Ookie is going away

August 20th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanE

It’s official: Mr. Vick is heading to prison. I’m not going to spend too much time analyzing legal proceedings, because I’m pretty sure that you can get all of that somewhere else, and that you wouldn’t even look here to begin with. (This is a total guess, but an educated one.)

So, instead, I’ll ask a question: Is Michael Vick going to face local charges too? According to J-Red from East Coast Bias, who is well-connected with the case and with Prosecutor Poindexter (never was a prosecutor more appropriately named), Poindexter plans to prosecute of his own accord.

Whatever his reasoning — whether it’s the publicity that will come for piling on the dog-murderer, or just a serious dedication to the legal code — any further prosecution of Vick seems a bit redundant, yeah? If Vick is really getting 18-36 months like CNN says, than is another year going to drive home any more of a message? It’s been an ugly incident for the league, for Atlanta, for America … do we need to perpetuate it with another indictment and plea negotiation? Let Vick do his time, let PETA tip their champagne glasses, and let Leonard Little go back to thanking his lucky stars every day that he didn’t run over a dog when he was drunk behind the wheel. It’s time for all of us to move on.