NEW : Burress was released 2008 35 seconds . Former NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress was released from a New York prison Monday after serving 20 months on a weapons charge stemming from a shooting incident at a nightclub . Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg while at a New Jersey nightclub . He was not licensed to carry a pistol in Manhattan or New York , where he lived . Burress pleaded guilty to a weapons charge .
NEW : Burress was released 2008 35 seconds . Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg while at a New Jersey nightclub . He was not licensed to carry a pistol in Manhattan or New York , where he lived . Burress pleaded guilty to a weapons charge .