After he was convicted of drugging a patient to sexually assault her, James Mauti was sentenced last April to a year in jail, but was released on bail 10 days later, pending an appeal.

State officials say legal briefs for the appeal have not been filed.

Mauti, 44, who has denied all allegations in the case, was sentenced April 5 to serve 364 days in the Union County jail in Elizabeth. The sentence came four months after a jury convicted Mauti of sexual contact, but acquitted him of the more serious charge of aggravated sexual assault.

On April 15, Mauti was released on $75,000 bail, pending an appeal, according to court records. His lawyer filed a notice of appeal that same day, according to a court spokeswoman.

However, transcripts of the trial conducted in Superior Court in Elizabeth have not been filed with the state Appellate Court in Trenton, and legal briefs for the appeal cannot be filed until after the court receives the trial records, state officials said.

The charges against Mauti, once a doctor of sports medicine, sent shock waves through his family.

The patient who filed the criminal complaint is a relative, and the mother of the patient testified at trial that the patient admitted having doubts about whether an assault occurred. The mother also testified that the patient spoke vengefully of Mauti. At the time of her testimony, the mother was living with Mauti and his wife.

At the sentencing, nearly 30 friends and relatives appeared in court to support Mauti.

The patient, in a statement that Union County Assistant Prosecutor Melissa Spagnoli read to Judge Stuart Peim at sentencing, said she had been ostracized from her family, and that she and her young daughter have had no contact with relatives.

Mauti’s lawyer at sentencing, Joseph Garrubbo, said his client had lost his medical career and would have to register as a sex offender. He requested that the sentence be stayed pending an appeal, but Spagnoli objected, saying the patient had waited years to see Mauti punished.

At trial, the patient said she went to Mauti in November 2006 for back pain treatment and he gave her a liquid sedative later identified as chloral hydrate, a legal drug implicated in date-rape crimes.

The woman testified that after drinking the liquid, she couldn’t move as Mauti repositioned her and, according to her testimony, he sexually assaulted her multiple times.

Mauti denied the allegation during testimony, saying he was shocked by the accusations.

In appeals cases, lawyers generally have 45 days to file legal briefs after all transcripts have been filed with the court, according to Tamara Kendig, spokeswoman for the state judiciary.

As of last week, not all of the transcripts had reached the appeals court, Kendig said.

A call to Mauti’s lawyer handing the appeal was not returned, and Mauti did not return a message left with a relative. The Union County Prosecutor’s Office declined to comment on the appeal.

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