UPDATE:  Michael Vick's Sentencing, Startling Admissions 
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

UPDATE:  Michael Vick, the fallen Atlanta Falcon's football player charged with federal dogfighting, was sentenced to 23 months in prison yesterday by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson.  Vick appeared in court yesterday morning, where prosecutors revealed that he had hung two dogs, arranged the killing of six to eight pit bulls, and injured many others through an illegal dogfighting enterprise.

Vick, who denied the charges for months, pled guilty in court.  He did not admit to personally hanging two of the abused canines until an October 12th polygraph administered by FBI.  (Scared, was he?  Good.)  Judge Hudson said that he was also concerned that Vick made conflicting statements to FBI agents about his role in the illegal venture.

"You were a full participant," Hudson told him, "And you were at least equally culpable with every other man sentenced in this case."  Federal guidelines set the prison term for Vick's offense at 12 to 18 months.  Judge Hudson, however, was not bound by those guidelines, and imposed a term five months longer than was required by law.

"I think the judge sent a very clear message that dogfighting is a dead-end activity with meaningful consequences," said John Goodwin, a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States.  About 50 animal rights protestors held signs across the street from the courthouse.

Well, if the Humane Society is happy with the verdict, so am I - but had I been the judge, I would have given Vick the full five years.

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