M. Vick sentenced

When I first read that I was disappointed that it wasn't the max, but then I realized, 23 months is almost 2 yrs, even if he's out by summer 2009 (I think that's what the article said) that's still a year a half.  It's a heck of a lot better than the 6 months time I was expecting.

It doesn't seem like much, but at least he is going to serve hard time for this.  I hope this scares the crap out of all those people still participating in this moronic passtime. 

Yeah, I was hoping for more....but, almost two years is better than nothing.....

Well,,,23 months doesn't sound like a lot,,,,but think about it if you were the one in jail for 23 months. It will be eternity.   And not just that...he still faces trial for the state...and if he is found guilty there...he will go right from one sentence to another. So it may be longer than 23 months in the end.

My hope...is that all the other scudsville people out there that are fighting dogs...are aware of what could (and better) happen to them also!

It's a pretty big victory -- we were all morally outraged, but it's very difficult for non-legal folks to really grasp how very THIN our laws are, particularly that carry any serious jail time. 

I want to say this carefully so it's not misconstrued -- It's not illegal to be a 'jerk' or 'immoral' or even 'cruel'.  The "illegality" has to be in the actual crime.  And that tends to be what HE had his actual physical hands on.  And "intent" is a very tricky thing to prove.  Simply trying to prove that he was "behind" it is unbelievably slippery because it's removed so many steps from his actual 'hands'. 

Does that make sense?  In other words, it's so easy to say "well I told someone to .... but they didn't do THAT, they did this instead and THAT was illegal ..."

I just wish they could have actually pinned him with racketeering -- TAKING profits from the fights/betting.  That would have gotten considerably more jail time and would have eternally fried his career.

Hopefully by the time he serves whatever he has to serve, and then emerges and 're-invents' himself he will have missed the best of his career.  PLUS he will have a jail record -- And that does count for something, altho as James Brown proved, it doesn't hold you back a whole lot. Different type of crime totally -- and Mr. Vick has gotten some seriously bad press.

I just wish they could have actually pinned him with racketeering -- TAKING profits from the fights/betting.  That would have gotten considerably more jail time and would have eternally fried his career.

Yeah,,,and its not like we believe that he wasn't making a big profit!!

Shoot,,,,,he wasn't just doing it for the fun of it....

Some team is going to take him when he gets out. Thats of course, if the State doesn't get anything.

snownose

Yeah, I was hoping for more....but, almost two years is better than nothing.....

This was kind of my thought too.  Would've liked more, but I'll take what I can get....