INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis decide on Wednesday confirmed Dec. 11 because the trial date for Fox Sports activities analyst and former NFL participant Mark Sanchez, who’s charged with attacking and significantly injuring a truck driver exterior a resort in what prosecutors say was a dispute over a parking place.
The pretrial convention lasted solely about 2 1/2 minutes. Sanchez, who was extra significantly damage within the confrontation, was not required to be current and didn’t enter a plea.
“Thanks for permitting our consumer to be excused from at this time’s listening to. He is nonetheless recovering from the accidents he sustained,” protection lawyer Tim DeLaney informed the decide, who additionally set one other listening to for Nov. 20 and confirmed the following pretrial convention date for Dec. 2.
Most of these dates have been set earlier, however they’re all topic to alter. DeLaney mentioned Sanchez’s restoration course of is ongoing and should affect the schedule. Prosecutors expressed doubt afterward that Dec. 11 is a sensible trial date.
Protection attorneys left with out taking questions from reporters.
Sanchez has been off the air for the reason that Oct. 4 incident on the Westin Lodge in downtown Indianapolis. He was on the town for the weekend’s recreation between the Colts and the Las Vegas Raiders. Sanchez was stabbed within the chest and spent per week in a hospital. The trucker, who claims self-defense and has not been charged, is suing him and Fox Sports activities for unspecified damages.
Prosecutors charged Sanchez with a felony depend of battery involving severe bodily damage, together with three misdemeanor fees, together with public intoxication. He declined to deal with the allegations as he left the hospital along with his arm in a sling Oct. 12.
“I am simply centered on my restoration and I simply wish to thank the primary responders. … However I am centered on my restoration, and I simply wish to see my spouse, I wish to see my son, my two child ladies,” Sanchez informed Indianapolis station Fox59. “There will be a day to reply all these questions, and sadly, at this time isn’t that day.”
Sanchez stays free on bond. The courtroom allowed him to return house to California.
A detective’s affidavit says the 38-year-old Sanchez accosted 69-year-old Perry Tole, who had backed his truck into the resort’s loading dock. Tole, who drives for a cooking oil service firm, informed police that Sanchez smelled of alcohol and his speech was slurred. He mentioned Sanchez entered his truck with out permission, then bodily blocked and shoved Tole, who then hit Sanchez with pepper spray.
When Sanchez superior regardless of being sprayed, Tole informed police, he pulled a knife to defend himself.
Safety video exhibits Sanchez throwing Tole towards a wall on the resort and to the bottom, earlier than working off, the affidavit says. Police discovered him at a restaurant on the identical block.
“We are actually speaking about individuals combating over a parking house and – or a dispute about the place persons are parking, and it resulted in somebody receiving simply extremely important injures,” Marion County prosecutor Ryan Mears informed reporters Oct. 6.
Sanchez had a 10-year NFL profession earlier than retiring in 2019. He spent 4 seasons with the New York Jets and likewise performed for Philadelphia, Dallas and Washington. He appeared on ABC and ESPN earlier than becoming a member of Fox Sports activities as a recreation analyst in 2021.
Fox Sports activities has mentioned little publicly in regards to the incident, apart from a short assertion instantly afterward.
“Our ideas and prayers are with Mark, and we ask that everybody please respect his and his household’s privateness throughout this time,” the community mentioned in a social media submit.