However, L.A. Superior Court Judge Triche Milazzo refused, claiming it was too lenient in June.
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Milazzo gave Sharper close to the the maximum 19½-year sentence she could have imposed. According to court documents, Sharper and a friend would put anti-anxiety drugs or sedatives in the victims’ drinks so they could sexually assault them.
Sharper had pleaded guilty or no-contest to the charges.
Sharper, 40, had earlier reached a multi-jurisdiction plea deal related to allegations he drugged and raped as many as 16 women in four states.
An Arizona judge sentenced him to nine years and what both Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael McMahon and Gibbens said amounted to lifetime probation. Their federal plea agreements say Licciardi has accepted a 17-year sentence, with 10 years for Nunez.
In a press release, U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite of the Eastern District of Louisiana said Sharper was sentenced “after having previously pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute Alprazolam, Diazepam and Zolpidem, with intent to commit rape and two counts of distributing these substances with intent to commit rape”.
Nunez and Licciardi are tentatively scheduled to be sentenced in state court in October 20.
Sharper’s family left the courtroom without speaking to reporters.
“I would like to apologize a thousand times”, Sharper said. He said “I lived my life right for 38 years and then I took this path”. He looked at the floor as he said, “I’m still trying to figure out why I made some of these choices”. “You continued to rape other women in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas”. “A mistake happens once and you never make it again”.
Her voice broke often during her long statement.
She finished her comments by telling Sharper to “go to hell”, the newspaper reports.
Darren Sharper finally apologized Thursday for the heinous crimes he was accused of committing against more than half a dozen women in four states, and a Louisiana federal judge sentenced the former National Football League safety to 18 years in prison, the latest chapter in the legal saga of the one-time Super Bowl champion.
Milazzo found that sentence to be “inappropriate”, and Sharper agreed to leave his fate in the judge’s hands rather than risk having his later admissions to investigators used against him at a trial.
Sharper had struck a plea deal with prosecutors in which he would only serve 9 years – but a federal judge in Louisiana shut it down claiming it was too lenient for a such a bad monster.
Licciardi also admitted that he provided Sharper with three drugged women in New Orleans, two of whom he raped and another with whom he tried to have sex.
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Sharper was wearing orange prison garb, and his hands and feet were shackled when he arrived Thursday morning.
