Colonel seeks to move paternity trial

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Colonel seeks to move paternity trial
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Apr 1, 2008 12:18:24 EDT

CARLISLE, Pa. — An Army colonel accused of trying to tamper with a paternity test is seeking to move his trial.

Col. Scott Carlson, 51, argues that he can’t get a fair trial in Cumberland County because of publicity about his arrest last fall.

The former student at the Army War College in Carlisle is accused of conspiring to have a classmate take a paternity test in his place.

Carlson’s attorneys filed a motion Monday asking to move the trial out of Cumberland County. They also ask that Carlson not be tried with the former classmate, 44-year-old Col. Bruce Adkins.

The two are scheduled for trial in May. Investigators say they hatched the plan because a Virginia woman wanted more child support from Carlson for their 9-year-old daughter.


Article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/04/ap_paternity_040108/