Vick Co-Defendant Says QB Killed Dogs

(CBS/AP)  Two of Michael Vick's alleged cohorts in a dogfighting enterprise entered guilty pleas Friday, one of whom said the star NFL quarterback participated in the execution of dogs.

The guilty pleas leaves the Atlanta Falcons quarterback on his own to cut a deal or face trial on federal charges.

Purnell Peace, 35, of Virginia Beach and Quanis Phillips, 28, of Atlanta entered plea agreements and joined another defendant who previously changed his plea to guilty. The agreements require the three to cooperate in the government's case against Vick.

A statement signed by Peace as part of his plea agreement said Vick participated in the execution of about eight dogs, some by drowning and hanging.

"Phillips agrees and stipulates that these dogs all died as a result of the collective efforts of Peace, Phillips and Vick," the statement said.

With his NFL career in jeopardy and a superseding indictment adding more charges in the works, Vick and his lawyers have been talking with federal prosecutors about a possible plea agreement.

The court docket did not list any appearance for Vick. One of his lawyers, Lawrence Woodward, attended Friday's hearings and declined to answer questions as he left the courthouse.

Sentencing for the two alleged cohorts was scheduled for Nov. 30. Vick has been barred from training camp by the NFL and is to go on trial Nov. 26.

Peace and Phillips were charged with conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce in aid of unlawful activities and conspiring to sponsor a dog in an animal fighting venture. Tony Taylor of Hampton pleaded guilty last month and will be sentenced Dec. 14. Vick faces the same charges.

"Did you conspire with these folks to sponsor a dogfighting venture?" U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson asked Peace.

He replied, "Yes, sir."

The offenses are punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, but the exact sentence will be based largely on federal sentencing guidelines. Hudson told Peace and Phillips that certain elements of their offenses will increase their sentencing ranges.

"There are aggravating circumstances in this case, there's no doubt about it," he told Phillips.

While Peace was freed, Hudson found that Phillips violated terms of his release by failing a drug test and ordered him jailed. Phillips also is on probation for a drug conviction in Atlanta, and the guilty plea could mean more jail time in that case, Hudson said.

Any outcome that ties Vick to betting on the dogfights could trigger a lifetime ban from the NFL under the league's personal conduct policy.

The 27-year-old quarterback was linked to betting by a statement signed by Taylor, who pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the government, and the July 17 indictment.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell withheld further action while the NFL conducts its own investigation. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league had no comment on the latest pleas.

About 30 animal-rights activists gathered outside the courtroom. Afterward, as police officers cleared the scene, protesters continued waving large pictures of a mutilated dog.

"This is one dogfighting ring that's been annihilated," said John Goodwin, a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States.

The four defendants all initially pleaded not guilty, and Vick issued a statement saying he looked forward to clearing his name.

A statement of facts signed by Taylor as part of his plea agreement placed Vick at the scene of several dogfights and linked him to betting. Taylor said Vick financed virtually all the "Bad Newz Kennels" operation on Vick's property in Surry County.

The case began with a search in April that turned up dozens of pit bulls and an assortment of dogfighting paraphernalia at the property, a few miles from Vick's hometown of Newport News. According to the indictment, dogs that lost fights or fared poorly in test fights were sometimes executed by hanging, electrocution or other means.

[zadual]

What an asinine comment,,, disposing of unwanted animals. He didn''t dispose of unwanted animals. He is the one who "damaged" these dogs by putting (or allowed to be put) in the enclosed ring with other dogs he "trained" to be ripped to shreds for their own personal enjoyment and profit. Oh ok, excuse me I was wrong,,,yes they were then at the end of the "fight" unwanted because he didn''t profit from them. He is scum of the highest degree, and I cant wait till he loses everything. I wonder how many kids he has with how many different different women? What a daddy figure he must be.

[nggr]

hehaw

[kailumego1]

Nggr, are you any relation to Ted Bundy, your ramblings sound awful familiar to his...

