[sportscurmudgeon]

Schneed:

The indictment cited 4 "cooperating witnesses".

This plea agreement is with one of the co-defendants who went to Richmond for arraignment last week at the same time Michael Vick did. That means there are now 5 "cooperating witnesses".

The outcome of a trial in a Federal or a State court is never knowable in advance; there needs to be only one juror who holds out for a verdict opposite to the othe eleven jurors and you get a mistrial (hung jury). In the movies, that one juror can turn everyone else around (see "Twelve Angry Men"); in real life, they just move on and try the case again.

But the "court of public opinion" does not operate by the same rules as do the courts in the legal system - - and the verdict from that court of public opinion is already in.