O.J. Simpson found GUILTY!

[Ticci]

OJ's actions exposes his thinking that he is unique and above the law. If any of us wanted to recover stolen goods, we would have gone to the police or started a lawsuit and worked through the system to get them back. Riccio told him to take the police or FBI with him but no, he chose to take his own "security;" a couple of thugs with guns. He wanted to be Mr. BadA$$ and take matters into his own hands. Well, there are laws against that. He took guns and cornered people to take items legally belonging to others. It's called armed robbery, OJ. The verdict fits THIS crime. He is finally getting what he deserves after going throughout his life thinking he can do things differently than the rest of us. He earned it. It doesn't matter who recorded what or suggested whatever. He is responsible for his own actions. And now, without all his millions to give a showboat lawyer to keep him above the law, he's paying the price any of us would pay. Good call jury!

[Splodgenessabounds]

The thing that annoys me about O.J. (does that actually stand for Orange Juice?), apart from the fact he got away with murdering his wife, is that i don't like watching Naked Gun movies anymore. To know that one of the actors (I say actor) is a murderer takes the shine off it.

[Never Here]

I think that the amount of evidence as far as the killing's go,are so overwhelming,there is no way a jury could not see he did do it.That is why the civil jury came back with a guilty verdict.But to make it all easy,just take a glance at this and then decide.Also remember to read it all,as to not want to be mistaken in your assumption.Like the fact that there is nicoles blood on his socks,and the chance in that it was anyone else's is 9.7 billion to one.(there isn't even that many people on the planet,so yeah...) Also,who the hell wear's a pair of Bruno Magli's <very expensive and rare shoes) to a murder?What a dope.Here is the link to the case,you decide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case

Edited October 4, 2008 by Never Here

[Vampwitchenstein]

There is no appeal.The law state's that when a gun is used,they have an automatic prison sentence.There is no way around this,and he will serve a minimum of at least five years for all charges.(5 to life) Wanna bet he get's way more then 5 years only?No,he is gone.He could be heard on the tape's saying"Don't let anyone leave"He had them shoved into a corner with gun's on them.His arrogance and ignorance finaly caught up to him.He thought because he was O.J. he could get away with anything.But Karma proved him wrong.And dont you find it just a lil more than a coincidence that it ended up being EXACTLY 13 years TO THE DAY?No way is that just by chance,no way.Karma.....And addressing what you were saying about jose Baez,yes he made me so mad when i first seen his tactic's,i wanted to punch him through my TV!Can't stand lawyer's,as all they do is mess up justice.Wasn't it shakespeare who said,"First we kill all the lawyers."I think it was,im not sure.I do know why he would say that.I don't know about anyone else,but i feel somewhat better seeing this guy (O.J.) go down before i croak.It has brought me some happiness.Now we need some justice to come down HARD on Casey Anthony.If it come's down to just circumstantual evidence,they will still nail her butt.They better,cause the public will get her.To much hatred for that piece of puke,and i don't blame them one bit.

13's my favorite number. I dunno why ppl wig out on it so much...but that's off topic.

Thanx for clarifying the appeal thing for me and sharing thoughts on Baez & Casey the baby killer.

Edit: Just found this in Lilly's link:

Simpson attorney Yale Galanter—who in Thursday's closing arguments called his client "stupid" for staging the so-called "sting" operation but said he did nothing criminal—has already vowed an appeal.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/entertainm...0081004/b32433/

Edited October 4, 2008 by Blondigeist

[Vampwitchenstein]

Better late that never I suppose. Jesus what an a**hole. No doubt his defence will now say it was a racist decision.

Yeah, I just heard the jury was all white. I didn't even pay attention to that until now...and I watch TRU (Court) TV every day! I really need to take my A.D.D. meds, lol!

Edit:

What I find just a bit weird (ok, a lot weird) about all this is how the number 13 seems play into it...see link here.

Exactly 13 years to the very day, after 13 hours of deliberation, O.J. is found guilty. Leaves me to wonder; will O.J. get 13 years in the slammer?

Oooooo! I'd run around saying just that for a couple minutes if that did happen. That would be WAY trippy and freakin' cool.

October is the 10th Month, it was 3rd day of Oct. Add 10 & 3=13 again.

