article_snippet: Former NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced to nine years in federal prison on Monday immediately after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in Arizona, marking the first change of plea of the day for the former safety accused of drugging and assaulting women in four states.
article_snippet: Sharper on Monday admitted to charges of sexual assault and attempted sexual assault arising from the 2013 Arizona case. 
article_snippet: Sharper, 39, appeared in the Phoenix courtroom by video-conferencing from Los Angeles. 
article_snippet: Former NFL star Darren Sharper (left) and he attorney Leonard Levine (right) appear at an LA court on Monday.
article_snippet: Former NFL star Darren Sharper pleaded no contest on Monday to charges  of drugging four women and raping two of four women, after receiving a nine-year prison sentence for a sexual assault case in Arizona .
article_snippet: Former NFL star Darren Sharper, right in an LA court on Monday, admitted to charges of sexual assault and attempted sexual assault arising from the 2013 Arizona case.
article_snippet: In each state, Former NFL star Darren Sharper was accused of drugging and sexually assaulting women when women were unconscious or otherwise unable to resist or consent.
article_snippet: Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Warren Granville said Former NFL star Darren Sharper will serve Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Warren Granville time in federal custody and that the 2013 Arizona case Louisiana will be resolved through a federal court.
article_snippet: In Arizona, Former NFL star Darren Sharper admitted sexually assaulting one victim, though police say he drugged and sexually assaulted three women, at an apartment in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe in November.
article_snippet: the reports said Former NFL star Darren Sharper was in Arizona to visit a woman who lived at an apartment in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe in November.
highlights_snippet: Sharper on Monday admitted to charges of sexual assault and attempted sexual assault arising from the 2013 Arizona case .
  
highlights_snippet: Sharper admitted sexually assaulting one victim, though police say he drugged and sexually assaulted three women,  in November .
  