Two years for Plaxico

[TheSportsPredictor]

Wow, what a dumbass. Completely ****ed up his life over stupidity.

NEW YORK – Former New York Giant Plaxico Burress pleaded guilty to a weapons charge and agreed to a two-year prison term for accidentally shooting himself at a Manhattan nightclub.

 

[spnited]

Seems like the same deal he turned down last month.
Nice to see somebody try to enforce some gun possession laws.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/burress-expected-to-plead-guilty-in-weapons-case/?ref=sports

 

[Boom_70]

wow - talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

 

[Armchair_QB]

wow - talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

BOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

So now the douchebag 890-year-old Manhattan DA has himself a bigname celebrity conviction to ride off into retirement with. Good for him. ::)

 

[Steak Snabler]

So he got a month less than Michael Vick? Just sayin ...

 

[Boom_70]

Between Roger Goodell and The NYC penal system the asylum is starting to rest back control from the inmates.

 

[Drip]

OK let's get this straight. Football star brings gun into NYC, illegally, shoots himself accidentally and is given a two year prison term? Yet there is riff-raft running around owning the streets and never seeing a year in jail? Justice is definitely blind.

 

[Fudgie the Whale]

HOW WILL THIS AFFECT MY FANTASY TEAM?!

 

[Drip]

HOW WILL THIS AFFECT MY FANTASY TEAM?!

It shouldn't. He wasn't on any NFL team's roster.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

HOW WILL THIS AFFECT MY FANTASY TEAM?!

It shouldn't. He wasn't on any NFL team's roster.

Fudgie's joke

Drip's head​

 

[Armchair_QB]

HOW WILL THIS AFFECT MY FANTASY TEAM?!

It shouldn't. He wasn't on any NFL team's roster.

Fudgie's joke

Drip's head​

 

[mustangj17]

Rather harsh. Even for an idiot like Plaxico.

 

[Cousin Oliver]

Yeah, that’s what I thought, too. We like to say athletes/celebrities get off easy. But it seems to be the opposite in this case. I can’t imagine Joey Public being sent to prison for two years – even with NYC’s handgun laws.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Anything over 90 days is absurd.

Remind me again how much time Donte Stallworth served?

Plax is a dumbass, but the only person he hurt was himself. Pay a big fine, do a lot of community service and move on...

But I'm sure the DA and the judge are thrilled at the publicity they're getting...

 

[spnited]

I don't care how much Morgenthau is grandstanding. It's good to see the law actually inforced against an asshole athlete carrying a concealed, unlicensed weapon in a crowded club.
He could have gotten 3 1/2-15 if convicted at trial on all counts. So two years seems gine.

As for the Stallworth comparison, just because Florida law condones vehicular homicide doesn't mean NYC can't enforce ITS laws.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

That's bull****... I'm all for holding him accountable, but this is nothing other than grandstanding by a DA for his own political gain.

If he'd gotten 90 days I'd have thought that was harsh.

 

[mb]

Today's lesson: Killing a man while, IIRC, drunk and high is bad. But not even remotely as bad as shooting yourself in the leg.

 

[Webster]

I doubt that Robert Morgenthau needs the publicity and all the judge did was approve a plea bargain.

The law in New York is pretty clear and not everything can be based on what happened with Stallworth in Florida

 

[Drip]

This is wrong on so many levels.