The continuing saga continues with Michael Vick pleading guilty to one charge of dogfighting in a Sussex County court earlier Tuesday.
A charge of animal cruelty was waved off and Seven now is on a three-year probationary term for the charge that was brought on him in court. He was also fined $2,500 and told to pay court costs- including his transport from Leavenworth, Kansas.
When Surry County District Attorney Gerald Poindexter was asked why he dropped the animal cruelty charge when Seven already admitted to the acts themselves he responded:
"Because I feel what I did today is approved by more than a majority of people in Surry County and that's a constituency I'm concerned about."
Seven is scheduled for release in July of 2009, but since the state charges have been "taken care of," he is elgible for an early release. He could serve the remainder of his sentence in a half-way house and could be out by January to do so.
The plea agreement was reached before a federal report on the case surfaced Friday, including an account from one witness that Vick and two of his co-defendants enjoyed putting family pets into a ring with pit bulls from Bad Newz Kennels and watching the trained fighters injure or kill the pets.
That's nice, ain't it...?
Mary Kay Mallonee has been on the case since the very beginning...
((HT: WAVY-TV))
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