Burress Expected to Plead Guilty in Weapons Case

NY+Giants=NYG · 08-20-2009, 08:50 AM

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...-weapons-case/

tjsunstein · 08-20-2009, 08:52 AM

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If the case were to go to trial and Mr. Burress were convicted of all charges — two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and one count of second-degree reckless endangerment — he could face 3½ to 15 years in prison. The plea agreement still needs the approval of a State Supreme Court justice.

So what is best case scenario as to when he gets back to the football field?

NY+Giants=NYG · 08-20-2009, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by tjsunstein

So what is best case scenario as to when he gets back to the football field?

His career is probably done.. He gets 2 years for this since he is pleading guilty. If i am not mistaken the fool could have taken 3 months in jail and be out by now. Instead he chose to fought it, and now in the end, ended up pleading. So he is going to be out of football for 2 years, and that's 2 years more on his shelf life. I doubt he plays again, and if he does, he may be too old.

JRTPlaya21 · 08-20-2009, 09:27 AM

See you later Plaxico. Athletes sure can mess up a good thing.

no bare feet · 08-20-2009, 09:38 AM

Will he make it out of prison alive.

cvv84 · 08-20-2009, 09:59 AM

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Former Giants receiver Plaxico Burress pleaded guilty to felony weapons charges in a Manhattan court Thursday and received a two-year prison sentence.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...er=rss&emc=rss

He couldn't 'Stallworth' his way outta this one.

Brent · 08-20-2009, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by no bare feet

Will he make it out of prison alive.

when you have money, you dont go to the dangerous part of prison.

Seamus2602 · 08-20-2009, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by no bare feet

Will he make it out of prison alive.

He's a 6'5", 235 man. He'll be one of the big boys in prison.

That is Plaxico's career done. He's gonna be an out of shape 34 year old when he gets out of gaol.

Gay Ork Wang · 08-20-2009, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by cvv84

He couldn't 'Stallworth' his way outta this one.

Pay himself?

NY+Giants=NYG · 08-20-2009, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by cvv84

He couldn't 'Stallworth' his way outta this one.

He could have and taken 3 months I think if i remember correctly. But he wanted to fight it all, and now look what happened.. 2 years.

bigbluedefense · 08-20-2009, 10:58 AM

I feel bad for the guy. But he did it to himself.

The only consolation I get out of this (and its definitely wrong for me to feel this way) is he won't hurt us by signing with a competitor.

By the time he gets out, he won't be the Plax we know today.

Geo · 08-20-2009, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Shockey+Manning=Shocking

He could have and taken 3 months I think if i remember correctly. But he wanted to fight it all, and now look what happened.. 2 years.

I know, unbelievable right?

Couldn't happen to a better dumbass.

bigbluedefense · 08-20-2009, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Shockey+Manning=Shocking

He could have and taken 3 months I think if i remember correctly. But he wanted to fight it all, and now look what happened.. 2 years.

Thats all speculation though. PFT reported that plea, but the DA said it was never on the table. We'll probably never know if that plea deal was real, or just fabrication leaked by Burress's attorney to put pressure on the DA's office.

S T R I N G · 08-20-2009, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Shockey+Manning=Shocking

He could have and taken 3 months I think if i remember correctly. But he wanted to fight it all, and now look what happened.. 2 years.

I never heard about this. Do you have a link?

Bloomberg jumped on Burress as soon as this happened. They're trying to make an example out of him.

Giantsfan1080 · 08-20-2009, 11:06 AM

Doesn't NY gun law still have 3 years as the minimum for this type of incident? If that's the case then he still got off easy.

S T R I N G · 08-20-2009, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Giantsfan1080

Doesn't NY gun law still have 3 years as the minimum for this type of incident? If that's the case then he still got off easy.

It's 3.5 years I think. He plead down to attempted criminal possession of a weapon which is why he received a lighter sentence.

bigbluedefense · 08-20-2009, 11:08 AM

If I remember correctly Bob Papa said that Burress was willing to do 1 year in jail, but the DA's office wanted a minimum of 2 (this was awhile back).

