As Lester Munson, ESPN's own legal advisor explained to them, this makes no sense. Vick has no leverage. The Feds have several witnesses to his gambling and at least 2 to his killing dogs.
This is an attempt at an end around by Vick's crack legal team who made a mistake when they allowed him to plead guilty without a plea agreement in place. As Munson says, at this point the deal could just as easily fall apart since the Feds are under no obligation to accept a plea from Vick for anything less than they had previously offered - he has no leverage. The only offer on the table was plead guilty as charged or face a superceding indictment. That option still stands since the Judge merely put the Grand Jury on hold pending an anticipated plea agreement.
Maybe if they reconvene, they could listen to testimony from this guy, who seems to have first hand knowledge of things an informer and Deion Sanders alluded to earlier - Mike was fighting dogs out of college and this is his passion...:
Vick deeply into dogfighting, father says
QB's dad says he didn't abandon family
By BY MATT KEMPNER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/24/07
Michael Vick's father said he pushed his son to quit dogfighting years ago or, at least, put property used for the fights in the name of friends to avoid being implicated some day.
Michael Boddie, in two sometimes tearful interviews with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week, said some time around 2001 his son staged dogfights in the garage of the family's home in Newport News, Va. Boddie also said Vick kept fighting dogs in the family's backyard, including injured ones — "bit up, chewed up, exhausted" — that the father nursed back to health.
Boddie, who is estranged from his son, dismissed the idea that Vick's longtime friends were the main instigators of the dogfighting operation.
"I wish people would stop sugarcoating it," Boddie said. "This is Mike's thing. And he knows it."
He "likes it, and he has the capital to have a set up like that."
He said that, despite his earlier warnings to his son, he never expected Vick would someday face the dogfighting troubles he is in now.
"I thought he would have gotten out of it by then, gotten it out of his system."
http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/falcons/stories/2007/08/23/vickdad_0824.html