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Originally Posted by angryssg
Vick isnt going anywhere. He has too many high priced lawyers with lack of evidence on their side. Remember you can only be convicted if the evidence is concrete. In other words the FEDS have no case.
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You can only be convicted if the jury votes to convict you. People are found guilty on flimsy evidence every day. Of course, the difference here is that Vick can retain strong legal council and the government will have to have strong evidence against him in order to indict, which is the way it should always be , but isn't.
Also, any jury in that part of Virginia is likely to have at least one person who will vote to acquit Vick no matter what - because of football or race or a combination of things. If the government tried to bring a case against Vick it would have to be airtight. But, he is probably only actually guilty of attending the fights and gambling on them. His cousin is the one who will take the fall for the actual fighting which is the case that the government would like to make even though Micheal Vick is more famous. If they try to bring the dog fighting charges against Micheal Vick, they will be giving a reluctant jury an easy way out - "He just owned the house, He didn't own the dogs, etc". These are the kinds of considerations they are making. Prosecutors hate to lose and they really hate to lose when there are cameras around.