So if that were the case, the supposed 3 month plea was most likely a fabrication.

Geo · 08-20-2009, 11:10 AM

More like it was 6 months or 8 months or thereabouts, but I remember reading about it myself. Burress' lawyer got him a deal of a couple months of jailtime but Burress refused, with the inane idea of getting out of this with no jailtime.

And then by the time Burress finally understood that wasn't going to happen, that deal was gone.

S T R I N G · 08-20-2009, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by bigbluedefense

If I remember correctly Bob Papa said that Burress was willing to do 1 year in jail, but the DA's office wanted a minimum of 2 (this was awhile back).

So if that were the case, the supposed 3 month plea was most likely a fabrication.

That's the story I heard. DAs wouldn't settle for anything less than 2 years. Plus you've got the political clout of Bloomberg saying minimum 3.5 years.

S T R I N G · 08-20-2009, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Geo

Maybe it wasn't 3 months, it might have been 6, but I remember reading about it myself. Burress' lawyer got him a deal of a couple months of jailtime but Burress refused, with the inane idea of getting out of this with no jailtime.

This sounds completely fabricated.

Geo · 08-20-2009, 11:19 AM

As I said in the edited post, it might not have been 3 months.

The situation with Plax not wanting to do more than one year and the DA wanting no less than 2 years, that came out three or four months afterwards. That was the latter situation referred to, when he pissed off the DA's office not wanting to do anytime and realized he would have to.

S T R I N G · 08-20-2009, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Geo

As I said in the edited post, it might not have been 3 months.

The situation with Plax not wanting to do more than one year and the DA wanting no less than 2 years, that came out three or four months afterwards. That was the latter situation referred to, when he pissed off the DA's office not wanting to do anytime and realized he would have to.

Is there a source for this? Like I said, sounds fabricated.

Geo · 08-20-2009, 11:23 AM

Yeah this is what PFT said:

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Tension Between Burress, Brafman

Posted by Mike Florio on April 8, 2009 10:56 AM ET
Free-agent receiver Plaxico Burress and his criminal defense lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, currently aren't seeing eye to eye regarding the reluctance of Burress to accept the various plea deals that Brafman has negotiated.

In fact, we're told that Burress has rejected as many as three offers from prosecutors. Each one would have involved jail time -- with Burress released by the start of training camp.

But Burress continues to decline any offer that requires him to go to prison.

Six weeks later though and Papa is saying this to the media:

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May 28, 2009
Bob Papa: Burress afraid of jail
By JUSTIN TERRANOVA

Giants play-by-play man Bob Papa shed some light on Plaxico Burress' legal situation on his Sirius radio show today, and it appears Burress thinks he is above the law.

"This is what I've been told and what I've heard," Papa said on the air. "They worked out something where they had it down to about a three-month jail term with actually only two months served and about 1,500 hours of community service. And I think his lawyers felt that they had a pretty good deal. He doesn't want to go to jail at all. He shot down the deal."

So if this is true -- and I cannot think of one, single reason Papa would make this up or bring it up without direct knowledge -- then Burress, who was cut by the Giants last month, would already be out of prison.

"He does not want to go to jail at all," Papa said on the air. "So now coming up in another couple of weeks we're gonna find out what's gonna happen. But my guess is that the city of New York is not gonna back off any kind of jail time."

Confirms the aforementioned 3 months right there.

Fabricate this.

bigbluedefense · 08-20-2009, 11:25 AM

Wow.

So Burress really is a complete dumbass.

NY+Giants=NYG · 08-20-2009, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by S T R I N G

I never heard about this. Do you have a link?

Bloomberg jumped on Burress as soon as this happened. They're trying to make an example out of him.

I tried finding it, but the beat writers make it hard because the stuff isn't archived. I remember bloomberg wanted jail time no matter what. He just didn't want Plax getting off. I could have sworn it was 3 months, and he'd be back by training camp. This was back when it happened and then got processed in the spring. But he thought he could win and said no.

I posted it on our giants BBI board so someone should respond.