His judge loves dogs and hates gambling....
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"Late one evening in Arlington County, Va., nearly 25 years ago, a young man realized after several drinks that it was time for some Fritos. He found some in a convenience store, and, shopping while impaired, opened them and walked out of the store and into the criminal justice system.
He first encountered a group of police officers, and he tried to keep walking. When they moved in and surrounded him, he took a wild swing. As unsteady as he was, he somehow managed to hit one officer, leaving a small cut above his eye. It was a bad mistake. When it was over, he found himself in jail, bruised and battered.
Even worse, he next encountered Henry E. Hudson, a prosecutor who would decide what to do with the young man. After reviewing the reports, Hudson made his decision. The charge would be malicious wounding, a felony defined in Virginia law as an assault with intent to maim, disfigure or kill. If convicted, the young man faced an automatic minimum of five years in prison. "
"It's likely to be a bit different when Judge Hudson examines Vick and his abuse of his pit bulls. Hudson's attitude on dogs is different from the judge who ruled against Hudson as a prosecutor. When he and his wife, Tara, after years of scraping by on limited income, finally found themselves enjoying a level of prosperity, they bought a new house. And then, with their life "stable, secure, and fairly predictable," they invested in a West Highland terrier puppy.
If Hudson's love of dogs offers little consolation to Vick, his attitude on gambling might offer even less. In his tenure as a U.S. Attorney, Hudson initiated a massive investigation of a bingo operation. That's right, bingo. Even Hudson acknowledges it was "not standard stuff for federal prosecutors," but he invested time and manpower trying to trace the bingo profits from Virginia to offshore banks or to corrupt politicians. He started in Virginia and then moved the probe into the Bahamas. Despite nearly three weeks of work in the Bahamas, Hudson and his team of IRS agents were unable to penetrate a banking system designed to shield its customers. He finally shut down the probe without any charges.
If Hudson would invest significant time and effort on a bingo investigation, what will he think of Vick's bets on dogfighting that include the loss of $23,000 on a single afternoon?
Testing positive for drugs may be more of a problem for Vick than Hudson's love of dogs or his hard line on gambling. As a prosecutor, Hudson became personally involved in drug investigations, joining agents in surveillances that lasted through the night, a highly unusual step for a prosecutor. In his book, he explains: "Drug enforcement is challenging, but it's also dirty and dangerous. I loved it."
When it comes to punishment, Hudson leaves no doubt in his book about the kind of penalty that makes sense to him. He likes the way they punish criminals in the Bahamas: "They believed in short periods of intense incarceration with hard labor 16 hours a day, six days a week. They also used caning or whipping for any offense involving violence or injury to the victim. The recidivism rate? Less than five percent. Now that's effective justice." "
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