[Anhil8tor]

The tactic isn't surprising, since refusing to admit to killing a dog or to gambling on a dog fight will enhance Vick's ability to avoid Virginia charges and a lengthy NFL suspension.

As a result, we don't buy it. Why would Vick devote so much money to the pursuit of an illegal endeavor that is a conduit for gambling if he wasn't going to "make it interesting"? Otherwise, it's like playing poker for pistachio shells.

While we have tremendous respect for what the federal government has done in this case, and at the risk of getting "randomly" selected for an audit, why are prosecutors letting Vick's people dictate the terms of the statement of facts?

More specifically, why didn't the feds prepare the statement of facts when extending the plea offer and advise Vick that this is the document that he will sign if he accepts the plea?

Purnell Peace and Quanis Phillips admitted to killing eight dogs in April 2007, and they both said that Vick participated. For the feds to allow Vick to avoid this critical fact is, in our view, extremely unfair to the two guys who pleaded out before him. Especially since the statements of fact that they signed can now be used against them by prosecutors in Virginia.

We think that the federal prosecutors should give Vick two options: sign the same document that Peace and Phillips signed, or go to trial. Anything else will undermine the reputation that federal prosecutors currently enjoy.


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[BIRD33]

I just read that.Theres no way he doesnt have to admit to gambling or killing dogs.No matter what he's going to have to deal with his buddies who rolled on him speaking to the media eventually about first hand knowledge of Vick gambling and murdering dogs.He can't escape that.

[WoolyGoat]

I thought he was already in jail and stuff.

[Anhil8tor]

I thought he was already in jail and stuff.

no he pleads august 27th....


I think his lawyers are trying to put a spin on it. No way the feds would let the last person plead less than the first four.

[what?]

this title is a little premature. he may yet be forced to cop to the killing and gambling by the feds. let's put this thread on the shelf until he actually allocutes in court

[BIRD33]

Vicks father seems like a class act.How is a dog chasing a cat a cultural thing?


But Boddie added of Vick: "Nobody dragged him. My son has a fascination with animals anyway. He's a natural dog lover. In our neighborhood in the projects, little boys would get dogs to chase cats in the lumberyard. The big thing with little boys, [they'd] get a dog and sic 'em on the cats. That's what they'd do for fun . . . Yeah, [Vick] did that as a kid. Every little boy in the projects did that. It's a fascination thing. That's just part of his culture growing up.
"When he got into the dogfighting thing, that's the whole gladiator thing. It's like watching 'National Geographic' on TV. It's like watching two men fight. It's the sport. It's the sport of it, to him."

Boddie said that Vick no longer speaks to him. "I have to talk to my son through his assistant," he said.

Through that assistant, Boddie said, he asked his son about two weeks ago to buy him a $270,000 house, a car and a truck, and give him $150,000 to start a business. That request was refused, Boddie said, adding that he was told by Vick's mother, Brenda Boddie, that Martin, Vick's attorney, believed he was attempting to extort money from the family.

Michael Boddie defended the request for money. "That's not asking for much from my son," he said. "Most fathers would want $10 million, $20 million."





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