South Bay man charged in a 2013 Pennsylvania campus sex assault hires a lawyer to review possible plea deal

By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press

GETTYSBURG, Pa.  — A Bay Area man who was extradited from France this year to face allegations of a 2013 campus sexual assault after the accuser went public with her story hired a private lawyer to review a potential plea deal, lawyers in the case said in court Thursday.

Ian Cleary, 32, of Saratoga, made his first in-person court appearance in Adams County, a half-mile from where the encounter occurred at Gettysburg College.

A plea had been in the works...