Former University of Georgia star linebacker Adam Anderson was sentenced Monday in Clarke County Superior Court to a year in jail after he pleaded guilty to the sexual battery of two young women.
Anderson was originally charged with two counts of rape, but the felony charges were reduced to misdemeanor sexual battery charges.
Superior Court Judge Eric Norris accepted a plea negotiated between Athens area District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez and Anderson’s lawyer Steve Sadow of Atlanta.
Anderson, who lives in Rome and was given until Saturday to surrender at the Athens-Clarke County jail, entered what is called an Alford plea, in which he agrees that entering the plea is in his best interest and it allows him to still maintain his innocence.