Shoot Yourself, Go To The Slammer: Plax Sentenced To 20 Months.....

Damn...... I mean damn, Vick and the dogs, Stallworth and the manslaughter and now Plax going to jail for shooting himself....... damn! Maybe he'll find Islam while incarcerated and change his name to Plaxikhan

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Plaxico Burress sat in the fifth row of seats in Room 1100 of the New York State Supreme Court building looking nervous. He fidgeted, he licked his lips. It was a few minutes before 10 a.m. on Thursday and Burress had good reason to look so uncomfortable.

As his lawyer would say later, there was no way out. So Burress, the former Giants wide receiver, pled guilty to a single charge of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, accepting the Manhattan district attorney’s offer of a two-year prison sentence rather than trying to beat New York’s strict gun laws in a trial.

He will be sentenced on Sept. 22, when he will begin serving his jail term. The minimum time he’s facing is roughly 20 months, so he will likely be released in May of 2011, when he will be 34 and out of the NFL for 2 1/2 seasons. He also has two years' probation to follow.

“Unfortunately, there is no legal defense we can offer,” Ben Brafman, Burress’ lawyer, told the court in accepting the plea deal. Brafman huddled with Judge Michael Melkonian and assistant DA John Wolfstaetter for several minutes before Burress entered a plea of not guilty, though that was quickly changed when Wolfstaetter said the plea offer that had been on the table for months was finally to be accepted.

“This is a perfect example of how bad judgment sometimes has very terrible consequences, consequences that are far more severe than may be justified,” Brafman told reporters outside the court building. The DA’s office had no comment.