Via NOLA.com:
Sharper, 43, claimed that his attorneys failed to properly advise him on a complex 2015 deal that had been designed to get him a nine-year prison term in return for his pleading guilty to all charges brought against him by federal prosecutors in New Orleans as well as their counterparts in state courts in Orleans Parish, Arizona, California and Nevada.
That arrangement fell apart when U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo refused to sign off on it. Sharper contended in a 50-page motion filed last summer that his attorneys had left him in a position where he was forced to maintain his guilty plea in order to avoid risking state prosecutions in which his admissions could be used against him, resulting in a federal prison stint that was twice as long as he had expected.
But a just-published 14-page ruling, Milazzo dismissed Sharper’s arguments as “an attempt to avoid the harsh consequences of his actions.”
Sharper’s legal team — which included former New Orleans federal prosecutor Billy Gibbens and celebrity defense attorney Blair Berk — was “highly experienced and well respected,” and their work helped the ex-NFL safety “avoid the possibility of several lifetimes in jail” that he would have faced if he had been convicted in the state cases, Milazzo wrote.
Sharper’s right where he deserves to be and 18 years isn’t nearly enough time for the crimes he pleaded to.
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