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Ex-NFL player Darren Sharper returns to LA court seeking release on bail
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Darren Sharper will return to court on Friday where his attorneys will argue that the former NFL All-Pro safety should be released from a Los Angeles jail.
• Sharper has been held without bail because of an arrest warrant issued by Louisiana authorities accusing him and another man of raping two women.
• Sharper's attorneys filed a motion Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court arguing that since Sharper has not been formally charged in Louisiana, he should be released on the terms of $1 million bail he has already posted.
• The former player and football analyst had pleaded not guilty to charges he drugged and raped two women in Los Angeles County and turned himself in last week when New Orleans police issued an arrest warrant on the similar charges.
• The athlete's attorneys contend that Los Angeles prosecutors are using the Louisiana case to improperly keep Sharper behind bars until his Los Angeles case is resolved.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Friday, March 7, the 66th day of 2014. There are 299 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On March 7, 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., unanimously ruled that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered "fair use" that doesn't require permission from the copyright holder. (The ruling concerned a parody of the Roy Orbison song "Oh, Pretty Woman" by the rap group 2 Live Crew.)
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• On this date:
• In 1793, during the French Revolutionary Wars, France declared war on Spain.
• In 1850, in a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Un (Continued on page 29)
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