News: A Real Thinker

I'm currently trying to come to grips with our mock trial for the National Trial Competition - it's based on the Michael Vick dogfighting case. First impression: it seems like an uphill battle for the defense (in real life, Vick plead guilty after some of his codefendants started to turn on him).

The guy defending another NFL player, Plaxico Burress, on gun possession charges looks like he's going to have an even tougher time in his case:



It must be tough defending this charge when your client literally has a gunshot wound in his thigh. Of course, the bigger lesson here is that the only time NY's draconian gun laws actually work is after the firearm is discharged, not before. If, say, Burress shot a man in self-defense that night, I wonder how he'd fare in the court of public opinion?...