Under state law, the failure by prosecutors to fix a date with reasonable certainty when a defendant is accused of having sexually assaulted a child would "violate the notions of fundamental fairness embedded in our legal process," the judge wrote. "A long line of Pennsylvania cases has refined and applied this standard to various factual situations involving assaults against children," he wrote. Joseph Amendola, a lawyer for Sandusky, said yesterday that he will file papers asking Cleland to dismiss the case if state prosecutors can’t be more specific with the allegations.