No one should get two years in jail for shooting themselves. Stupid - yes = Jail time (TWO YEARS) hell no! Of course we must remember this is NYC where police have shot unarmed people 49 times. One thing is for sure there is no open carry for the public there!
More than likely he will get his sentence reduced but if he does indeed serve 2 years that is awful I understand he was carrying a loaded firearm but 2 years in PRISON! Ouch.
Ridiculous, two years in jail for shooting yourself in the leg, Stallworth drives drunk and kills someone and its 30 days, and he only served what, 24? What a joke.
He's an idiot because his lawyers had a deal for 3 MONTHS jail time back in the spring. And he wouldn't take it. It's rough, but he's lucky nobody else got shot. And laws like this are how they cleaned up the streets of NYC. The 'mandatory' is 3.5 years. So he actually got almost half.
I agree Muck. he's just a idiot. Piss on him. Good player, but good for nothing brains. Sad thing is, his daughter has to miss him for 2 years.
You can commit vehicular manslaughter while over the legal limit in Florida and get 30 days, while if you shoot yourself in the leg accidentally in NY, you get 2 years? Seriously?
Its absurd how much the mayor's office wanted to make an example of him regarding NY's new gun laws. The sad part is Steve Smith (of the Giants) actually got jacked by his driver earlier in the same week and you dont hear jack about that. On the funnier side I could just envision the prison conversations: Cellmate 1: What you in for? Cellmate 2: Killed 2 guys. Cellmate 1: Damn, thats messed up. Cellmate 2: What you in for? Cellmate 1: Armed assault and battery Cellmate 2: What about you Plax? Plax: Uhhh, I shot myself in the leg and didnt have my permit for NY. Cellmates 1 and 2: Say Plax, could you pick up my soap?
Mandatory sentencing has it's benefits and issues just like anything else you try to make bland for several million people. Unfortunately it is what it is, and if he didn't have the gun none of this would be of any consequence. It makes me think of "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
wow he gave up the deal and people are pissed??? So basically they gave him a chance and he lost and people are mad. That doesn't make any sense...
Except that there was a report in NY that this law was applied differently against different people. If the cops thought you were a drug dealer or somebody who was planning to commit a crime then they used the "mandatory" 3.5 years. If you were somebody who had obtained a gun legally in another state and they had no reason to believe you were planning to commit a crime they plead it down and you got no jail time. In this case I think Burress only got jail time b/c he is a celebrity.
There is no comparison between the two. There is no doubt that Burress was responsible for the cause of the infraction (gun carried illegally). They couldn't prove that Stallworth's drunkenness caused the death. The video showed that the victim ran out in front of Stallworth's car in such a manner that nobody could have avoided it, drunk or sober. To be punished for an outcome, they have to prove you caused it.
Are the streets of NYC cleaned up? All that law did was to punish the people who could not meet the 5k mimimum cash carry for a pistol permit. And the "3.5 yrs' is not the whole story, the fact of the matter is 'if" he had taken his case to trial and lost, then he faced 3.5 yrs.
