Darren Sharper Sentenced to 20 Years for Rape: Latest Details and Comments

November 29, 2016   ·   Joseph Zucker   ·   Jump to comments

A Los Angeles judge sentenced former NFL safety Darren Sharper to 20 years in prison Tuesday after the 41-year-old pleaded no contest to raping two women as part of a plea deal for charges in multiple states, according to the Los Angeles Times' Corina Knoll. 
In July 2015, Sharper entered a guilty plea in a Louisiana court to resolve court cases in that state as well as California, Arizona and Nevada.
Prosecutors had originally agreed to allow Sharper to serve a nine-year prison sentence as part of his case in Louisiana, but a federal judge instead handed down an 18-year sentence to Sharper in August. In March 2015, an Arizona judge also sentenced him to nine years in federal prison.
According to Knoll, Sharper's multiple prison sentences will be served concurrently rather than consecutively.
As part of Sharper's sentencing hearing Tuesday, one of his victims gave a statement to the court:
I can only imagine myself lying there like a vegetable while he too...

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