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2008-12-05 -Lurid Crime Tales-

O.J. Simpson Facing Life Sentence for Robbery, Kidnapping

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-12-05 10:55|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Life would be pretty harsh for a first-time offender.

Posted by Plastic Snoopy 2008-12-05 11:34|| 2008-12-05 11:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Nice to see he graduated from a knife to a gun.
It'a pretty sad, when the defence team, after the fact (first trial) admits your guilt. Payback a bitch. You can get away with things just so long. I feel he really think he's invincible. What will he pull next, were he let go?

Posted by jojo">jojo 2008-12-05 12:18|| 2008-12-05 12:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Should have done this in CA - with his celebrity he probably only would have had 48 hours and set up as The Pen Guest Golf Instructor.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-12-05 12:28|| 2008-12-05 12:28|| Front Page Top

#4 15 years.

Posted by Pappy 2008-12-05 13:27|| 2008-12-05 13:27|| Front Page Top

#5 18 years eligible for parole in 5.

Posted by Beavis 2008-12-05 13:29|| 2008-12-05 13:29|| Front Page Top

#6 O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to at least 6 years in prison for armed robbery and kidnapping in a failed attempt to recover sports memorabilia from two collectibles peddlers.

He could serve up to 16 years behind bars, but there will be the possibility of parole after five years plus time served for a total of six years, Judge Jackie Glass said.

His co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart received the same sentence.

Look at it this way, OJ. If the "real killer" is in the Nevada state pen, you got plenty of time to find him.

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-05 13:35|| 2008-12-05 13:35|| Front Page Top

#7 I think this guy should have been in jail awhile ago. If you want an interesting perspective from a young, black guy who works with me at McDonalds, check this out (warning, his language is pretty bad):

http://deepfriedworldwide.com/archives/132

We all started a webpage at our fast-food store, the workers love it, and we are not pros at this yet (it has been up only 2 weeks), but please let us know what you think!

Posted by Radley">Radley 2008-12-05 13:51|| www.deepfriedworldwide.com]">[www.deepfriedworldwide.com] 2008-12-05 13:51|| Front Page Top

#8 15 years!
See ya O.J.
Your done.

George Vreeland Hill

Posted by George Vreeland Hill">George Vreeland Hill 2008-12-05 14:07|| 2008-12-05 14:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Outside court, Goldman's father, Fred Goldman, and sister, Kim, said they were thrilled with the sentence. "There's never closure. Ron is always gone. What we have is satisfaction that this monster is where he belongs behind bars," Fred Goldman said.

I think they oughta sue for his license plate money...

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-05 14:30|| 2008-12-05 14:30|| Front Page Top

#10 This is getting confusing...

LAS VEGAS A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as much as 33 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity." The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled and stone-faced when Judge Jackie Glass quickly rattled off his punishment soon after he made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, choking back tears as he told her: "I didn't want to steal anything from anyone. ... I'm sorry, sorry."

Simpson said he was simply trying to retrieve sports memorabilia and other mementos, including his first wife's wedding ring, from two dealers when he stormed a Las Vegas hotel room on Sept. 13, 2007.

But the judge emphasized that it was a violent confrontation in which at least one gun was drawn, and she said someone could have been killed. She said the evidence was overwhelming, with the planning, the confrontation itself and the aftermath all recorded on audio or videotape.

Glass, a no-nonsense judge known for her tough sentences, imposed such a complex series of consecutive and concurrent sentences that even many attorneys watching the case were confused as to how much time Simpson got.

Simpson could serve up to 33 years but could be eligible for parole after nine years, according to Elana Roberto, the judge's clerk.

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-05 14:50|| 2008-12-05 14:50|| Front Page Top

#11 The some true believers are still around...

http://media.lvrj.com/images/oj_simpson_120508.jpg

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-05 15:41|| 2008-12-05 15:41|| Front Page Top

#12 It's not full justice, and it can never make up for what he did, but at least it's something more than him getting off completely.

