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New plea agreement reached in Darren Sharper rape case

Former NFL safety Darren Sharper appears at Los Angeles Superior Court March 23, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Nick Ut-Pool/Getty Images)


NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – Former New Orleans Saint Darren Sharper has entered into a new plea agreement with federal prosecutors.

Sharper accepted the new agreement at a hearing in federal court on Tuesday before Judge Jane Triche Milazzo.

It was Judge Milazzo who refused to sign off on the original plea agreement that had been accepted in several states where Sharper had been accused of drugging and raping women.

Sharper will now be formally sentenced on June 16, 2016.

The following stipulations have been added to the new agreement:

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