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 critically injuring a truck driver exterior a resort in what prosecutors say was a dispute over a parking place.
The pretrial convention lasted solely about 2½ minutes. Sanchez, who was extra critically 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 right this moment's listening to,” protection lawyer Tim DeLaney informed the decide, who additionally set one other listening to for Nov. 20 and confirmed the subsequent pretrial convention date for Dec. 2. “He is nonetheless recovering from the accidents he sustained.”
Most of these dates had been set earlier, however they're all topic to alter. DeLaney stated Sanchez's restoration course of is ongoing and may impression 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 because the Oct. 4 incident on the Westin Resort 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 rely of battery involving severe bodily damage, together with three misdemeanor costs, together with public intoxication. He declined to handle the allegations as he left the hospital with an arm in a sling Oct. 12.
“I am simply targeted on my restoration, and I simply need to thank the primary responders,” Sanchez told Indianapolis station Fox59. “… However I am targeted on my restoration, and I simply need to see my spouse, I need to see my son, my two child ladies. There will be a day to reply all these questions, and sadly, right this moment will not be that day.”
Sanchez stays free on bond. The court docket allowed him to return residence to California.
A detective's affidavit says Sanchez, 38, accosted Perry Tole, 69, 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 stated 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 pulled a knife to defend himself, he informed police.
Safety video exhibits Sanchez throwing Tole towards a wall of 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 stated little publicly concerning the incident aside from a quick 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 stated in a social media submit.
