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Federal felon Michael Vick allowed to return to work in NFL

By Douglas A. Berman

Though it is pehaps too soon to call this latest news from the NFL evidence of a successful prisoner reentry, it is notable (and I think appropriate) that Michael Vick will be able to try to play professional football again now that he has completed his federal prison term.  Here are the basics: Michael Vick can make a conditional return to the National Football League, about two years after he was indefinitely suspended after pleading guilty to federal dogfighting charges. Vick can practice immediately and play in the preseason?s final two games, if he can find a team that will hire him, the NFL said in a news release.  Commissioner Roger Goodell will consider allowing Vick to play in regular season games by mid-October, the sixth week of the regular season...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 27, 2009 (boomark / email).