Michael Vick will likely submit a plea deal with State prosecutors, who failed to take action early in the dog fighting incidents that ultimately led Federal prosecutors to step in due to a miscarriage of justice and impose penalties larger than those that the State or County would have imposed if they had done their job.

Ironically, Commonwealth Attorney Poindexter now doesn’t want to make Michael Vick suffer.  If the Commonwealth had carried out its responsibilities early on, its likely that Michael Vick would have likely received a much lighter sentence and possibly would have avoided jail time all together.

Justice may be blind, but sometimes its deaf, dumb and just plain stupid too.

Vick may be allowed to provide a video plea from Federal prison to save taxpayers the expense of transporting him for trial.  This plea arrangement could enable him to take another step towards qualifying for early release.  Absent that he would remain in prison until July of 2009, upon which he might then have to serve out a sentence in the Commonwealth if convicted.

Michael Vick’s dog fighting ring led to a significant amount of collateral damage.  Vick went to prison, filed bankruptcy, his former team and fans have suffered, many dogs were killed, beaten, tortured and some lucky ones were rescued.  A North Carolina man involved in the ring was murdered a few days after Federal prosecutors swarmed over Vick’s property unveiling the grisly details of the ring.  There have been very few positives to come out of this case other than a heightened exposure of the price (and penalty) of dog fighting in America.

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