NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former NFL star Darren Sharper is scheduled to make his first appearance in U.S. District Court in New Orleans to face federal charges that he drugged women in order to rape them.
A member of the Saints team that won the Super Bowl in 2010, Sharper was set to appear Monday afternoon before a federal magistrate judge. Proceedings in state court, where he faces aggravated rape charges, are set for Tuesday. Sharper already has pleaded guilty or no-contest in three states.
It is unclear when he will enter his formal plea under a multijurisdictional plea agreement announced last month.
Sharper has been jailed since charges were filed in Los Angeles in early 2014 and is expected to spend at least another nine years in prison.
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