Anglesey changed plea Friday

No contest.

That’s the plea Jacob Anglesey made during an 11th hour change-of-plea hearing Friday afternoon, a few days prior to the scheduled start of his first-degree murder trial.

“We were set to go to trial on Monday,” Third District Court Judge Richard Lavery said.

As part of a plea agreement, Anglesey changed his plea to no contest to a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of two-year-old Connor Allen. No contest is a plea made when a defendant does not admit or deny guilt to a charge, but admits there is enough sufficient evidence to find the defendant guilty of a...