Michael Vick gets 23 months

[minnieandme]

The sentence was just handed down.

http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/s...0/vick_1211.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

 

[MamaLema]

The sentence was just handed down.

http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/s...0/vick_1211.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

yes, but how much time will he ACTUALLY serve?

 

[SandraVB79]

Who is he/ what did he do?

 

[minnieandme]

yes, but how much time will he ACTUALLY serve?

I'm thinking 6 months to 1 year with the remaining time on probation.

 

[LakeAriel]

There are other charges still pending..He also has to pay 1 million to care for the pits removed from his property. I would say he is ruined and should be..Like he ruined his dogs. Those which lived.

 

[maxiesmom]

GOOD!!!!!!!!

The judge didn't feel he was still taking responsibility for what he had done. Plus he had a positive drug test, and he had some issues with a lie detector test.


The court commentator on SportCenter said that at a Federal prision, he will most likely serve ALL of his sentance. That he would have been MUCH better off if he had come clean to the State cops, and delt with it on that level.

To have such talent and then squander all the opportuinities it provided him.

 

[DVC Sadie]

I wish he would have received the whole 5 years for what he put those animals through.

Maybe he should have been placed in a room with his "pets" for 5 minutes. Not really but cases like this just make me sick.

 

[DawnCt1]

I am glad that he got 23 months and I hope that he uses this opportunity to reflect on how things could have been different. I hope that he will look at his new surroundings and consider the property that he lived in...and lost. I hope that he will have to pay whatever is required. AND THEN I hope that he will be able to move on, get his career back and become all that his talents and opportunity promised he would be...that he threw away.

 

[reeeoga]

There are other charges still pending..He also has to pay 1 million to care for the pits removed from his property. I would say he is ruined and should be..Like he ruined his dogs. Those which lived.

Another 10 to 20 months on the other charges would be nice, but this sentence is a good start.

 

[Poohbear123]

I wish he would have received the whole 5 years for what he put those animals through.

Maybe he should have been placed in a room with his "pets" for 5 minutes. Not really but cases like this just make me sick.

Yep, too bad it wasn't 23 YEARS!

 

[Laura]

Federal rules governing time off for good behavior could reduce Vick's prison stay by about three months, resulting in a summer 2009 release.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3148549

 

[Barbossa]

Though Vick did a crime and should do the time, it still bugs me that crimes against animals often draw more publicity and outrage than crimes against human beings.

That said, I'm sure glad the Chargers chose LaDanian over Vick!

 

[holbear]

from article..

Vick must serve 85 percent of his sentence, or 19-1/2 months. The earliest he could get out of prison is May 2009.

This is just the federal ruling. He is going to go on trial in the state of VA as well.

 

[salmoneous]

Though Vick did a crime and should do the time, it still bugs me that crimes against animals often draw more publicity and outrage than crimes against human beings.

Maybe that happens - but not in this case. Had Vick systemically participated in the maiming and murder of people over the past 5 years, he'd have gotten a lot more outrage, and a lot more than 23 months in jail.

 

[CapeCodTenor]

Good, I'm glad he got 23 months, wish it was a bit more, but this will due. Besides, he probably screwed up his career anyways, which is sweet.

 

[sweetandsassyfl]

I disagree, Dawnct....he doesn't deserve to have his career back and any team that would take him is not going to be one that I would root for (although I can think of a good fit for him )

 

[hiwaygal]

Though Vick did a crime and should do the time, it still bugs me that crimes against animals often draw more publicity and outrage than crimes against human beings.

I disagree...

I think that difference is the controversy. Some folks think animals are disposable so don't have a problem with what Vick did.

If he had done that to humans no one would disagree that what he did was wrong, so there wouldn't have been as much attention to it.

I hope that made sense...

 

[Barbossa]

Maybe that happens - but not in this case. Had Vick systemically participated in the maiming and murder of people over the past 5 years, he'd have gotten a lot more outrage, and a lot more than 23 months in jail.

I certainly don't equate mass killings of dogs to mass murder of human beings. The murder of a single human is worse than all of Vick's dogs put together.

 

[PixieDust32]

I knew it. I told DH 2 years.

 

[PixieDust32]

I certainly don't equate mass killings of dogs to mass murder of human beings. The murder of a single human is worse than all of Vick's dogs put together.