Nearly a month after he was alleged to have slapped around his girlfriend following a night of drinking and carousing in a South Florida clothing-optional establishment in the wee hours of the morning, and being hit with a disturbing domestic battery charge, former Bucs great Warren Sapp was nowhere to be found in a Miami-Dade County court today to stand in front of a judge and face charges.

Rather, Sapp sicked his lawyer into court to obtain a two-week continuance in what some suggest is an effort to cop a plea, so reports SportsByBrooks.com.

Instead, Sapp’s lawyer Christopher Lyons requested and was granted a two week continuance. The move by Sapp’s attorney may be the first step in a plea deal, depending on who the Dade County District Attorney assigned to the case.

The March 17 appearance will likely bring a plea bargain or Sapp’s actual plea.

Slightly over a day after he was jailed and  released, Gary Nelson of WFOR-TV in Miami suggested that Sapp was sprung from his cage in the Miami-Dade County jail because of his celebrity status, having been a local hero for the Hurrigangstas.

At the Sunday morning hearing, Sapp’s attorney Christopher Lyons asked Judge Yvonne Colodny if she could “expedite” his release from jail, after he posted his $1,500 bail. Colodny turned to corrections officials and said, “Okay, Corrections, as a courtesy, if you can assist us, if you can do anything to expedite the bond, the defendant’s friends and family would greatly appreciate it.”

In the recording of the hearing, a corrections official can be heard to say, “Yes, Judge.”

The “courtesy” extended to Sapp is not extended to everyone. It typically takes hours, sometimes most of the day, for defendants in the morning bond court session to be processed out of the jail.

If that isn’t revolting enough, Sapp is alleged to have sent an alarming two-word text to the victim of his alleged physical abuse just moments after the incident was said to have occured, “You whore.”

Sapp has yet to be seen at his job on the NFL Network since he was pinched.