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Manhattan’s district attorney says he wants former Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress to serve time in prison, the New York Post reported.

Robert Morgenthau told the newspaper that Burress, who shot himself with an unlicensed gun in November, was willing to agree to spend a year in jail, but prosecutors insisted on two, the Post reported.

“We’ve always taken the position that he’s going to have to go to jail, whether by trial or by plea,” Morgenthau told the Post for a story in Monday’s edition.

Burress shot himself in the thigh at a nightclub early on the morning of Nov. 29. He was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and faces up to 3 1/2 years in prison. Burress has pleaded not guilty and is free on $100,000 bail. The Giants released Burress in April.

His attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told the Post he was “bitterly disappointed.”

“Now that they have drawn a line in the sand, this is going to be a battle,” Brafman said.

Burress, who caught the go-ahead touchdown in the final minute for New York in the 2008 Super Bowl, also could face disciplinary action by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell under the league’s personal conduct policy.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/deshawzn/ deshawzn

    Not good news at all!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AL-HAQ/ AL-HAQ

    U CAN TAKE A NEGRO OUT DA HOOD, BUT U CANT TAKE DA HOOD OUT DA NEGRO! WUT A FUKN MORON! IF U DON KNO HOW 2 USE A GUN YO DUMB ASS SHUDN B CARRYING 1!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/IWalkAlone247/ IWalkAlone247

    How the hell is it not GOOD news when someone getting arrested for gun possession in New York, with our tough gun laws, actually goes to jail?

    I hope they throw the book at his dumb ass…I’m tired of fame and money being the reason why certain people escape punishment from the law…

    I say use this dumb f**k as an example…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Iwalkalone, i hear you, the law should be obeyed, but I can’t help but wonder how many of these athletes are paying the price for OJ being acquitted of murder..before anyone should laugh at that, keep in mind, we are the ONLY group that has a short memory when it comes to injustices, while other groups NEVER FORGET!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NtelligentlyInclined/ NtelligentlyInclined

    I have no comment on this story. How come I can’t see the names of people who have posted comments?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/weinthere2012/ weinthere2012

    he aint do s**t these crackers gonna pay for how they treat us blacks they gonna pay

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    YTF should he be locked up seriously 3 yeasrs for this s**t and he shot himslelf in the leg lol.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    We are at war and refuse to fight back

    Africans unite and let’s slay this beast

    The white bytch even got our own kind fightn for him just read some of the post. We want our enemy to make an example out of our own ppl. SILLY NEGROPEAN

    Death to all you black nazis right along wit yo white daddy

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alaga5/ alaga5

    Yo, we all make mistakes, whether they be dumb mistakes or not. But, to throw this brother in jail for shooting himself is over the top and yes, race has a lot to do with it. The message being sent is to the brothers that are strapped. If it can happen to him, it will definitely happen to you 3-fold. Racism didn’t die with the election of Obama, it excelerated.

    How in the hell do you give Michael Vick jail time for what he did, and what Europeans have murdered and slain not only animals on their safaris, and Sarah Palin and others shooting wolves for “sport”, but also, the enslavement of billions of Africans??!! Human beings! These bastards cherish their dogs (their best friend while in the caves of Europe) more than they do hueman life! That is fact and historical! Why isn’t PETA speaking up about what Sarah Palin and others do on a regular basis, for sport????

    Look, I don’t condone what Michael Vick has done. It was cruel and unjust and he should have known better, but let’s be real people, had he been a caucasian, he would have gotten a slap on the wrist.

    In my opinion, Burress should get no jail time. Probation and community serive should be suffice. Look at his record! There is no history of law breaking. He doesn’t need to be stripped of his dignity, and humiliated. Suffice to say, it’s done that on his own. But jail time is crazy!

    This is BS!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bondsman22601/ bondsman22601

    It’s amazing to me that people keep throwing the term ‘unliciensed’ around. Licensing is a state requirement. This same gun if possessed in twenty plus other states in our Union would have been legal. Licensing is just a way for state governments to get into the business of the private population. If a person has a right to own property, just as a person has a right to own a hammer, watch, or car if he or she chooses, why would the state have to license it? I can believe how the populous in these antigun states have so readily accepted brainwashing. Now the facts are that Mr. Burress had a Florida permit. It is also a fact that New York does not recognize a permit from any other state and the city does not recognize permits from within there own state! Is this government bureaucracy or what! Anyone with two quarters to rub together for brain cells could deduce that Mr. Burress probably did not know how to handle this gun properly but should he go to jail for possessing a firearm across an imaginary border when the same gun would have been legal a few hundred miles down the highway….say in Virginia. It’s also so infuriates me that most of us Black people are all for more gun control laws when there were virtually no gun control laws before we were freed. Gun control laws are not about controlling guns at all; they are about controlling the rights of people. If people would read more credible science based literature, they will realize that gun control only fuels crime because criminals are more likely to be armed than the citizen (More Guns Less Crime John R. Lott). I think a of these people calling for Mr. Buress to go to jail are broke, disgusted, underachievers who think all successful rich people should be punished for having a good time and a good life ‘off the backs of the little man’. I have never been to New York and as long as it has a draconian mindset as it relates to the right to bear arms, I will not be going! New York can kiss my county ass!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/producer6tray/ producer6tray

    FOR SHOOTING HIMSELF, MORE KRACKER COMEDY!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rene1953/ rene1953

    Once again we have a big man with money acting a FOOL! You were blessed to get the position you have and once again you to stupid things. Showing out doesn’t make you a man, it makes you a fool.

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