Darren Sharper, the former New Orleans Saints player convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting nine women, has renewed efforts to get a reduction in his 18-year federal prison sentence, according to court documents.
Sharper's lawyers filed a 52-page memorandum this week in U.S. District Court in New Orleans, arguing he was not adequately advised by his trial lawyers on the consequences of his 2016 guilty plea. That plea came after a judge rejected a nine-year sentence that was called for in his initial plea deal.
Sharper, 40, pleaded guilty or no contest in May 2015 to charges that he drugged and sexually assaulted nine women in California, Arizona, Nevada and Louisiana.