Darren Sharper Sentenced in Nevada Sex Assault Case: Latest Details and Comments

Former NFL safety Darren Sharper was sentenced to up to eight years in prison for sexual assault Thursday.

Per the Associated Press (via Fox Sports), a Nevada judge sentenced Sharper as part of a four-state plea deal, with Sharper ordered to serve the sentence concurrently with an 18-year sentence from Louisiana on state and federal charges.

The AP noted Sharper is appealing his conviction and sentencing on the charges in Louisiana.

In March 2015, Sharper was charged with two counts of sexual assault in Las Vegas, stemming from an alleged attack on two women in January 2014, per Veronica Rocha and Stephen Ceasar of the Los Angeles Times.

"The Las Vegas charges accuse Sharper of drugging the women and assaulting them when he knew that they were 'mentally or physically incapable of resisting,'" Rocha and Ceasar reported.

Sharper entered a plea deal on the Nevada charges in March 2015, which included an eight-year maximum sentence and a potential release after 38 months, per TMZ Sports.

In June 2015, Sharper pleaded guilty to three rape charges as part of his four-state plea deal involving cases from Louisiana, Nevada, California and Arizona, per Ken Daley of the Times-Picayune.

Per the AP, Clark County District Judge Michelle Leavitt ordered Sharper to register as a sex offender in Nevada.

Civil rights lawyer Gloria Allred read a statement on behalf of one of the victims in the case, according to the AP: "Writing this statement brings me to tears even though it's been so long. I have been fighting for almost three years and to not get the opportunity for my voice to be heard in person makes me sick." It wasn't apparent why the woman was absent.

The AP noted Sharper was expected to receive a prison sentence of about nine years in Louisiana before United States District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo deemed it too light and gave him an 18-year sentence.