Co-defendant Links Vick to Killing of at Least 8 Dogs

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

By LARRY O'DELL

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -It's up to Michael Vick now.

His last two co-defendants pleaded guilty Friday and implicated Vick in bankrolling gambling on dogfights. One of them said the Atlanta Falcons quarterback helped drown or hang dogs that didn't do well.


Purnell A. Peace, a defendant in the Michael Vick dogfighting case, arrives at Federal court in front of protesters in Richmond, Va., Friday, Aug. 17, 2007. Purnell Peace, 35, of Virginia Beach and Quanis Phillips, 28, of Atlanta entered plea agreements and joined another defendant who previously changed his plea to guilty. The agreements require the three to cooperate in the government's case against Vick. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

With his NFL career in jeopardy and a superseding indictment adding more charges in the works, that left Vick with a hard choice: Cutting his own deal to hold jail time under a year or go to trial and sit through detailed descriptions of the ghastly operation known as "Bad Newz Kennels."

Falcons owner Arthur Blank said Vick's attorneys were negotiating with prosecutors as of late afternoon, trying to hammer out a plea deal.




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[Kagemusha]

1. Plus state charges... which may stick better with this evidence.

I've got to think that the gambling angle alone destroys his career for life, and he's fighting to keep prison time down (let's not mince words, not jail, prison).

[Fridays Child]

2. Soulless fuckers.

I hope Vick and his co-defendants are bankrupted by their trials, then chained in an alley and left to eat out of a dumpster.

[napi21]

3. What a dumb "F"! He had to world by the tail! Superstar of the NFL,

BIG $$ comtract, and thousands if not millions of fans. So the dumbass scraps it all for something as stupid as dogfights!!!!! I wonder if he's reached the point YET where he lays awake at night asking himself "why in the hell did I do that?"

[Hekate]

4. Pleading out so he won't have to sit through the "ghastly details"? Not good enough.

All the defendents should have to sit through a trial and hear their deeds described, so the normal humans on the jury can register their shock and disgust. Maybe then it will sink in to Vick and pals just how perverted they really are.

Hekate

[Myrina]

7. "Sit through the details"? Fuck that, wire him up and hit the juice.

:mad:

[hyphenate]

5. A plea deal could mean

that Vick would only serve 2 years in jail. I think we need to find an animal rights group and fight for a longer sentence for this bastard. Perhaps someone is already working on that, but I would personally participate in any effort designed to punish this asshole appropriately.

[Myrina]

6. " ... trying to hammer out a plea deal ... "

I know what kinda deal I'd hammer out if I got anywhere near that lowlife motherfucker ...

:nuke: :mad: :nuke: :mad:

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. Awful as this is at least it has brought dogfighting out into the

light of day.

It is practiced with such a degree of secrecy that it has been all but impossible for officials to bust these outfits.

There need to be really stiff penalties for this kind of abuse and for gambling in this manner.
Public outrage at this kind of heinous practice can only help.

[natrat]

9. as you may know the atlanta naacp came out in support of vick

i emailed them and may have gone over the top:

"you probably support him just because and only because he is black. Talk about racism. Shame on you. The dude drowns and electrocutes dogs and somehow you defend him just because he's black. Shame on you for losing your way and not recognizing he is a bad person regardless of skin colour."

[Dervill Crow]

10. Not over the top at all.

Anyone defending that scum is as reprehensible as he is. Your email is dead on.