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Though Hall of Fame running back O. J. Simpson currently is sitting in one of the few rooms in Las Vegas that don’t contain easy access to a slot machine, he apparently thought he was going to beat the rap on the charges that could result in incarceration for the rest of his life.
A reader has pointed out a report from the Las Vegas Review-Journal regarding Simpson’s now-scrapped plans for an acquittal party.
Simpson associate Thomas Riccio, after an interview with Vegas radio host Anthony Crivello, invited him to join Simpson’s entourage for the post-acquittal bash.
Simpson’s camp apparently had been banking on a hung jury. They didn’t get one.
We hope that they used air, not helium, for the balloons.
October 6th, 2008 at 7:33 am
He’s just lucky I don’t get to determine his sentence, because I’d give him the full-on Wicker Man punishment…..and no, I don’t mean I’d set him on fire in a giant statue…..I mean I’d make him watch The Wicker Man remake, over and over again, until he could do it without laughing. It’s basically a modern day Sisyphus punishment…..”Almost there….almost there….Holy sh*t! That bear just punched a woman! Hahaha!…..Crap.”
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October 6th, 2008 at 7:39 am
If you are brought up on armed robbery and 11 other charges, what else are you banking on Florio?
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October 6th, 2008 at 8:15 am
I think Ron and Nicole were “banking” on living longer, too.
Maybe there is some justice in this world.
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October 6th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Or you could make him watch all of Dane Cooks movies. A sentence worse than death.
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October 6th, 2008 at 9:02 am
He will spend many years sharing cells
with Bubba Jones and Big Al Methlenberg.
LOL
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October 6th, 2008 at 9:38 am
I wonder how much money he’ll make signing autographs for the prison guards. I hope he enjoys being the new “girl” on the [prison] block.
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October 6th, 2008 at 10:04 am
the only party he is going to is a party that he will have to bting astro-glide or k-y jelly. i hope your a “good girl” for bubba !
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October 6th, 2008 at 10:05 am
I am not surprised that OJ was counting on an acquittal. The murder charges were not the only thing he got away with over the years. There was an assault charge about 8 years ago where he got off. The man felt he was extremely lucky in courtrooms. With luck like that, why not go to Vegas?
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October 6th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Too bad he can’t have the top bunk in Hannibal Lechter’s cell.
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October 6th, 2008 at 10:08 am
I think OJ was guilty several years ago, but there is a serious problem if the bias of that trial affected this one.
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October 6th, 2008 at 10:47 am
All you people here kill me. You just don’t what happen. Yeah I think he killed those two people. But have any of you actually listened to all the facts in this case. OJ was set up. If someone stole your most prized Possessions what would you do? GO get them back. Dont’ tell me you wouldn’t. Look I’m not saying he did not kill 2 people. All I’m saying is this is the sytem trying to make up for the slip through the cracks. They actually have proof that They set him up. Yet The judge dind’t allow it. Come on people.. now if this was you you’d honestly feel wronged. But since it’s OJ its ok. I can’t wait till the system screws you.
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October 6th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Bubba Jones, Juan “the Knife”
and Big Al from the Gay Nazi Skinheads
are all waiting for OJ to arrive upstate.
LOL
@kellyb9,,,
Sometimes Justice is just that,,,, Justice.
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October 6th, 2008 at 11:03 am
kellyb9
That is exactly the state of this case.
The only way a guy gets 13 years for trying to recover stolen property, while the fence and the middle man of this stolen property GET PAID, there is serious injustice afoot.
If this were anyone else other than OJ there’s no way 13 years are given as a sentence.
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October 6th, 2008 at 11:14 am
OJ has an entourage?
They should have had a party anyway. I’d have come. I’m always up for a good party.
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October 6th, 2008 at 11:38 am
>>eric2706 says:
October 6th, 2008 at 10:47 am
All you people here kill me. You just don’t what happen. Yeah I think he killed those two people. But have any of you actually listened to all the facts in this case. OJ was set up. If someone stole your most prized Possessions what would you do? GO get them back. Dont’ tell me you wouldn’t. Look I’m not saying he did not kill 2 people. All I’m saying is this is the sytem trying to make up for the slip through the cracks. They actually have proof that They set him up. Yet The judge dind’t allow it. Come on people.. now if this was you you’d honestly feel wronged. But since it’s OJ its ok. I can’t wait till the system screws you.<<
Obviously YOU don’t know the facts in this case.
The jurors came out and said they found him guilty solely based on the audio taped evidence. OJ was heard asking his cronies if they “pulled out their piece.” That means he had knowlegde that guns were brought in, which is conspiracy to commit robbery and burglary while in possession of a deadly weapon.
He was also heard saying “Don’t let nobody out of this room. Motherf***er, you think you can steal my sh*t and sell it?” There’s your kidnapping charges.
