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Last Updated on Wednesday, 5 August 2009 12:50 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 5 August 2009 12:50
From StyleWeekly.com:
While fallen superstar Michael Vick works to reclaim a spot in the NFL, an unlikely voice was rooting from the sidelines. Delegate Joe Morrissey was sympathizing with Vick, who was jailed for his role in a dog-fighting ring.
“We are a forgiving country,” he wrote in a July 22 editorial supporting Vick’s NFL reinstatement. “We value redemption and believe that once an individual has paid his debt to society, he or she deserves a second chance.”
Morrissey should know. A former Richmond commonwealth’s attorney who serves as 74th District delegate, Morrissey was convicted July 7 on four counts of “allowing a dog to run at large,” a Class 4 misdemeanor punishable by fines up to $250.