I believe someone posted on the first plea and this sort of wraps the unfortunate case up
Scott Carlson and Bruce Adkins were both involved in a scheme to fake a paternity test, both Army colonels and both students at the Army War College, but prosecutors say their roles were very different.
"It is clear, although not an excuse, that Adkins was Scott Carlson's pawn," said Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed, following Adkins' entry of a guilty plea Friday to second-degree misdemeanor counts of obstruction of justice and tampering. "Carlson took advantage of Adkins and provided the platform for his criminal behavior."
The actions of the two also diverged after the county Domestic Relations Office discovered the crime in 2007, Freed said. "Instead of continuing to deny and dissemble like Carlson, Adkins stood up and admitted he was wrong," Freed said, referencing Adkins' testimony during Carlson's trial in September 2008.
Adkins will, like Carlson, leave the United States Army in disgrace, Freed said, but "we would have had a much harder time convicting Carlson without Adkins." Freed said he is satisfied that Adkins' plea adequately holds him responsible for his actions and reflects his cooperation.
Derek Clepper, a senior assistant district attorney, said there was no deal on Adkins' sentence but that the general guidelines would be probation to a month in jail. Mitigating circumstances in Adkins' case were his health at the time and the things Carlson led him to believe, Clepper said.
George Anthony, grandfather of slain toddler Caylee Anthony, may have taken his own life today had authorities not located him as quickly as they did, Anthony family lawyer Brad Conway said in a news conference today.
Police found Anthony despondent and possibly under the influence of medication and alcohol early this morning in a Datyona Beach, Fla., hotel, Conway said. Police also discovered a five-page suicide note in the hotel that Anthony had apparently penned.
In a somber 911 call, Conway reported Anthony missing Thursday night and said Anthony "has taken several bottles of medication from the house as well as some pictures." One of the pictures was of little Caylee.
Anthony's daughter, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, was charged with Caylee's murder in October before the toddler's decomposed body was found less than a mile from the Anthony family home in December.
George Anthony was taken into police custody early this morning and transported to Halifax Medical Center for evaluation under a Florida law called the Baker Act, which allows authorities to hold people without their consent for up to 72 hours pending a psychiatric evaluation. The strain of having his granddaughter murdered and his daughter accused of that murder "pushed [Anthony] to the brink of what might have been another tragedy," Conway said at the news conference.
Police were able to track Anthony's location through his cell phone, which he used to send a text messages to his family saying he did not "want to live anymore," Daytona Beach Police Department spokesman Jimmie Flynt told ABC News.
Investigators would not comment on the contents of the letter, but Flynt told ABC News it did not raise speculation that George Anthony was in any way involved in Caylee's murder.
Halifax spokeswoman Salina Wang told ABC News that Anthony is in stable condition.
While Conway said Anthony was recovering from his ordeal, he emphasized what a strain the past six months since Caylee went missing has put on the man. "He's not OK. He's been through something that's affected his life, his wife's life, his daughter's life and his granddaughter is gone."
'Just Need to Get Away'
Anthony was reported missing by his family around 11:00 p.m. Thursday after he failed to show up for a scheduled meeting earlier that day.
Daytona Police Chief Mike Chitwood said Anthony was low-key and "melancholy" when they spoke to Anthony at the motel. "[Anthony] basically said to us, 'You know, I just need to get away. I need to think things through.' That's why he was there," Chitwood told WFTV.
Police then invoked the Baker Act and took him to the hospital. Anthony "went willingly" and fully cooperated with police and was not handcuffed on the way to the hospital, Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Carlos Padilla said. "He was not arrested. He has not committed a crime," Padilla told ABC News.
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'You know, I just need to get away. I need to think things through.'
IMA nuts, can't youzz see? Accessory to murder potentially involving the entire family (less rapper totmom) is quite a heavy burden.
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I'm sure that the knowledge that you raised a lying thieving sociopath daughter who apparently murdered your granddaughter is not uplifting. Hope he gets help. I also hope his daughter pays for her crimes. Satan awaits, bitch
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I'm not as conciliatory Frank. I could be wrong, but I suspect former policeman George, has been coaching totmom all along. Few 22 years olds are that savy or illusive. She's got her story and she's sticking with it!
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I agree, Besoeker. Suicide is evidence of both guilt and grief and George may even have helped with the body disposal. Losing a granddaughter, raised as your own, is bad enough but to lose your only daughter to prison is a double whammy; he may have wanted to protect his wife from further loss. Grandma Cindy persuaded Casey to not give up her daughter for adoption then they kicked her out and told her to be more responsible. The day the murder/accident happened, he left the house, too, while Cindy worked. There are just too many strange elements to this case.
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"There are just too many strange elements to this case."
There very well may be, but I for one am tired beyond all reason of hearing about it - it's non-stop with that horrible Nancy Grace woman, and story coverage has been non-stop for the last three months on the breakroom TV at the hellhole job. Aren't there any other horrible dysfunctional families that the TV tabloids can fatten on?
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It's blaring out of a TV in a public area, NS - I haven't had a choice about the matter! Every day and every time I have gone into the employee breakroom, it seems like the Caylee Anthony epic has been the only story being covered for the last three months. Otherwise I wouldn't know anything about it, either.
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