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SENTENCED. MARV ALBERT, 56, the ex-NBC sportscaster with an X-rated sex life; for biting lover Vanessa Perhach; to a 12-month suspended sentence; in Arlington, Va. Albert, who admitted "I am sorry" in court, could have received up to a year behind bars and a $2,500 fine for his guilty plea last month to assault and battery...
Dartboard is saddened by the fate of broadcasting great Marv Albert. Two weeks ago Marv plead guilty to misdemeanor charges of assault and battery, putting an end to the trial which held him accused of biting and sexually assaulting 42-year-old Vanessa Perhach. Marv was promptly fired by NBC. Dartboard believes that the trial was a sham and that the network's action was an injustice...
...anonymity while the intimate details of Marv's personal life were plastered across the headlines. It is certainly a noble goal to protect the victims of sexual assault from mistreatment in the courtroom, but why should Marv's past conduct have been subject to the closest scrutiny, while Perhach's character history have remained off-limits? Perhach is not a minor, and she admits that the alleged assault occurred in the context of a consentual encounter. Neither of these facts excuses an assault if one occurred, but both parties deserve a mature examination...
Marv copped his plea bargain at a point in the trial when many legal experts felt he was on his way to acquittal. The defense had just presented evidence that Perhach had attempted to bribe a cab driver to get him to make damaging claims about Marv. The credibility of Marv's accuser was thus finally cast into appropriate doubt. When Marv finally did decide to throw in the towel, it came after a witness testified about a past sexual-encounter, during which she claimed he wore women's lingerie and a garter belt. Therefore, Marv's plea can accurately...
After the trial, Albert's accuser revealed herself to be Vanessa Perhach, a hotel worker from Vienna, Va. "I got justice," she said in a newspaper interview. "He admitted he did something wrong." She also said she hoped Albert wouldn't be thrown in the slammer...
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