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Plaxico Hit With 2 Years

Former New York Giant will go to prison for 2008 illegal handgun incident

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 22, 2009 10:32 AM CDT

(Newser) – Former New York Giant Plaxico Burress was sentenced today to two years in prison for possessing an unlicensed gun—the gun with which he accidentally shot himself in the leg at a New York nightclub in 2008, TMZ reports. The footballer, joined by his wife,...   Read full story »

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