OJ goes to prison

[Mighty Thor]

LAS VEGAS – A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as many 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 as Judge Jackie Glass rattled off the punishment. Moments before, Simpson made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, simultaneously apologizing for the holdup as a foolish mistake and trying to justify his actions.

He choked 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 shot. She said the evidence was overwhelming, with the planning, the confrontation itself and the aftermath all recorded on audio or videotape.

[Bonemaro]

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Awesome! About time.

[LETZRIDE]

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I think thats soo retarded...how do you go to jail for stealing back **** that you own???

I think this was just done to nail him for the crime he was acquitted from before...

[3.4 slow to go]

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you to jail for:

using guns to force yourself

being stupid enough to have it on audio/video


maybe he can get a lead on Nicole's killer while in jail? I here the inmates like to talk every now & then

[LETZRIDE]

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you to jail for:

using guns to force yourself

being stupid enough to have it on audio/video


maybe he can get a lead on Nicole's killer while in jail? I here the inmates like to talk every now & then

well he was taking back HIS stuff from a thief...I wouldnt go in without a gun either...

I think this is as dumb as someone who breaks into your house and injures themselves now they can sue you...like, if you didnt break the law to begin with, that **** never would of happened....:rolleyes:

[Smoke Panther]

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I think thats soo retarded...how do you go to jail for stealing back **** that you own???

well he was taking back HIS stuff from a thief...I wouldnt go in without a gun either...

doesn't matter..you call the police, not a vigilante posse

[LETZRIDE]

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yea tru...but I still think going to jail for 15 years (is what I heard) is ridiculous for this...

plus, any money the memorabilia and his wifes wedding ring would have been pawned off by then...

[kristen]

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you don't go to jail for cutting 2 heads off.

then they get you for stealing.

if they asked him what he should have done differently, i'm sure he would have said, cut their heads off too.

[LETZRIDE]

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you don't go to jail for cutting 2 heads off.

then they get you for stealing.

if they asked him what he should have done differently, i'm sure he would have said, cut their heads off too.

see this is why he went to jail...people need to be impartial to what happened before...he was acquitted...that means he was not guilty.

I feel this Judge was probably not impartial to what happened before, and this is the end result....

[Smoke Panther]

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I feel this Judge was probably not impartial to what happened before, and this is the end result....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/oj_simpson

The judge said several times that her sentence in the Las Vegas case had nothing to do with Simpson's 1995 acquittal in the slaying of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

well, i guess we're at a "your word vs. his word" impass

[LETZRIDE]

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still doesnt change my opinon on the matter...

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

I'm willing to bet any money that if this was another celebrity without a controversial murder acquital looming in the background, the punishment would have been significantly less. Probably still would have got jail time, but a lot less IMO...

[Smoke Panther]

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still doesnt change my opinon on the matter...

not saying you should either...you're entitled to your opinion, regardless of the truth that's tied to it

I'm willing to bet any money that if this was another celebrity without a controversial murder acquital looming in the background, the punishment would have been significantly less. Probably still would have got jail time, but a lot less IMO...

yea, the justice system isn't perfect....look at all the people on death row who have been acquitted thanks to new advances in technology

[kristen]

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i'm not saying that he should be locked up now for what he "might" have commented in the past. what he did this time was wrong. Just funny that in the end...........he's behind bars

[LETZRIDE]

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he owned the stuff that was stolen from him....he went and stole it back (is that even stealing???) he drew a gun and had somewhat of a violent encounter (he was dealing with people that may be violent themselves...

[Kleenax]

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Unfortunately this is what appears to happens when you are famous, you become oblivious to common sense and feel that you are above the law.It is unfortunate for people to remember him for what he has done off the field rather than what he has done on it.