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Nevada Supreme Court To Consider Releasing O.J. Simpson

HuffPo.com:

A trio of Nevada Supreme Court justices focused Monday on whether O.J. Simpson and a former golfing buddy received a fair trial in a gunpoint hotel room heist and whether the case was so unique that the two men should be freed from prison while their appeals are considered.

"This is post-conviction. That's what concerns me," Justice Michael Cherry declared during rare oral arguments by lawyers about whether the former football star and co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart should be allowed to post bond while their appeals are pending.

Cherry, the chairman of the three-judge panel considering the bond request, didn't say how long he and justices Mark Gibbons and Nancy Saitta might take to decide.

It appeared unlikely a ruling would come before an Aug. 12 deadline for Clark County District Attorney David Roger to file a written answer to Simpson's appeal.

Roger, who prosecuted Simpson and Stewart, argued Monday the men got a fair trial, a Nevada jury had spoken, and the pair should continue to serve their sentences for kidnapping and armed robbery.

It is unusual for the Nevada Supreme Court, the state's only appeals court, to hear oral arguments about bond, and it would be even more unusual for Simpson or Stewart to be released. The last such high-profile appellant to get such a chance in Nevada skipped town after posting $100,000 in 1978.

The justices are weighing whether Simpson or Stewart might flee, whether they pose a danger to the community, and if they have a good chance of winning their appeals.

The question of their possible success was the key point of the hearing, and inquiries from the justices shed light on the issues they're considering.

Unbelievable. The con job that O.J. Simpson has pulled on our courts is an absolute disgrace. First he gets away with killing Nicole Brown Simpson along with Ron Goldman and now this.

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CNN.com:

Former gridiron great O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to at least 15 years in prison for his role in an armed confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel in 2007.

He must serve at least nine years before he can be considered for parole.

Grimacing, Simpson was escorted from the courtroom in shackles.

The sentence was imposed after Simpson, his voice shaking, told Judge Jackie Glass that he was sorry for his actions but believed that he did nothing wrong.

Glass brushed his apology aside.

"Earlier in this case, at a bail hearing, I said to Mr. Simpson, I didn't know if he was arrogant, ignorant or both," Glass said. "During the trial and through this proceeding, I got the answer, and it was both."

She stressed that the sentence was not "payback for anything else," apparently referring to Simpson's acquittal 13 years ago in the slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman.

Good riddance killer. Make sure you don't drop the soap.

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O.J. Simpson: (Finally!) Guilty On All Counts

This is good:

A jury here Friday night found O. J. Simpson guilty on all counts in his robbery and kidnapping trial, a verdict that came 13 years to the day after Mr. Simpson was acquitted in the highly publicized murders of his ex-wife and her friend.

The 12 charges that Mr. Simpson faced stemmed from a September 2007 confrontation in a casino hotel room in which he and five cohorts departed with hundreds of items of sports memorabilia.

In the courtroom as the verdict was read, Mr. Simpson showed no emotions. He was led away in handcuffs and taken into custody. His sister, Carmelita, who was sitting in the front row, broke down in tears.

The items were in the possession of two memorabilia dealers, Bruce L. Fromong and Alfred Beardsley, who were led to believe a prospective buyer was coming to browse the goods. Instead, Mr. Simpson and his group burst into the room and, according to several witnesses, at least one gun was brandished.

The jury of nine women and three men, who deliberated for 13 hours, mulled weeks of testimony as well as hours of surreptitious audio recordings of the planning and execution of the event by Thomas Riccio, a memorabilia auctioneer who arranged the confrontation.

Personally, I've always thought O.J. Simpson killed Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. The signs were always there: from the infamous scene of him fleeing from police in that white Ford Bronco to the pictures of Nicole Brown Simpson's scars and bruises (gained from the many beatings the "Juice" gave her while they were together). Not that black liberals cared: O.J. is black and that's all that mattered to them as they quickly lined up to defend the O.J. from the "racist" criminal justice system, despite Simpson having long removed himself from the "black community" (didn't he cheat on his black wife and mother of his kids with Nicole?) for the greener/pleasure pastures of private golf courses, Beverly Hills and Hertz commercials. Despite all the photographic evidence presented during the trial. Despite the fact that it was O.J.'s fame, notoriety and loot that undoubtedly played the biggest part in the trial as it allowed Simpson to hire a literal "Dream Team" of lawyers, including the late Johnny Cochran, who got him acquitted of the murder charges.

Now, with the incredible irony of it being exactly 13 years after the Brown/Goldman acquittal, Simpson's guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping charges, facing possible life in jail. One could argue that his arrogant attitude has been his downfall. Instead of fleeing the country and making a new life elsewhere, Simpson lived his life here as if nothing happened, all the while showing disrespect to the victims and their families, continuing to play golf with his millionaire buddies, talking about "finding the real killers" and even going so far as to publish a book called "If I Did It", a sad and pathetic attempt to try and profit from two deaths for which he;d been found liable. To think it was an all-white jury that found him guilty here. What goes around comes around. indeed.

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