2009年8月21日星期五

Plaxico Burress accepts plea bargain


 

Facing the anticipation of spending at atomic 3 1/2 years abaft bars, onetime Super Bowl brilliant Plaxico Burress on Thursday accustomed a appeal arrangement with a two-year bastille book for accidentally cutting himself in the thigh at a Manhattan nightclub.

The above New York Giants advanced receiver pleaded accusable to one calculation of attempted bent control of a weapon, a bottom allegation than he had faced. He will be bedevilled Sept. 22, and advocate Benjamin Brafman said he expects Burress to activate confined his book anon after.

Burress, 32, larboard afterwards speaking to reporters alfresco the courthouse, but Brafman said, "After an disturbing aeon of discussion, Plaxico absitively that he capital to do this, to put this abaft him as bound as possible."

The above football brilliant was accusable this ages on two counts of bent control of a weapon and one calculation of adventuresome endangerment.

Hours afterwards his cloister appearance, the NFL appear Commissioner Roger Goodell had abeyant Burress and said he is disqualified to assurance with any aggregation until he completes his bastille term. Goodell, who met with Burress and his assembly endure week, said Burress will be reinstated aloft achievement of his sentence.

With time off for acceptable behavior, Burress apparently will serve 20 months. He will be monitored during an added two years afterwards his release, which could appear as aboriginal as the bounce of 2011.

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