The 31-year-old Canadian secured the Giro with a strong individual timetrial on the final day, but along the way he got help from argyle colleagues in the mountains and in theteamtimetrial.
The race starts with a short teamtimetrial in Venice on Saturday, with Stapleton's Team Columbia and the Garmin, Astana and Saxo Bank squads expected to feature.
Defence lawyer Joe Amendola said after the hearing that he had doubts that Sandusky had received due process, saying that the defence team "ran out of time" to prepare as the cases were rushed to trial.