Lampley officially charged
HBO boxing announcer Jim Lampley was formally charged Friday with violating a temporary restraining order filed by a former beauty queen who was his girlfriend.
The 57-year-old Lampley faces up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine if convicted of the misdemeanor charge, the San Diego 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, something that was covered up because he had a fight to cover that weekend for HBO.
“I am terrified that he will harm me unless he is restrained,” Sanders wrote.
Lampley, scheduled for a court appearance on March 13, has denied any wrongdoing.