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It's replay time for Plaxico Burress - who has applied again for work release.
The former Super Bowl hero, who is nine months into a two-year sentence on gun charges, originally applied in November and was shot down. He appealed and lost.
He resubmitted his application Friday - the earliest date allowed under the rules of work release, prison officials said.
No decision will be made for several weeks.
The ex-Giant's lawyer, Peter Frankel, said six anti-violence groups have written letters begging that Burress be released - so he can work for them.
"There are a number of very prominent anti-gun and anti-violence organizations who have written letters on his behalf and who are supporting his release," Frankel said.
The letters will be added to the application next week.
The disgrace 32-year-old football star, whose second child was born after he was sent to prison, appealed the January application slap down - but also lost the appeal.
"He deserves a chance. A lot of people think he deserves a chance," said a source close to the defense.
The insider noted that "the hierarchy who was here before are all gone," referring to the Manhattan District Attorney's office.
Burress was prosecuted under former Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau, and one of his top deputies wrote a blistering letter opposing Burress' first work-release request.
The letter said state officials shouldn't have "sympathy for a man who fell so far, so fast."
Manhattan's new DA, Cyrus Vance, had no immediate reaction to Burress' bid for freedom, but a law enforcement source said the nerw regime is expected to oppose it.
Burress was carrying an unlicensed gun in the Latin Quarter club in November 2008 when he shot himself in the right thigh.
He checked into the hospital under an assumed name, and cops didn't learn about the shooting for several hours.
Source: nydailynews.com
The former Super Bowl hero, who is nine months into a two-year sentence on gun charges, originally applied in November and was shot down. He appealed and lost.
He resubmitted his application Friday - the earliest date allowed under the rules of work release, prison officials said.
No decision will be made for several weeks.
The ex-Giant's lawyer, Peter Frankel, said six anti-violence groups have written letters begging that Burress be released - so he can work for them.
"There are a number of very prominent anti-gun and anti-violence organizations who have written letters on his behalf and who are supporting his release," Frankel said.
The letters will be added to the application next week.
The disgrace 32-year-old football star, whose second child was born after he was sent to prison, appealed the January application slap down - but also lost the appeal.
"He deserves a chance. A lot of people think he deserves a chance," said a source close to the defense.
The insider noted that "the hierarchy who was here before are all gone," referring to the Manhattan District Attorney's office.
Burress was prosecuted under former Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau, and one of his top deputies wrote a blistering letter opposing Burress' first work-release request.
The letter said state officials shouldn't have "sympathy for a man who fell so far, so fast."
Manhattan's new DA, Cyrus Vance, had no immediate reaction to Burress' bid for freedom, but a law enforcement source said the nerw regime is expected to oppose it.
Burress was carrying an unlicensed gun in the Latin Quarter club in November 2008 when he shot himself in the right thigh.
He checked into the hospital under an assumed name, and cops didn't learn about the shooting for several hours.
Source: nydailynews.com