Judge Rejects Albert’s Claim

Circuit Judge Benjamin N.A. Kendrick rejected Marv Albert’s claim that sex charges against him should be dismissed because a member of the grand jury that indicted him managed the prosecutor’s election campaign. The NBC sportscaster is charged with forcible sodomy and assault and battery in a Feb. 12 attack on a Virginia woman.

He faces up to life in prison if convicted.

Albert sat silently and held hands with his fiancee, Heather Faulkiner, during the 3-hour hearing. He left afterward without making any comment.

His attorney, Roy Black, argued that the grand jury was tainted because one juror, Amy Levine, had run Commonwealth Attorney Richard Trodden’s campaigns.