Aha; Another one, from Lilly's article link;

According to authorities, Simpson and five other men barged in on the two memorabilia collectors, Bruce Fromong and Alfred Beardsley, at the Palace Station, an off-Strip Las Vegas hotel, on Sept. 13, 2007. (this is the date of the incident)

Edited October 4, 2008 by Blondigeist

[danielost]

The thing that annoys me about O.J. (does that actually stand for Orange Juice?), apart from the fact he got away with murdering his wife, is that i don't like watching Naked Gun movies anymore. To know that one of the actors (I say actor) is a murderer takes the shine off it.

And yet we keep voting a murderer into congress everytime he comes up for reelection.

[danielost]

I think that the amount of evidence as far as the killing's go,are so overwhelming,there is no way a jury could not see he did do it.That is why the civil jury came back with a guilty verdict.But to make it all easy,just take a glance at this and then decide.Also remember to read it all,as to not want to be mistaken in your assumption.Like the fact that there is nicoles blood on his socks,and the chance in that it was anyone else's is 9.7 billion to one.(there isn't even that many people on the planet,so yeah...) Also,who the hell wear's a pair of Bruno Magli's <very expensive and rare shoes) to a murder?What a dope.Here is the link to the case,you decide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case

That and the fact that the judge tied the hands of the defence.

[Never Here]

In the end, OJ Simpson comes up a loser in Vegas By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent

Sat Oct 4, 7:10 PM ET

LAS VEGAS - In a city where luck means everything, O.J. Simpson came out the big loser — and his unlucky number in a case full of bizarre twists was 13.

He was convicted of an armed robbery that happened on Sept. 13 and was found guilty on the 13th anniversary of his Los Angeles murder acquittal. The Las Vegas jury deliberated for 13 hours after a 13-day trial.

And then, as only the sobs of Simpson's sister broke the silence late Friday, the lights went out.

Court marshals flipped on flashlights and shouted for everyone to stay seated. Only the judge knew what had happened. It was 11 p.m. and the courthouse lights had shut down automatically.

"Timed out," Judge Jackie Glass said in a fitting epitaph for the story of O.J. Simpson, which has long haunted America.

The 61-year-old Hall of Fame football star was convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery and 10 other charges for gathering five men a year ago and storming a room at a hotel-casino to seize Simpson sports mementos — including game balls, plaques and photos — from two collectors. Prosecutors said two of the men with him were armed; one said Simpson had asked him to bring a gun.

After the verdict, Simpson, the sports-idol-turned-celebrity-pariah, was handcuffed and led from the room with his co-defendant, Clarence "C.J." Stewart. They could spend the rest of their lives in prison.

"There is justice," said attorney Gloria Allred, who has represented the family of his slain ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson. "Justice was delayed, but in this case it was not denied. Now that he may spend the rest of his life in prison, the law, and not O.J. Simpson, will have the last word."

Some observers said the Las Vegas case paled in comparison to the "trial of the century" in 1995, a yearlong opus in which Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend Ronald Goldman.

A rapt nation followed the Los Angeles trial. Tales of a gruesome murder and a bloody glove, as well as the celebrity defendant, drew a media frenzy.

In Las Vegas, Simpson's fate played out in a small courtroom dotted with empty seats. Even the stunning verdict came as most of America slept, oblivious to the irony that Simpson might spend the rest of his life in prison for what most perceived as a petty crime, a tussle among dysfunctional middle-aged men.

Simpson's Las Vegas defense tried to tell the jury that the two cases had nothing to do with each other, but it was a losing battle.

"I don't know that one trial cancels out the other," said Loyola University law professor Laurie Levenson, who attended Simpson's murder trial. "People will always be troubled by O.J. For the people troubled by the Los Angeles acquittal, this case will make small amends. Saying finally there is justice, at least from a legal perspective, is very crude way of looking at justice."

She predicted that Stewart, 54, will have a strong chance for reversal on appeal because he was forced to stand trial beside Simpson.

"O.J. was toxic, and he has been toxic since 1994, and this jury was just ready to clean up the mess," Levenson said.

Simpson lawyer Yale Galanter said Saturday he felt bad for Simpson but even worse for Stewart, who got dragged along in a campaign to convict Simpson.

"This was just payback," he said of the verdict. "They were on an agenda."

Galanter and Stewart's lawyers promised to appeal, in part because unlike the predominantly black jury that decided Simpson's murder case, this panel included no African-Americans. Neither Simpson nor Stewart testified.

Simpson friend Tom Scotto, who wept in court, called it "a public lynching."

"Was this something to put someone in jail for the rest of their life for? It's a total injustice. There was no justice served in that courtroom," Scotto said.

