As ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli reported earlier this afternoon, Vick has retained prominent trial attorney Billy Martin, of the Washington, D.C.-based firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, to represent him in a potential trial stemming from indictments charging the NFL star in an alleged dog-fighting ring.
Martin is a former federal prosecutor and senior official at the Department of Justice and has been in private practice for 1990.
Vick will hardly be the first high-profile client Martin has represented. Other high-profile professional athlete clients have included former NBA players Jayson Williams and Rod Strickland, current NBA stars Allen Iverson and Juwan Howard and boxer Riddick Bowe. Martin also represented Monica Lewinsky and her mother, along with the parents of the late congressional intern Chandra Levy and Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell (in another federal prosecution). ...
this was clipped forn Bob Harris's Flash Updates by the way...
Now does anyone know of this guy? Is he in with the guys who will prosecute Vick and will this help Vick get off or a very good plea deal?
Martin is a former federal prosecutor and senior official at the Department of Justice and has been in private practice for 1990.
Vick will hardly be the first high-profile client Martin has represented. Other high-profile professional athlete clients have included former NBA players Jayson Williams and Rod Strickland, current NBA stars Allen Iverson and Juwan Howard and boxer Riddick Bowe. Martin also represented Monica Lewinsky and her mother, along with the parents of the late congressional intern Chandra Levy and Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell (in another federal prosecution). ...
this was clipped forn Bob Harris's Flash Updates by the way...
Now does anyone know of this guy? Is he in with the guys who will prosecute Vick and will this help Vick get off or a very good plea deal?