"In 2004, Adams' stepfather and mother, JK II and CLK, filed their petition saying Zachary Adams was a danger to them and their two other children, John Dylan Adams, then 15, and JCK, then 18.
Zachary Adams pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in the Feb. 7, 2004, incident.
He was sentenced to 11 months and 29 days in jail, which was suspended except for six months, and
Judge C. Creed McGinley of 24th Circuit Court in Benton and Decatur counties allowed him to serve that time in rehab about 50 miles away at the Jackson Area Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependency."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/06/holly-bobo-student-death-tn/6136361/
ETA from same article: • On Nov. 4, 2009,
McGinley ordered Adams sentenced to three years in state prison. The judgment order said Adams was convicted on July 13, 2009, for simple possession of Schedule VI drugs in Franklin County.
I find this interesting. Same judge. He knows Zach from when he shot his mother.
ETA: If he had served the three years he was sentenced to on Nov. 4, 2009, he would have been incarcerated on April 13, 2011.