Vick gets 23 months

[SirKodiak]

Well now....if he serves his time then we should all help in the re-hab process by forgiving him and getting him a cat!

Like this one!

[RickD]

Lol....

[Arctic Blast]

I don't disagree a team may give him a shot at a quarterback JOB. What I was (very poorly) trying to say is that nobody is going to give him starting quarterback MONEY until he proves he might actually be worth it. (and considering his financial position, he's frankly going to have to take any offer that might come along).

[JayC]

But would it be worth reading without any of his criminal activities being iincluded? Remember that you cannot profit from crime, after commiting a crime. That would prevent him from telling his story in regard to the whole doggie issue I'd think.

Really it's not that simple. First, those "Son of Sam" laws are enacted at the state level, so the details vary from state to state, and some don't have any such laws in place. Some of those were passed were struck down by the US Supreme Court a few years ago, including New York's, which was the first passed in the country.

So while I don't know the details of specifically which law might cover Vick's case, but in New York the current law (replacing the one struck down) requires notification to be made to a crime victim when a convicted perpetrator receives pretty much any payment of $10,000 or more. It's then up to the victim (in most cases; there are some circumstances I believe in which the state itself can get involved) to pursue the matter and recover that money under the terms of the "Son of Sam" law. So, in a case like Vicks... who's the victim?

Some of the original laws hinged on whether the source of the income (book, movie, whatever) relied primarily on a description of the crime. So if a felon were, for example, to write a book about his life as a whole but mention the crime that made him "famous" in passing, the law might not apply. As far as I know, though, very few of these situations ever got into court to test those kinds of things, and again many of those laws were tossed out by the Supreme Court and may or may not have been updated since then.

[ohms_law]

Yea, OK. That's what I thought... but like I said, I didn't really know.