Timeline of Michael Vick dogfighting case

Early 2001 — Vick, Quanis Phillips and Tony Taylor decide to start an illegal dogfighting operation. Later that year, Purnell Peace joins the venture.

June 29, 2002 — Vick pays about $34,000 for property in Surry County, Va.

2002-07 — Vick and his co-defendants establish "Bad Newz Kennels," host dogfights and participate in fights in other states.

April 25, 2007 — Police raid Vick's Virginia property and find several neglected pit bulls and evidence of dogfighting.

June 7, 2007 — Federal investigators raid Vick's property.

July 17, 2007 — Vick, Peace, Phillips and Taylor are charged by a federal grand jury in Richmond with conspiring to engage in competitive dogfighting, procuring and training pit bulls for fighting, and conducting the enterprise across state lines.

July 26, 2007 — Vick and his co-defendants plead not guilty to the charges.

July 30, 2007 — Taylor changes his plea to guilty and agrees to cooperate with the prosecution of Vick and the other two men.

Aug. 17, 2007 — Peace and Phillips plead guilty and implicate Vick in bankrolling gambling on dogfights. One says the quarterback helped drown or hang dogs that didn't do well.

Aug. 23, 2007 — Vick signs plea agreement and statement of facts admitting to conspiracy in a dogfighting ring and helping kill pit bulls. He denies betting on the fights, only bankrolling them.

Aug. 24, 2007 — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suspends Vick indefinitely without pay from the NFL.

Aug. 27, 2007 — Vick pleads guilty to dogfighting conspiracy before U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson. At a news conference, Vick apologizes for "using bad judgment and making bad decisions. I offer my deepest apologies to everyone. And I will redeem myself. I have to."

Nov. 20, 2007 — Vick surrenders to U.S. marshals and begins serving his sentence in a Virginia jail three weeks before his official sentencing.

Dec. 10, 2007 — Vick is sentenced to 23 months in federal prison.

Jan. 7, 2008 — Vick leaves Virginia to enter a drug treatment program at a Leavenworth, Kan., minimum security facility.

July 8, 2008 — Vick files for bankruptcy protection.

Nov. 25, 2008 — Vick appears in a Virginia courtroom to plead guilty to a state dogfighting charge and receives a three-year suspended sentence.

April 3, 2009 — Vick testifies in federal bankruptcy court that he has become a changed man and will do all the right things upon his release from prison, including repaying his creditors by resuming his professional football career.

April 21, 2009 — Goodell says Vick will have to show genuine remorse to get a chance at resuming his career in the NFL.

May 20, 2009 — Vick is released from the Leavenworth, Kan., prison to begin two months of home confinement at his Hampton, Va., home.

July 20, 2009 — Vick is released from federal custody after serving his dogfighting term.

July 27, 2009 — Vick is conditionally reinstated by Goodell, who says he will consider Vick for full reinstatement by mid-October.