Will He or Won't He Is Question at Sandusky Trial People in Bellefonte, Pa., lined up outside of the Centre County courthouse as early as 3:30 a.m. today to get one of the extra folding chairs that have been set up in the back of the court in hopes that former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky will take the stand on the final day of testimony in his child sex abuse trial. "I've been following it because I'm interested in the effects on Penn State," said Jillian Damus, 17, a high school student from State College. Of course I want to see Jerry Sandusky testify. He hasn't done a very good job so far. The defense was leaning toward putting Sandusky on the stand Tuesday evening, sources told ABC News, but the final decision had yet to be made. It would be a gamble to put Sandusky on the stand because it would then open him up to withering cross examination by the prosecutor. Sandusky, 68, is charged with 51 counts of sex abuse against 10 boys. If convicted he could be sentenced to life in prison. Sandusky would likely be the defense's last witness before resting their case, following a day of strong testimony in their favor in which the accounts of two lead investigators were called into question and the testimony of Sandusky's wife was unwavering in its denial of sexual abuse. "The community needs to know what happened," said Gerneylee Carter, 58, of Bellefonte. There was a major breach of trust, and it's not going to be restored until we know what happened. I was here all last week and I'm usually here at 6:30 a.m. Carter and dozens of other members of the public, from towns as close as Bellefonte and as far away as Pittsburgh and San Francisco and Florida filed into the courtroom ahead of an early 8:30 a.m. start today. Before deciding on whether Sandusky will testify, attorneys must decided whether to call Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Sara Ganim. Ganim, who wrote a March 2011 story about the investigation for the Harrisburg Patriot News, reportedly wrote an email to the mother of one of the accusers during the investigation instructing her to talk to Pennsylvania state police officer Joseph Leiter if the mother wanted the case to move forward. The defense wants to admit the email to help show that the police and local media were helping to push the accusations against Sandusky forward. "We need to know what was in those emails," Carter said. For some local residents, the flood of media attention and security officials has been as intriguing as it is annoying. A high-profile case in another courtroom at the courthouse, involving three Russian men on trial for 40 armed robberies, has brought out police and sheriff's officers decked in full riot gear, toting rifles on rooftops and outside of court as the men on trial enter and leave each day. The spectacle has drawn out as many locals watching from benches along High Street and North Allegheny Street here as members of the public filing into court. "It's winding down now," Mitch Bradley, a business owner in Bellefonte, said on his way into court. I want to take in what's going on here, it's a big deal for little Bellefonte. I can't wait until it's over, though, to have our parking spaces back.