Plaxico Burress' would be facing less severe punishment in Texas.
Plaxico Burress, New York Giant wide receiver, is unlucky that his crime did not occur in Texas. While possessing a handgun at a place that sells alcohol is a felony in Texas his range of punishment would be from two to ten years in prison as opposed to the three and one half to fifteen years he is facing in the state of New York. Moreover, the bond is outrageously high at $100,000. In Harris County, Texas his bond would have been set at $10,000. Granted money is not an issue right now for him, but that is a difference of paying a bonding company $1,000 in Texas and paying one in New York $10,000.