It was Scotto's wedding that had brought Simpson to Las Vegas on that fateful week in 2007, and details of wedding plans, flowers, a cake and parties formed an ironic counterpoint to testimony about Simpson gathering up a posse that included two gun-toting men to confront memorabilia dealers who were peddling Simpson's personal property to the highest bidder.

The case was set in motion by Thomas Riccio, a collectibles broker who tried to bring in the FBI when he heard that two memorabilia dealers were planning to sell a trove of Simpson artifacts. Failing to get their attention, he helped set up a "sting" by promoting an anonymous buyer who turned out to be Simpson.

Riccio, who has peddled goods including video of Anna Nicole Smith's breast implant surgery, saw a chance to profit by recording the confrontation between Simpson and collectibles dealers Alfred Beardsley and Bruce Fromong.

He rented a cramped hotel room away from the Las Vegas Strip for the meeting and planted a digital recorder atop an armoire. Riccio then sold the recordings of the six-minute confrontation for $210,000 before turning them over to police eight days later. Although they couldn't be authenticated, the recordings became the heart of the prosecution's case, along with audio recorded by gunman Michael McClinton at two wedding parties.

The recordings were sometimes garbled, but Simpson's voice came through loud and clear: "Don't let nobody out of this room." The words formed the basis of the prosecution's kidnapping charge.

The former football hero also was heard accusing the men of stealing his possessions. His lawyer would argue that Simpson was on a recovery mission to reclaim the artifacts of his life.

But District Attorney David Roger argued that ownership was not a defense to robbery.

Kidnapping is punishable by five years to life in prison. Armed robbery carries a sentence of at least two years behind bars and could bring as much as 30.

Simpson and Stewart were taken to the Clark County jail, where the football star will live in a 7-by-14-foot cell, far removed from his ranch-style home in the lush Miami suburbs. It will be his home until at least Dec. 5, when he and Stewart are scheduled to be sentenced.

Even before the verdict, Simpson appeared resigned that his luck had run out.

He had been prepared for the worst, his lawyer said.

And in a conversation with The Associated Press on Thursday, Simpson implied as much, saying, "I'm afraid that I won't get to go to my kids' college graduations after I managed to get them through college."

Scotto told reporters Saturday that he had spoken to Simpson by phone.

"He's in good spirits," Scotto said. "He's one of the strongest human beings on the planet. He's confident the truth will come out eventually."

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Associated Press writers Ken Ritter and Kathleen Hennessey in Las Vegas and Greg Risling in Los Angeles contributed to this report.------Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081004/ap_on_re_us/oj_simpson

Edited October 5, 2008 by Never Here

[ValkyrieVoice]

Not a single black person on the jury? you had better bet that there will be ramifications... They will say that he is paying for the murders, not the latest crime...

13 years to the day? wow, I dont think it gets more ironic than that...

There were too black jurors! I heard that a lot of the women, six women in all were black! But, you're also right when you say there'll be ramifications if there weren't any black jurors!

[Vampwitchenstein]

There were too black jurors! I heard that a lot of the women, six women in all were black! But, you're also right when you say there'll be ramifications if there weren't any black jurors!

Just to clarify:

LAS VEGAS - An all-white jury was chosen late Thursday to judge O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant on kidnapping and robbery charges after a contentious courtroom battle in which defense lawyers argued African-Americans were being systematically excluded by the prosecution.

District Attorney David Roger defended the final makeup of the jury, saying that two of six alternate jurors are black. Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass said she saw no evidence of a systematic exclusion of African-Americans.

Roger gave the judge what he called "race neutral" reasons for removing two African-American women from the jury panel with his peremptory challenges.

Both of the women who were removed had strong religious views, and the prosecutor said he thought one of them would be inclined to "forgive" Simpson while the other said she was hesitant to send anyone to prison.

Defense attorneys for Simpson and co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart, who are both black, moved to dismiss the entire jury - nine women and three men - and start again. The judge turned down the motion.

Simpson's 1995 acquittal on murder charges came from a predominantly black jury...

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/09/...ons_las_-2.html

Edit:underlining

Edited October 5, 2008 by Blondigeist

[WiseguY]

If it's clear he'll be in jail for the rest of his life, do you think he'll admit to the murders? Double Jeopardy prevents them from giving him the DP or anything added onto this sentence.

[chemical-licker]

What I find just a bit weird (ok, a lot weird) about all this is how the number 13 seems play into it...see link here.

