One-time Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress was bedevilled to two years in bastille Tuesday for actionable New York's acrimonious gun laws and was anon taken into aegis afterward his hearing.
Burress agreed to the appeal accord endure ages and pleaded accusable to a bottom accoutrements charge. The accuse stemmed from an adventure backward endure fall, in which Burress accidentally attempt himself in the thigh at a Manhattan nightclub.
He is accepted to serve about 20 months with acclaim for acceptable behavior, followed by two years of probation.
Burress accustomed at the courthouse with his wife and son, whom he agitated in his arms, at 9:41 a.m. Afore the sentencing began, Burress asked for and was accepted permission by the adjudicator to say one endure goodbye to his family, built-in in the fifth row of the courthouse.
In court, Burress apologized to his ancestors and admirers and thanked them for their support. "We will all get through this," he said.
He was again taken into custody.
Burress will be taken to the Rikers Island bastille in New York, and again transferred to the Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill afore getting beatific to one of New York State's 29 medium-security prisons to serve out his sentence.
Afterwards, his aegis attorney, Benjamin Brafman, alleged the case "terribly said and actual tragic."
"This has been a actual affecting acquaintance for him," Brafman said. "He's sad about what he's done to his life, his career, and added chiefly to his family. He's a fundamentally acceptable man who has acclimated bad acumen and is traveling to pay a very, actual astringent penalty."
The case went to a admirable board afterwards months of negotiations amid prosecutors and Burress' aegis advocate bankrupt down, allegedly because Manhattan District Advocate Robert Morgenthau insisted that the above New York Giants advanced receiver serve at atomic two years in bastille for actionable the city's austere gun laws.
On July 29, Burress took the attenuate and chancy footfall of testifying afore the admirable jury, acquisitive to argue the console that the gun was not acclimated in the agency of a abomination and that he was the abandoned victim. But canicule later, Burress was accusable on two counts of bent control of a weapon and one calculation of adventuresome endangerment. He faced a minimum book of 3? years if bedevilled at trial.
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