and he told jurors a guilty verdict in
Sandusky's trial could have an impact on his client if he files a
civil lawsuit. He said a decision about a lawsuit has not been
made.

The potential for accusers to cash in through a civil lawsuit is
part of Sandusky's defense strategy, suggesting to the jury that
the accusers have motives to lie.

A witness told jurors that she knew Victim 4 through her brother
and that he had a reputation for "dishonesty and embellished
stories." The woman, who said her brother was the accuser's best
friend, is an Iraq war veteran who suffered a brain injury before
she was discharged.

Witness Joshua Frabel, who lived next door to Victim 1, recalled
that the young man's mother said she had just heard Sandusky
molested her child and that she would end up owning Sandusky's
house.

"She had said about, when all this settles out, she'll have a
nice big house in the country with a fence, and the dogs can run
free," he said.

He added that Victim 1 told him: "When this is over, I'll have
a nice new Jeep."

The mother took the witness stand to deny it, and Victim 1
denied it last week during his testimony.

The defense also called former New York Jets linebacker Lance
Mehl, who played for the Nittany Lions in the 1970s. When Amendola
asked him about Sandusky's reputation, he replied, "We all looked
up to him as a class act."

Earlier Tuesday, Amendola told reporters to "stay tuned" to
find out if Sandusky would take the stand, comparing the case to a
soap opera. Asked which soap opera, Amendola initially said
"General Hospital," then "All My Children."

Prosecutors rested their case Monday after presenting 21
witnesses, including eight who said they had been assaulted by
Sandusky. The identities of two other people prosecutors say were
victims are unknown to investigators. The defense has called 24
witnesses.

Sandusky's arrest led the university trustees to fire football
coach Joe Paterno in November, saying his response to a 2001 report
from team assistant Mike McQueary about seeing Sandusky in a shower with a boy showed a lack of leadership. Paterno, who said he wished he had done more, died of cancer in January.

Sandusky has acknowledged showering with boys but says he didn't
molest them.

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