Exactly 13 years to the very day, after 13 hours of deliberation, O.J. is found guilty. Leaves me to wonder; will O.J. get 13 years in the slammer?

i got one, 3 oct and oct is the 10th month so 10 + 3 = 13

[questionmark]

If it's clear he'll be in jail for the rest of his life, do you think he'll admit to the murders? Double Jeopardy prevents them from giving him the DP or anything added onto this sentence.

Why would he? There is always a chance of parole.

[Vampwitchenstein]

i got one, 3 oct and oct is the 10th month so 10 + 3 = 13

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October is the 10th Month, it was 3rd day of Oct. Add 10 & 3=13 again.

Aha; Another one, from Lilly's article link;

According to authorities, Simpson and five other men barged in on the two memorabilia collectors, Bruce Fromong and Alfred Beardsley, at the Palace Station, an off-Strip Las Vegas hotel, on Sept. 13, 2007. (this is the date of the incident)

[JustNormal]

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It was SO awesome watching his ugly face, when the verdicts came down. When taken into custody in cuffs, was even more thrilling. What goes around, comes around. He is a total POS and I feel FINALLY justice was served..CYA OJ....

[JustNormal]

If it's clear he'll be in jail for the rest of his life, do you think he'll admit to the murders? Double Jeopardy prevents them from giving him the DP or anything added onto this sentence.

He already pretty much admitted to the murders in his book "IF I DID IT." Who cares now, he's going to the big house hopefully for the rest of his pathetic life. I hope the Browns, Goldmans, and victims can finally feel some closure..JN

[Plainbob13]

He already pretty much admitted to the murders in his book "IF I DID IT." Who cares now, he's going to the big house hopefully for the rest of his pathetic life. I hope the Browns, Goldmans, and victims can finally feel some closure..JN

Wasn't the original title of the book, "I did it." Or something like that.

[JustNormal]

Wasn't the original title of the book, "I did it." Or something like that.

LOL No, but it might as well have been. He covered his a.. and titled it "IF I DID IT." LOSER!!!!! He is the most hated man in the country, and wonder why? LOL..JN

[chrisfreak]

So.. the chewbacca defense doesn't work this time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUP5GzHIojU

THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!

[OldTimeRadio]

The only problem is it was a set up. The vegas police wanted to do what the LA police couldn't do.

Simpson was convicted of the California murders rather than the Nevada crime with which he was charged. Whether or not Simpson belongs in prison, that's wholly un-Constitutional and there's at least a 90 per cent chance that the conviction will be reversed by the first appeals court which takes it up. We don't have revenge courts in the United States. A shame, for Simpson probably deserves jail time.

Edited October 6, 2008 by OldTimeRadio

[Never Here]

Simpson was convicted of the California murders rather than the Nevada crime with which he was charged. Whether or not Simpson belongs in prison, that's wholly un-Constitutional and there's at least a 90 per cent chance that the conviction will be reversed by the first appeals court which takes it up. We don't have revenge courts in the United States. A shame, for Simpson probably deserves jail time.

He was found guilty in Civil court strangely enough.And the name of the book was"If i did it" with the word "if" faded out a lot.He is not going to be released,there are Kidnapping charges there.Armed robbery.There is *no way* he will be out playing golf with his buddies ever again.He can Appeal till he turn's blue.He has 7 days to do anything,wich his lawyer said,"that's not enough time"To wich the judge added,"it's all you have".So,way too bad for O.J.(Dosent anyone feel sorry for his ex-wife?The one who was almost decapitated?)

[HollyDolly]

I wonder how many of the juror's had it in the back of their mind about the aquittal that he got for his wife's murder, and knew he was guilty then???

Oh I'm sure it was there alright. My sister didn't get home from Court Tv,now Tru Tv till 4:30 am Saturday morning, since she was covering the trial.

Yeah we both are happy they finally got him and he is going away for awhile. He better watch his back, cause if somebody does in him in while in prision, that might make them a celebrity in prision for killing OJ.

[Obsin]

Wow ... Lynch mob mentality dies hard. Now I can understand why people would be smiling and laughing in front of hanging corpses and burning bodies.

Although I agree OJ is stupid. People hate him, and he knew that, so the last thing he should have done was gotten himself in trouble again. He should have just disappeared from the public eye.

So he gets what he deserves, the fool.

[chemical-licker]

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you are to good ruddy next time i need to read with

[Sweetpumper]

Burn in hell, Juice. Hopefully someone lops his head off, slowly, with a really dull shank.