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Michael Vick Gets 23 Months from Dog-Owning Judge

Michael Vick middle finger Abovethelaw Above the Law blog.jpgYes, we are aware that Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months imprisonment, for his involvement in a dogfighting conspiracy. We took note of the sentencing in Morning Docket.

We really aren’t that into sports, and we weren’t planning on saying much about the Vick sentencing. But it appears that some of you would like to talk about it, so here’s a post for doing so.

Here are articles from the AP and the New York Times (which helpfully notes that Judge Judge Henry E. Hudson is a dog owner — should he have recused?). A reader poll appears at the end of this post.

Meanwhile, in other federal sentencing news, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down two sentencing decisions today, and disgraced media mogul Conrad Black was sentenced to six and a half years in prison.

These developments are a bit too substantive for the pages of ATL. But you can read more about them over at Professor Doug Berman’s Sentencing Law & Policy, SCOTUSblog, and the WSJ Law Blog.

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