Nggr just love to see a "criminal mastermind" at work, you''ve summarized it brilliantly, I am truly enamored of you honesty, most whites would have been too ashamed to speak so %u201Cboastfully%u201D considering past atrocities, i.e. slaughtering millions of Native Americans, slavery, Leopold II, Hitler, Stalin, etc. to even speak amorously of the barbarianism at the hands of whites, and as you have eloquently praised whites for their primordial wits and clever manipulativeness with regards of their sadistic hegemonic savagism of other civilizations.

[kailumego1]

But, you didn%u2019t pause, notwithstanding, you simply laid the cards on the table, so I presume your admiration clearly extends to the clever and brilliant %u201Ccraftiness%u201D of leaders such as, Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin, as well as Leopold II for their ruthless and relentless brilliance through cleverly manipulating their citizenry into buying their elaborate hoax, which by the way says a lot about their mental ineptness.

Needless to say, your posthumous praises are extended to those [Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Eisenhower, etc] whom yielded this %u201Dsupreme-artfulness-craftiness and dubiousness%u201D conquering lesser apathetic individuals using psychological warfare, interesting though, according to %u201Cwhite%u201D psychiatrists/psychologists, interpreting the DSM-IV, this behavior would have been considered anti-social/sociopath/psychotic/paranoid/narcissistic/etc%u2026

So what is germane according to your twisted analogy, weighing of course, moral vs. amoral behavior, it is better to be amorally twisted, psychologically disturbed, and ethnically flawed than to be morally at peace.

[nggr]

ahh, but when the consequences are made by the criminals....
there is the beauty

[agnim]

"Posted by nggr at 01:07 PM : Aug 18, 2007"

LOL
You are too fcuked up, must be born of a Mafia family, right; for it is only such white, deluded and criminal lineage that so turns ''right'' and ''wrong'' on their heads? "Wrong" becomes right and "right" becomes wrong.

Unfortunately for such a diabolical mindset, the Laws of Nature do not switch CONSEQUENCES for ''rights'' and ''wrongs''.

[nggr]

you%u2019re right white folks are criminally creative%u2026
Posted by kailumego1 at 12:51 PM : Aug 18, 2007

you fail to comprehend the beauty. not "criminally creative" criminally inspired. like an artist.
wonderful acts of law breaking that progress the society into the future.
blacks are lack luster in their efforts, its not that they dont try, they just aren''t smart enough to grasp the importance and complexity of commiting a crime. they''re a cheap immitaion of white criminals, who have progressed the history of the world with their wonderfully inspired criminal activities.

[kailumego1]

Angry, nah, you''re too comical to break a sweat...

Nggr, so according to your analogy of "super-criminal-mastermind" white folks criminal escapades far weigh black primal criminal instincts, because blacks lack the ability to think abstractly, interesting, so here''s the white folks superior-criminal-mastermind logic: embezzlement, money laundering, corporate espionage, assassinations, domestic and foreign terrorism, drug smuggling, illegal gambling, product tampering, conspiracy, treason, insider trading, bankruptcy fraud, insurance fraud/scams, operating %u201Csweat shops%u201D, amoral experimentations on unsuspecting/uninformed individuals, i.e. Hepatitis B on the homose[x]ual population, experimental cancer vaccine, and polio vaccine on Africans, syphilis experiment on African American males %u201CTuskegee Experiment%u201D

[kailumego1]

Part II
environmental degradation and the unlawful/amoral dumping of toxic waste into the ground water, along with environmental racism [the deliberate dumping of toxic waste in poor disenfranchised neighborhoods], pedophilia, child pornography, serial murder, mass murder, opportunistic murder, murder/decapitation of spouse, running over spouse with Mercedes, murdering pregnant spouse along with child, drowning children then blaming a black man, poisoning neighbors with Coca Cola spiked with selenium, because they played loud music, developing incestuous relationship with son then going on a murderous killing spree, stalking, necrophilia, etc, etc, etc.

After considering all the criminal mastermind exploits of whites, I%u2019m truly jealous, you%u2019re right white folks are criminally creative%u2026

[nggr]

yeah, but its mostly the blacks that didn''t move to liberia that are turning america into a big ghetto.
they cant help it because they dont know better.
they operate on primitive primal instincts.
but we can help raise awarness to them that they shouldn''t give in to they''re anumalistic urges and do what the white man says.
they would ne netter off and they know it.