{"id":16480,"date":"2009-09-22T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playingfieldpromotions.com\/blog\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2009-09-22T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T18:00:12","slug":"plaxico-burress-begins-two-year-sentence-on-weapons-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsspeakers360.com\/blog\/plaxico-burress-begins-two-year-sentence-on-weapons-charge","title":{"rendered":"Plaxico Burress Begins Two Year Sentence On Weapons Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plaxico Burress,\u00a0 former New York Giants wide receiver,\u00a0 was taken to jail on Tuesday to begin serving a two-year sentence for gun possession, after accidentally shooting himself at a nightclub last year.<\/p>\n<p>Burress&#8217; football career started taking off after he caught the winning touchdown in the Giants&#8217; Super Bowl win in February 2008.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Giants and the NFL suspended him after he pleaded guilty to a gun possession charge.<\/p>\n<p>Burress accidentally shot himself in the thigh with his own handgun last November while at a New York City nightclub. He did not have a license to carry a gun in New York.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Burress tearfully told his family goodbye as he was taken away to serve his sentence.<\/p>\n<div id=\"TixyyLink\" style=\"border: medium none; overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">The New York Giants told <a title=\"TMZ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2009\/09\/22\/ny-giants-plaxico-situation-is-tragic\/\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ<\/a>, &#8220;<em>This has been a tragic, sad, disappointing situation from the beginning. Our concern has always been for Plax&#8217;s welfare, and for his family, and that continues to be our overriding feeling<\/em>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nBurress&#8217;s <a title=\"find a lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.locatealawyer.com\" target=\"_blank\">lawyer<\/a>, Benjamin Brafton said, &#8220;This is a very real tragic case in many, many ways.&#8221; He called Burress &#8220;a fundamentally decent man.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.locatealawyer.com\/blog\/502\/plaxico-burress-sentenced-to-two-years-for-gun-possession\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaxico Burress,\u00a0 former New York Giants wide receiver,\u00a0 was taken to jail on Tuesday to begin serving a two-year sentence for gun possession, after accidentally shooting himself at a nightclub last year. Burress&#8217; football career started taking off after he caught the winning touchdown in the Giants&#8217; Super Bowl win in February 2008. 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