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A fuming Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday he wants Burress prosecuted "to the fullest extent of the law" for accidentally shooting himself in his leg with an illegal handgun. The mayor also called on prosecutors to throw the book at officials of the Giants and New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell for reportedly not alerting police about the shooting immediately, as required by law.
Reported by the New York Daily News
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"It's pretty hard to argue the guy didn't have a gun and that it wasn't loaded," said Bloomberg, lashing out at the Super Bowl receiver. "You've got bullet holes in and out to show that it was there." Bloomberg, who has been leading a national crusade against illegal guns, noted that under New York law if you are convicted of carrying a loaded illegal handgun "you go automatically to three-and-a-half years in the slammer." The mandatory sentencing would apply if Burress is convicted as charged, but not necessarily if he is offered a plea bargain. ... Also: The mayor said the police only found out about the shooting incident from a TV report. "The hospital didn't call and the Giants didn't call," he said. "And the Giants should have picked up the phone right away as good corporate citizens. I don't care whether (there is) the legal responsibility for them to do it." Bottom line? The mayor is going to make it difficult for this to just "go away."
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