Former NY Giants footballer Plaxico Burress plead guilty to illegally possessing a weapon Thursday morning (Aug 20). 32-year-old Burress is free on bail and will officially be sentenced on September 22nd, where he faces a two-year prison sentence, according to a spokeswoman for the District Attorney’s office. Upon release from prison, Burress will spend two years on house arrest.

The former NY Giants wide receiver accidentally shot himself in the leg at a Manhattan nightclub on November 29th 2008 with a pistol he was carrying in the waistband of his jeans. Burress wasn’t licensed to carry a pistol in neither New York nor New Jersey, where his teammate, linebacker Antonio Pierce, arranged to have the pistol delivered after driving Burress to the hospital immediately following the incident. The district attorney wanted to charge Pierce as well, but the grand jury didn’t indict him on any charges. No one, not even employees of the hospital Burress was admitted to, or anyone in the NFL, called the police to report the gunshot wound or the incident, which was required by law. In fact, one of the hospital works was suspended following the incident.

Immediately following the shooting incident, the Giants suspended Burress and released him in April of 2009.

MARY J. BLIGE & JAY-Z SUED OVER HIT SONG » R&B soul singer Mary J. Blige and long-time rapper friend Jay-Z are being sued over Mary J’s hit single, “Enough Cryin’” According to the federal lawsuit, which involves allegations of song theft, Jermaine Jumpp and MIchael C. Adams claim they dropped off a CD at Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins’ office, and that CD had a song on it caleld “On My Grind.”

Despite not hearing back from the megaproducer, they say the track appeared on Mary J. Blige’s album, The Breakthrough, as a song titled “Enough Cryin’.” The song, which was produced by Darkchild, later went on to become a single and had a fairly successful run on the Billboard charts. Adams and Jumpp claim MJB’s song sounds awfully familiar to their “On My Grind” song.

No amount in damages has been specified, but the duo is likely to request something to the tune of millions of dollars since the album went multi-platinum. Jay-Z wasn’t featured on the track vocally, but he received album credit as the co-writer of the song. No trial date has been announced yet.
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