Previous UGA player gets 1 year for sexual battery
Jul 24, 2023, 10:02 PM ET Previous Georgia linebacker Adam Anderson was sentenced Monday in Athens-Clarke County (Georgia) Superior Court to a year in prison, according to several reports, after pleading guilty to the sexual battery of two young women.In April 2022,
a grand jury indicted Anderson and charged him with raping a 21-year-old female in a house in Athens, Georgia, on Oct. 29, 2021. A 2nd woman later declared Anderson sexually attacked her in Georgia’s neighboring Oconee County.Anderson, a native of Rome, Georgia, who was once thought about a potential NFL first-round draft choice, was jailed on Nov. 10, 2021, and released on $25,000 bond a week later. He had actually been forever suspended from the Bulldogs since the athletic department was informed of the allegation on Nov. 2, 2021.
His felony charges were ultimately decreased to misdemeanor sexual battery, and Superior Court Judge Eric Norris accepted a plea worked out between Athens area District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez and Anderson’s lawyer Steve Sadow of Atlanta on Monday, according to the Athens Banner-Herald.
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Anderson, who was provided up until Saturday to surrender at the Athens-Clarke County Jail, according to the newspaper, entered what is called an Alford plea. In doing so, he and his legal group agree that getting in the plea remains in the previous player’s best interest, and it allows him to still maintain his innocence.According to the report, Gonzalez had actually asked the judge to impose two consecutive 12-month sentences or 2 years in prison. Norris imposed two 12-month sentences to run concurrently.According to an Athens-Clarke County Police Department event report, the 21-year-old lady told police that she went to a home between midnight and 7 a.m. on Oct. 29, 2021. After having beverages, the lady stated, she woke up while Anderson was raping her. She reported it to the authorities that day.On Oct. 30, 2021, Anderson played in the Bulldogs ’34-7 success over Florida in Jacksonville. A Georgia authorities stated, at the time, that the athletic department wasn’t knowledgeable about the claims when he played against the Gators.Anderson was among the stars of Georgia’s defense before his arrest. At the time of his suspension, he led the team with 5 sacks and was second with 5.5 takes on for loss to opt for 32 takes on and 14 quarterback hurries. He didn’t play in the group’s final 7 games.At 6-foot-5 and 230 pounds, Anderson was ranked the No. 29 possibility for the 2022 NFL draft by ESPN– along with the No. 4 outdoors linebacker– at
the time of his arrest.