Associated Press
16 February 2007
SAN DIEGO — Sports announcer Jim Lampley was charged Friday with violating a temporary restraining order filed by a former beauty queen.
The 57-year-old Lampley faces up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine if convicted of the misdemeanor charge, the district attorney’s office said.
The charge stems from his January arrest in connection with a report of domestic violence. According to court records, 28-year-old Candice Sanders claimed that Lampley attacked her in her Encinitas apartment on New Year’s Eve.
“I received injuries to my head, neck and back from his throwing me against the walls and door,” she wrote in her request for a straining order.
Sanders, Miss California USA 2003, also alleged that Lampley had been drinking and smoking marijuana before attacking her. She claimed he threw her to the floor at a New York restaurant two months ago.
“I am terrified that he will harm me unless he is restrained,” Sanders wrote.
Lampley, who is scheduled for a court appearance on March 13, has denied any wrongdoing. A call to his lawyer, Thomas Warwick, was not immediately returned.
Lampley began his broadcasting career began with ABC in the mid-1970s. He later worked for CBS and NBC and more recently as a boxing commentator for HBO. He currently appears as himself in the movie “Rocky Balboa.”
