State Should Drop the Charges against Michael Vick Says Political Analyst
Dec 11, 2007 -- /prbuzz/ --The Hutchinson Political Report
State Should Drop the Charges against Michael Vick Says Political Analyst
December 10, 2007
for Immediate Release
Contact: Earl Ofari Hutchinson
323-296-6331
State Should Drop the Charges against Michael Vick Says Political Analyst
Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson calls for Virginia's Surrey County Commonwealth Attorney Gerald Poindexter to do the right legal and personal thing and drop the state prosecution of Michael Vick. The trial is currently scheduled for April 2. This was a federal case from day one. The evidence of conspiracy and trafficking in dog fighters across state lines was overwhelming. Professional dog fighting almost always involves interstate transit of the dogs to the fighting matches and events.
There's also the troubling fact that while state prosecutors talk a good game about cracking down on the dog fighting top cats, they are still notoriously lax in prosecuting, let alone tossing the book at many of them. The stiff federal sentence dumped on Vick amply sent the message that a rich, famous, sports glitz figure won't be treated any differently than the average Joe that breaks the law.
Hutchinson says, "There's no compelling interest or reason to pile on another prosecution of Vick. Fairness and common legal sense must prevail. Virginia should drop charges against Vick, and drop them now."