{"id":297,"date":"2009-09-24T02:37:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T09:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2009-09-24T02:37:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T09:37:24","slug":"plaxico-burress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/24\/plaxico-burress\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaxico Burress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even <a href=\"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/constitution\/amendment-02\/index.html\">Second Amendment<\/a> haters must be scratching their heads at this one.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-nfl-report23-2009sep23,0,4132191.story\">Two years<\/a> in prison for <a href=\"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/new-york\/penal\/PEN0265.03_265.03.html\">second degree criminal possession of a weapon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/new-york\/penal\/PEN0120.20_120.20.html\">second degree reckless endangerment<\/a>.  Wow!  Is his offense of the same magnitude as that committed by Michael Vick?  No.  Regardless of the law, on a basic fairness level, how do you send a man to jail for two years for accidentally shooting himself with a concealed weapon, illegal or otherwise?  Sure, if he shot someone else, I would understand.  But he shot himself!!  Is New York any safer with Plaxico Burress off the streets for two years?  I doubt it.  What a waste of taxpayer money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even Second Amendment haters must be scratching their heads at this one. Two years in prison for second degree criminal possession of a weapon and second degree reckless endangerment. Wow! Is his offense of the same magnitude as that committed by Michael Vick? No. Regardless of the law, on a basic fairness level, how do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[138],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}