Ex-NFL player Burress enters prison

Above NFL advanced receiver Plaxico Burress surrendered to authorities Tuesday to serve a two-year bastille book on a weapons charge, the Manhattan Commune Attorney's appointment said.

Burress was aswell bedevilled to two years of post-release administration with permission to biking for business, according to commune advocate backer Tracy Golden.

Burress, 32, pleaded accusable in August to a weapons allegation stemming from a cutting adventure at a bistro endure year. He pleaded accusable to the bottom allegation of attempted bent control of a weapon and agreed to serve two years beneath a appeal agreement.

The above New York Giants advanced receiver accidentally attempt himself in the leg with a .40-caliber semi-automatic pistol he was accustomed in his waistband. The adventure occurred November 29, 2008, in the VIP breadth of the Latin Quarter bistro in Manhattan.

A teammate, linebacker Antonio Pierce, collection him to a hospital and abiding to accept the pistol delivered to Burress' New Jersey home, according to a account from the commune attorney's appointment August 3.

The commune advocate aswell approved accuse adjoin Pierce, but the admirable board did not arraign him.

Burress was not accountant to backpack a pistol in either New York or New Jersey.

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No one, including advisers of the New York Presbyterian Hospital and the NFL, alleged the badge to address the gunshot wound, as appropriate by law. One hospital artisan was abeyant afterwards the incident.

Burress became a hero to New York Giants admirers in the 2008 Super Bowl if he bent the game-winning touchdown canyon from quarterback Eli Manning with 35 abnormal actual in the game.

The afterward season, Burress' career with the Giants was bedridden by a alternation of incidents. He was abeyant by the aggregation in aboriginal October for missing a practice, and afterwards that ages was fined $45,000 by the NFL afterwards arguing with a adjudicator and throwing a football into the stands.

After the gunshot incident, Burress was abeyant from the Giants. The aggregation appear him in April.