Report: Michael Vick considering a plea

ATLANTA, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick could negotiate a plea with prosecutors on federal dog-fighting charges by week's end, a report said.

Vick's attorneys will try to negotiate a plea before he faces additional charges, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday.

A spokesman for Vick Wednesday told CNN Vick had not made up his mind yet on a plea.

“Nothing has been decided yet,” said the spokesman, Collin Spencer III.

Two co-defendants are scheduled to enter guilty pleas in the case. A fourth has entered a guilty plea, and agreed to turn state's evidence.

Guilty plea hearings are set for Monday for Purnell Peace, 35, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Quanis Phillips, 28, of Atlanta.

"I would seriously talk to him about entering a plea to get home detention or a probationary sentence (if possible)," William Frick, a former prosecutor, told The New York Daily News.

Frick worked in the South Carolina Attorney General's office in 2004, which prosecuted a man who is serving a 40-year sentence prison sentence for dog-fighting.

The four co-defendants in Virginia are charged with using Vick's house in Smithfield to conduct dog-fighting activities. They were indicted on charges of travel in interstate commerce in aid of unlawful activities and to sponsor a dog in an animal fighting venture.