Since he rounded up some folks to “help him get his stuff back,” you have conspiracy to commit a crime.
He had legal ways of getting his things back. He could have gone to police for starters. Then they could have gone to court. He didn’t have to gather a couple of gun toting street urchins to forcefully steal his stuff back.
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October 6th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
For all of you who are sticking up for this scum get a life…..the man got away with killing 2 people and went on to try and write a book about it….you have to be kidding me…good for whoever set this trash up and get him put where he belongs…
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October 6th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I would have very mixed feelings (well, not really) if the life in prison thing occurs for OJ Simpson. Because there is no doubt in my mind that what is going on now is a “make up” for what occurred before. There is no way in hell that the alleged robbery to get back what was or was not rightfully owned in the first place and temporary kidnapping deserve life in prison. Life in prison for that is cruel, unusual, insane, and idiotic.
However, Simpson did murder two people in the ’90s and is a bad, bad individual. So, what gives? How should the public feel about this? Because life in prison is eligible, should Simpson be given that sentence for a crime that clearly doesn’t deserve that?
However, he did MURDER two people back in the day. I’m interested to see what the sentencing is.
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October 6th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
thepack22 - That case shouldn’t have any bearing over this one, and if it does, OJ will have a serious cause for an appeal. That’s the real concern here. He is to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, if there is some doubt than those jurors have no choice but to declare that he’s, in fact, innocent. It’s called burden of proof. Our legal system does work this way for a reason. I’m not defending him, I’m defending the system.
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October 6th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
O.J.’s luck simply ran out! And look at the number 13 here. He was convicted 13 years to the day that he beat the murder rap in a trial that lasted 13 days by a jury that deliberated 13 hours; and… the crime committed that got him convicted?… happened September 13!
One other interesting tidbit to note… the number 12. 12 jurors, 12 counts.
Add the numbers up and you get 25. Yeah! As in 25 to LIFE! See ya O.J.
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October 6th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
eric2706 - the system DID screw me. Wrongfully convicted of beating a cop who actually beat the crap out of me, but he broke his hand doing so.
I do think that O.J. was most likely set up in this latest case - I followed the trial and I really thought if he had a FAIR jury that they would acquit. But, I knew that if there was any way they could convict him to supposedly “right a wrong”, that they would and that’s what happened.
In all honesty, and I think even Florio would agree with me here, if O.J. had never been caught up in the “Trial of the Century”, had none of that ever happened - this case in Las Vegas would have never even gone to trial.
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October 6th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
>>dolfan99_34 says:
October 6th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
eric2706 - the system DID screw me. Wrongfully convicted of beating a cop who actually beat the crap out of me, but he broke his hand doing so.
I do think that O.J. was most likely set up in this latest case - I followed the trial and I really thought if he had a FAIR jury that they would acquit. But, I knew that if there was any way they could convict him to supposedly “right a wrong”, that they would and that’s what happened.
In all honesty, and I think even Florio would agree with me here, if O.J. had never been caught up in the “Trial of the Century”, had none of that ever happened - this case in Las Vegas would have never even gone to trial.<<
Set up or not, he still committed the crimes. He was first recorded asking his cronies if they had their “pieces” and then later asking if they pulled them out. He still conspired to commit kidnapping and armed robbery. He’s not just some innocent bystander here. He CHOSE to commit those crimes.
And please,an unfair jury? Stop drinking the kool-aid man. There are strict guidelines that dictate how many of what ethnicity are selected to the jury pool, based on census data. Jury selection is subject to affirmative action just like the rest of the world.
The two black women that got let go were let go for good reason- One said flat out that she was a forgiving person and probably couldn’t convict him, and the other was on the record discussing a bias she had against the legal system because her son was wrongfully committed. There’s two folks who weren’t going to convict regardless of what came out in trial that had to be dismissed since they were on the record as claiming they couldn’t be impartial.
Also of note is that one of the jurors happens to be a lesbian who has a black significant other. Please, tell me she too had a bias against black people.
The “unfair jury” bit is crap.
As for whether or not there was a bias that led to the trial of this case, so what. The guy is a turd who committed these crimes.
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October 7th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
SpartaChris - my comment about a FAIR jury had nothing to do with race, so don’t go there. What I meant was that O.J. would never get a fair jury in any case anywhere in this country after his acquittal in ‘95. You would have to be just waking up from a coma to not know of the ‘95 case and not have formed an opinion about his guilt or innocence in that case. That was what I meant by FAIR. For you to make it a racial issue is unfair when you you obviously did not know what I meant.
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October 7th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
@dolfan99_34 says
No it isn’t unfair of me to make it a racial issue. The first thing OJ’s attorney complained about after the guilty verdict was in was that there were no blacks on the jury. The main complaint everyone who thought OJ was innocent of these crimes had was that there were no blacks on this jury. So it was made a racial issue long before I ever commented on it.
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