Darren Sharper Judge Rejects Plea Agreement, probably about to do 15-20 years

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Darren Sharper’s plea deal rejected by federal judge
Darren Sharper’s plea deal rejected by federal judge in ex-NFL star’s rape case

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge rejected a plea deal Thursday in the rape case against former NFL star Darren Sharper, saying the nine-year sentence doesn’t reflect the seriousness of the alleged assaults against as many as 16 women.

“This court cannot accept this plea agreement,” U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo told Sharper as he stood before her in orange prison coveralls and shackles. She gave Sharper and his lawyers until March 3 to decide whether to withdraw a guilty plea he entered last year.

Sharper had pleaded guilty as part of a deal involving charges in four states. He also has pleaded guilty or no contest to similar charges in state courts in California, Arizona, Nevada and Louisiana.

His attorneys declined comment as they left the courtroom.

Sharper’s federal plea deal called for a 108-month prison sentence if he were to comply with a lengthy list of requirements, including cooperation with authorities in the case against two co-defendants in Louisiana.

Milazzo noted a pre-sentence report compiled by federal authorities called for a sentence between 15 to 20 years.

The federal indictment charged Sharper with distributing the drugs alprazolam, diazepam and zolpidem — more commonly known by the brand names Xanax, Valium and Ambien — with the intent to commit rape.

Two Louisiana state counts of aggravated rape against Sharper stemmed from accusations that he sexually assaulted two drug-impaired women at his apartment in September 2013.


They made homeboy plead guilty in all them cases to slam the hammer on him...

 

[Skooby]

I don't understand why he even had to rape. This dude probably had women throwing themselves at him.

 

[ATearInMyEye]

I don't understand why he even had to rape. This dude probably had women throwing themselves at him.

right, dude was handsome Af.

Probably had a nice body too, since he was a former NFL Safety.

 

[Redeem87]

Hes an attractive rich breh why is he raping women , I need to see what this chick looked like she must be bad as fuk

 

[god shamgod]

right, dude was handsome Af.

Probably had a nice body too, since he was a former NFL Safety.

please tell me you're a female

 

[Llcoolbay]

Wow...

What a fall off

 

[MikelArteta]

I don't understand why he even had to rape. This dude probably had women throwing themselves at him.

rape has nothing to do with "looks"

hell andrew luster the rapist was heir to max factor that didn't stop him

paul bernardo no homo etc. etc.

 

[Jerz-2]

This dude is a fukking psychopath.

If y'all ain't read up on what son's accused of doing....

 

[DrexlersFade]

CTE bruhs

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

16 women ? Phuck him

 

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Calling Darren Sharper 'Too Sexy' to Rape Is Goddamn Ridiculous

Erin Gloria Ryan
2/20/14 1:45pm
Filed to: DARREN SHARPER

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Earlier this week, Tempe, Arizona police released documents that detail even more rape allegations against former NFL star Darren Sharper, who today will appear in court to face rape charges stemming from separate incidents in Los Angeles. In total, Sharper's alleged to have drugged 11 people and raped 7 women across 4 states. It's shocking when anyone faces charges of being a serial rapist, but in the case of Sharper, folks have expressed an added undercurrent of confusion over how a man that good looking could do something that horrible. But he's handsome! Handsome men don't need to rape women!

The story of Darren Sharper's alleged double life is so fukked up that it seems almost tailor made to be a RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES episode of Law & Order: SVU or a Lifetime Original movie called "Unsportsmanlike Conduct." In addition to having an impressive career with several teams in the NFL, the 38-year-old commentator on the NFL network was active in pro-woman charities. He participated in a breast cancer charity called Get Checked or Check Out, was a vocal cheerleader of a women's sports camp called Football Camp for Her (on November 1st, he touted a charity event for the organization on Twitter, telling women that if they attended they would be "touched in many ways"). He contributed to a book called "NFL Dads Dedicated to Daughters," when, according to WWLT, he wrote,

My daughter makes me mindful of how women are treated: undervalued and exploited. Which is why I feel compelled to take advantage of this opportunity to speak up about domestic violence.

