Giants radio announcer Bob Papa said on his Sirius satellite radio show that Plaxico Burress is "deathly afraid" of going to jail and has rejected any plea deals that involve jail time.
“This is what I’ve been told and what I’ve heard,” Papa said. “They worked out something where they had it down to about a three-month jail term with actually only two months served and about 1,500 hours of community service. And I think his lawyers felt that they had a pretty good deal. He doesn’t want to go to jail at all. He shot down the deal. . . . He does not want to go to jail at all. So now coming up in another couple of weeks we’re gonna find out what’s gonna happen. But my guess is that the city of New York is not gonna back off any kind of jail time."
Nope. Burress is in serious trouble and if he thinks he's better off going to trial and taking his chances, he's wrong.
“Evidently, he’s gonna have to go to Riker’s Island,” Papa said. “He’s deathly afraid of going. . . . [I]f he would have just taken the deal when it originally was offered it would all be over with by now. But supposedly the community service hours and the jail time are not appealing to him. He does not understand that he is not in any kind of position of leverage. He has no leverage. He — not his representatives — he thinks he has leverage.”
I agree with Plaxico in that I am also terrified of going to prison. That's why I tend not to take guns to clubs. His fear of going to jail should have kicked in a long time ago and caused him not to act like a knucklehead and break the law.
