A federal judge in New Orleans threw out the plea deal reached in the rape case against Darren Sharper, emphatically denying the nine-year sentence was appropriate punishment for allegedly assaulting as many as 16 women over multiple states.
Last March, Sharper reached a "global" plea agreement. U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo told Sharper, who appeared in the courtroom in his orange prison coveralls with his ankles shackled, "This court cannot accept this plea agreement."