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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Rather bizarre. He pays off the family and somehow that allows him to plead guility and yet the guilty plea is not considered a conviction. A conviction would have require a mandatory 4-year sentence. Somehow or another I think a few people not in the victim's family also got paid.
Florio mentioned this on the PFT piece but it really does show how absurd the Michael Vick penalty was. If Vick has to now sit out 4 games it will only add to this inbalence.
murdering a human being -- 1 month in jail
abusing a mutt -- 22 months in jail
realizing our criminal justice system is ******* joke, that values the life of a dog more than people -- priceless.
murdering a human being -- 1 month in jail
abusing a mutt -- 22 months in jail
realizing our criminal justice system is ******* joke, that values the life of a dog more than people -- priceless.
Florio mentioned this on the PFT piece but it really does show how absurd the Michael Vick penalty was. If Vick has to now sit out 4 games it will only add to this inbalence.
murdering a human being -- 1 month in jail
abusing a mutt -- 22 months in jail
realizing our criminal justice system is ******* joke, that values the life of a dog more than people -- priceless.
recognizing the difference between an ongoing, multiyear conspiracy and commission of a violent felony and an accident -- priceless.
what happened was still a blink-of-an-eye accident.
I'm not saying either penalty is right or wrong, but you're doing your entire assessment of the crimes based on the severity of outcome. There's a lot more to it, including intent, ongoing patterns of behavior, coverups, etc. Stallworth was tragically irresponsible to drive intoxicated, but what happened was still a blink-of-an-eye accident. Vick ran an organized criminal conspiracy for years.
Not exactly premeditated, but it's not like there was not plenty of time for him to do the right thing, if not intoxicated. I think 30 days is a joke, and whomever passed the laws for mandatory 4-year terms for convicted DUI manslaughter must be really ticked (though 4 years may be a little harsh).
I'm not making any comparisons to Vick at all. I just think that Stallworth's multimillion dollar payout allowed a way around the justice system, and that stinks.
My brother-in-law (as does many people) engages in willful premediated killing of animials on a regular basis. Thing is bambi just doesn't have as good of an agent as fido so it is perfectly lawful.
Vick abused a dogs --- animials, like cows or the chicken I had for lunch. Stallworth killed a person. Vicks punishment was way too stringiant and Stallworth got a slap on the wrist.
He's only serving 30 days. Which is total BS.
None of us know the facts in possession of the prosecutor, but it is clear that they were worried that they would not be able to show a causal link between the intoxication and the accident, which is a required element of the crime.
And that's what plea bargains are all about, reducing risk on both sides. Still, 30 days -- just 2% of the mandatory sentence if convicted -- is pretty darned light.
If you take bambi and slam her into a wall, or drown her, you're going to have issues with Johnny Law. Just because society has decided that hunting and raising animals is OK doesn't mean that you can do anything you want to them.My brother-in-law (as does many people) engages in willful premediated killing of animials on a regular basis. Thing is bambi just doesn't have as good of an agent as fido so it is perfectly lawful.
Vick abused a dogs --- animials, like cows or the chicken I had for lunch. Stallworth killed a person. Vicks punishment was way too stringiant and Stallworth got a slap on the wrist.
Wowza...too bad one of the victims relatives doesn't get drunk and run Stallworth over. For only 30 days punishment I would do it if it were my brother he killed.