He deserves to meet a bad end in prison.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-12-05 16:14|| 2008-12-05 16:14|| Front Page Top

#13 ooooh goodness please everybody...{cracking up}

we all know that O.J. stands for "OFF to Jail!!!" we can't collect $200.00 cause he's broke, and there's no sense in him passing "Go" cause he's way passed "GONE!" so much for the hard game of REAL LIFE.

Posted by cris">cris 2008-12-05 16:26|| 2008-12-05 16:26|| Front Page Top

#14 FREEREPUBLIC > OJ's been sentenced to 33 years total, wid first parole eligibility after less than ten [9 years].

* CNN this AM > OJ's lawyers plan to appeal.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-12-05 17:31|| 2008-12-05 17:31|| Front Page Top

#15 Get off of his case. 13 years ago he should not even have gone to trial. There are interesting pictures of his bedroom 13 years ago - at 7:30am - NO socks at the FOOT of his bed. THEN at 10:30am there were BLODDY socks at the foot of his bed - INTERESTING..

Then we have Fred Goodman, money hungry (gold digging) to the first degree - FOR 2 YEARS before his son's death the two of them had not even SPOKEN!!!!

AND then we have the present "judge". Her comments, etc., from the "bench" probably will have the case and judgment tossed out and her reprimanded. To say she had "Agenda" is an UNDERSTATEMENT!!!!!!

Posted by Mathews 2008-12-05 18:26|| 2008-12-05 18:26|| Front Page Top

#16 Well, Mathews, win some, lose some.
This time they got him on tape. Buh bye...

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-05 18:47|| 2008-12-05 18:47|| Front Page Top

#17 tu - I have a strong feeling that the real killer is in Nevada corrections. Perhaps OJ can put out a "hit" on him?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-12-05 18:49|| 2008-12-05 18:49|| Front Page Top

#18 Wonder if he'll name his shank "Nicole"?

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-05 18:55|| 2008-12-05 18:55|| Front Page Top

#19 I had a loverly Sirloin Marsola with a couple of glasses of Diemersfontein Shiraz tonight. Very Christmasy. What did you have OJ?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-12-05 19:57|| 2008-12-05 19:57|| Front Page Top

#20 Can we all agree that "O.J. Simpson" or variants thereof will NEVER be used on Rantburg again, excepting he is severely beaten or dies in prison?

Posted by OldSpook 2008-12-05 20:04|| 2008-12-05 20:04|| Front Page Top

#21 So, Spook, what do you have against Christopher Lloyd?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2008-12-05 20:53|| 2008-12-05 20:53|| Front Page Top

#22 LV judge squeezes OJ. Finally...

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-12-05 22:13|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-12-05 22:13|| Front Page Top

#23 Well, if someone would be so kind as to instruct me (in great detail) how to edit those videos, I would have put the real targets face in there. As it is, Lloyd deserves it for chewing more scenerey than even Shatner did (in this movie).

Posted by OldSpook 2008-12-05 22:14|| 2008-12-05 22:14|| Front Page Top

#24 by the way - this judge Jackie Glass was the hawt: smart, beautiful (OK, for her age) and no shit tough...

Ima thinkrn I'm in love

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-12-05 22:21|| 2008-12-05 22:21|| Front Page Top

#25 You are such a romantic, Frank dear. :-)

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-12-05 23:21|| 2008-12-05 23:21|| Front Page Top

#26 I is a soft touch, no matter my image LOL

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-12-05 23:27|| 2008-12-05 23:27|| Front Page Top

#27 BTW Mathews, Simpson's sports agent Mike Gilbert, in his new book How I Helped OJ Get Away WIth It, noted that he told OJ to Not take his arthritis meds so that the gloves wouldn't fit.

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2008-12-05 23:36|| 2008-12-05 23:36|| Front Page Top

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