"Eric Holder/Michael Vick"....Can't Wrap it Around!

[KoKo]

* July 25, 2007, 9:11 AM ET

Michael Vick Retains Billy Martin; NFL Retains Eric Holder

vick and co.It’s about time we bark about the Michael Vick story. The feds indicted the Falcons quarterback (pictured, center) for his involvement in a dogfighting ring. If you want to know more about dogfighting but were afraid to ask, check out this article from Newsweek, which in its Conventional Wisdom Watch column asks Vick, “Isn’t pro football violent enough?”

Vick has hired high-profile criminal defense attorney Billy Martin to represent him. When Martin (picture, left) moved to Sutherland Asbill from Blank Rome in February, we did a Law Blog Q&A with the high-profile criminal defense attorney. He has developed a niche representing professional athletes in hot water, including hoopsters Jayson Williams and Allen Iverson, and boxer Riddick Bowe. He’s also defending Wesley Snipes on tax fraud charges. (Law Blog Trivia: He’s married to NPR’s Michel Martin.) We had the following exchange:

So what’s the deal with athletes behaving badly? Are they any worse than the public at large?

No, I think it’s just that they make headlines when they do. You have teenagers and kids in their early 20s with multimillion dollar contracts. And often their experience handling money and life have to catch up with their years of age.

Meanwhile, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (not a lawyer) appointed Eric Holder to oversee the NFL’s review of the dogfighting charges against Vick. Holder (pictured, right) is a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration and now a partner at D.C.’s Covington & Burling, the league’s outside counsel. Paul Tagliabue, the NFL’s longtime commissioner, is a former Covington partner. Holder, by the way, is also the latest member of the Law Blog Moustache Society.

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[truedelphi]

1. Am I living in an altrernate uiniverse?

Is this article current? Isn't Eric Holder busy enough being the Attorney General for the USA? Is it a joke?

Please detail a bit more about this article.

I imagine that if it is true that Holder currently has enough time on hand to play attorney for the NFL, then maybe we ought to get someone in that office that would do the job.

I mean, I for one, would like an Attorney General who was trying desperately to get that little matter of "Habeus Corpus" restored for all Americans.

[SidDithers]

2. The article is from 2007...

guess the OP thought we had enough current Vick threads, and needed some old ones too.

Sid

[CakeGrrl]

3. Vick Derangement Syndrome?

He was tried, convicted and went to jail.

Have people forgotten that?