Sanchez's trial date Dec. 11 over fight with driver

INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indianapolis justice connected Wednesday confirmed Dec. 11 arsenic the proceedings day for Fox Sports expert and erstwhile NFL subordinate Mark Sanchez, who's charged with attacking and earnestly injuring a motortruck operator extracurricular a edifice successful what prosecutors accidental was a quality implicit a parking place.

The pretrial league lasted lone astir 2 1/2 minutes. Sanchez, who was much earnestly wounded successful the confrontation, was not required to beryllium contiguous and did not participate a plea.

"Thank you for allowing our lawsuit to beryllium excused from today's hearing. He's inactive recovering from the injuries helium sustained," defence lawyer Tim DeLaney told the judge, who besides acceptable different proceeding for Nov. 20 and confirmed the adjacent pretrial league day for Dec. 2.

Most of those dates were acceptable earlier, but they're each taxable to change. DeLaney said Sanchez's betterment process is ongoing and whitethorn interaction the schedule. Prosecutors expressed uncertainty afterward that Dec. 11 is simply a realistic proceedings date.

Defense attorneys near without taking questions from reporters.

Sanchez has been disconnected the aerial since the Oct. 4 incidental astatine the Westin Hotel successful downtown Indianapolis. He was successful municipality for the weekend's crippled betwixt the Colts and the Las Vegas Raiders. Sanchez was stabbed successful the thorax and spent a week successful a hospital. The trucker, who claims self-defense and has not been charged, is suing him and Fox Sports for unspecified damages.

Prosecutors charged Sanchez with a felony number of artillery involving superior bodily injury, on with 3 misdemeanor charges, including nationalist intoxication. He declined to code the allegations arsenic helium near the infirmary with his limb successful a sling Oct. 12.

"I'm conscionable focused connected my betterment and I conscionable privation to convey the archetypal responders. ... But I'm focused connected my recovery, and I conscionable privation to spot my wife, I privation to spot my son, my 2 babe girls," Sanchez told Indianapolis presumption Fox59. "There'll beryllium a time to reply each these questions, and unfortunately, contiguous is not that day."

Sanchez remains escaped connected bond. The tribunal allowed him to instrumentality location to California.

A detective's affidavit says the 38-year-old Sanchez accosted 69-year-old Perry Tole, who had backed his motortruck into the hotel's loading dock. Tole, who drives for a cooking lipid work company, told constabulary that Sanchez smelled of intoxicant and his code was slurred. He said Sanchez entered his motortruck without permission, past physically blocked and shoved Tole, who past deed Sanchez with capsicum spray.

When Sanchez precocious contempt being sprayed, Tole told police, helium pulled a weapon to support himself.

Security video shows Sanchez throwing Tole toward a partition connected the edifice and to the ground, earlier moving off, the affidavit says. Police recovered him astatine a edifice connected the aforesaid block.

"We are virtually talking astir radical warring implicit a parking abstraction and - oregon a quality astir wherever radical are parking, and it resulted successful idiosyncratic receiving conscionable incredibly important injures," Marion County authoritative Ryan Mears told reporters Oct. 6.

Sanchez had a 10-year NFL vocation earlier retiring successful 2019. He spent 4 seasons with the New York Jets and besides played for Philadelphia, Dallas and Washington. He appeared connected ABC and ESPN earlier joining Fox Sports arsenic a crippled expert successful 2021.

Fox Sports has said small publically astir the incident, but for a little connection instantly afterward.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with Mark, and we inquire that everyone delight respect his and his family's privateness during this time," the web said successful a societal media post.