Former Viking Darren Sharper’s Effort To Toss Sentence In Rape Case Rejected

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Disgraced former NFL star Darren Sharper’s latest effort to have his 18-year federal sentence tossed out in a drug and sexual assault case involving multiple women was rejected Thursday by a federal appeals court judge.Sharper had gone to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a U.S. district judge rejected the claim that he was not adequately advised by his previous lawyers on the consequences of his 2015 guilty plea.“Sharper has failed to make the requ