FILE PHOTO: – In this June 2, 2017 file photo, former Penn State President Graham Spanier departs after his sentencing hearing at the Dauphin County Courthouse in Harrisburg. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

(Harrisburg) —  A federal judge will consider ex-Penn State president Graham Spanier’s argument that his conviction should be thrown out, a week before he’s due to report to jail.

The hearing, slated for later today, concerns Spanier’s argument he was wrongly convicted in state court for mishandling a 2001 complaint about Jerry Sandusky under a version of the law that wasn’t in place at that time.

He also argues the statute of limitations wasn’t properly applied.

The 70-year-old was forced out as president shortly after Sandusky was arrested for child molestation in 2011.

Spanier was convicted in 2017 of child endangerment. He’s scheduled to report to a county jail on Wednesday to begin serving two months.

He remains a tenured faculty member on administrative leave, and the school doesn’t release his salary.