Sharper was pretty beloved on a superficial level, too, a regular in Sexiest Players In The NFL slideshows (here he is featured by Essence). Blog posts raved about his dimples (and speculated about his sexuality, on account of the fact that he's so pretty). Pinterest users regularly featured him on their requisite sexy dude boards. He even dated Gabrielle Union for a spell. Despite allegations that, as a Minnesota Viking in 2005, he participated in that team's infamous "pleasure cruise" scandal, his reputation was pretty clean to the casual NFL observer.


Meanwhile, Sharper was allegedly up to all kinds of awful shyt. According to court documents filed in Los Angeles last week, Sharper drugged 11 people — 10 women and one man — and raped 7 women between September of last year and mid-January of this year. The MO in all of the allegations is chillingly similar — victims reported meeting Sharper at a nightclub, being invited back to his hotel room or apartment, and then given a drink by Sharper. The victims report that shortly thereafter, they passed out. Some say they woke up while Sharper was sexually assaulting them; others say they woke up the next day in varying states of undress and with no memory of what happened the night before except for a feeling that they'd been sexually assaulted. In at least a couple of the incidents, one woman reported seeing Sharper sexually assaulting her passed out friend. Here's the LA Times with more on that.

The first case mentioned in court documents occurred Sept. 22, when the alleged victim met Sharper at an event for the New Orleans Saints.

New Orleans police said the woman reported drinking a beverage provided by Sharper.

Her next memory was several hours later, waking up "to Defendant Sharper on top of her sexually assaulting her." She was examined at a hospital the next day and Sharper's DNA was found, court records said.

Less than 24 hours after that alleged assault occurred, Sharper was attending a charity event for his women's football camp. Touched in many ways, indeed.

Sharper's appearing in court today to face charges regarding allegations that he raped two women on two separate incidents that he met in the same Los Angeles night club, as well as charges that he drugged 5 people with a combination of morphine and Ambien in conjunction with those rapes. If he's convicted, he could face 30 years in prison. But even if he's exonerated as his lawyers are being paid to insist he will be, he's not off the hook by any means; in Las Vegas, Louisiana, and Tempe, Arizona, investigations are still ongoing. Tempe police say that they're close to filing charges in the incident that occurred there detailed in documents released Tuesday.

Sharper has been suspended indefinitely from his job at the NFL network. (No word yet from the NFL if having him back in the broadcasting booth would be more of a "distraction" than having a gay player suit up.)

Things do not look good for the good-looking Darren Sharper, and there will almost certainly be more developments as more facts come to light. But the Sharper scandal has brought bubbling to the surface something deeply fukked up about the way people think who rapes, why they rape, and how they rape.

If we ignore the deeply racist, deliberately trolly comments on stories about the allegations against Sharper, a shocking amount of commentary about the rapes comments on perceived tension between Sharper's good looks and his "need" to rape, as though rape is something that only ugly, poor guys do because women don't pay attention to them. Here are some things people — some bloggers, some Tweeters, some commenters — actually wrote about Sharper in the wake of the rape charges:

Darren is a sexy man!!! Can't imagine him having to rape anybody to get some!!

I doubt it. He does not need to rape a beaux! They give it up willingly for a high price! But if you cross him watch out.

Darren Sharper Can't Get The Willing Coochie Anymore???

Darren Sharper is too fine to be raping people... (That has nothing to do with him being sick but still)

 

[Ashyneezz]

If these women already going back to his room why is he raping them.

 

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If these women already going back to his room why is he raping them.

Rapists use sexual violence as their weapon.

 

[JLova]

I don't understand why he even had to rape. This dude probably had women throwing themselves at him.

He not right in the head.

 

[Easy-E]

I don't understand why he even had to rape. This dude probably had women throwing themselves at him.

FOr the millionth time, brehs; rape has little to do with sex, sometime.

It's a violent crime and usually a power thing. Dude may be a sociopath/psychopath. Prolly wasn't even tryna hear "no," "I don't do that," etc.