OJ Simpson Sentenced for 15 Years

[Requin]

US football star and actor OJ Simpson has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for armed robbery, conspiracy to kidnap and assault with a deadly weapon.

Describing Simpson, 61, as arrogant and ignorant, District Judge Jackie Glass said the evidence was overwhelming.
Simpson made an emotional appeal prior to sentencing at the Las Vegas court, saying he was "sorry" and "confused".

His accomplice, Clarence Stewart, was also sentenced to 15 years after the two were convicted on 12 charges.
The charges related to the robbery and holding of two sports memorabilia dealers at the Palace Station hotel in Las Vegas in September 2007.
In 1995, Simpson was acquitted of murdering his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman in what was dubbed "the trial of the century".

'Trial of the century'
Simpson and Stewart had seized the memorabilia dealers in an attempt to reclaim items linked to the former National Football League star's sporting career, which Simpson claimed still belonged to him.
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Before sentencing, Judge Glass said: "The potential for harm to occur in that room was tremendous."
"You went to the room, you took guns... you used force, you took property... and in this state that amounts to robbery with a deadly weapon," said the judge.
Prior to sentencing, Simpson pleaded for leniency from the judge with a trembling voice and tears in his eyes.
"I didn't mean to hurt anybody and I didn't mean to steal from anybody," said the former Buffalo Bills player.
"I did not know that I was doing anything illegal," he said. "I thought that I was confronting friends and retrieving my property. So I am sorry. I am sorry for all of it."
Judge Glass dismissed two counts of coercion with use of a deadly weapon.

But she denied defence motions for bail pending appeal, saying both defendants posed a risk of fleeing. After his acquittal in the 1995 case, Simpson was later found liable for the deaths in a civil case and ordered to pay $33.5m (£19m) to Mr Goldman's family.

From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7767556.stm

[Atonement]

I guess now I will have to stop making OJ jokes... every time I see orange juice, I can't say "WATCH OUT! ITS OJ!" noooo, because he's in prison. ugh.

[Neverender]

I guess now I will have to stop making OJ jokes... every time I see orange juice, I can't say "WATCH OUT! ITS OJ!" noooo, because he's in prison. ugh.

i agree. there goes my "Drink Apple Juice..OJ will kill you" avatar.

oh well. anyways the mans a nut, he should've gone to prison anyways for killing those people. but some of the guys in prison who hate him (either becase they think he did it, or they just don't like the fact that he used his money to escape going to jail for murder while the guys in prison went there for more petty crimes.)

[Random_oso06]

wow i barely heard about this an hour ago on cnn

[eikookmi]

i thought it was 30 years and 15 years for um something else. bail or something. or something else. i forgot..

[Mzor203]

A little late, but yer... He had it coming, and he knew it. Hell, he wrote a book about it.

[Patchy]

Hmm the paper today said it was up to 33 years.

Oh well exaggeration by UK press then :p

First time I've seen a celeb actually get a decent sentence.

[Requin]

I wouldn't class him as a 'celeb' personally.
I'd rate him as an idiot thug who got what was coming to him....

[Patchy]

yeah I agree see celebs as role models (well the majority of them) certainly he's someone to look down upon not up at.

[Underground_Network]

He did get 33 years. There were two separate things he was being charged on. The first netted him 15 years, the second netted him 18 years, a combined total of *drum roll* 33 years. He's going to have to spend a minimum of 9 years in jail, and well, I think he'll spend more, somewhere around 15-18 years, if he survives that long in jail.

I don't know, he's not a great guy now, but there's no denying the fact that he was a GREAT football player.

[0=]

Finally.

[Antares]

Thats ridiculous. Totally more than needed.
I would appeal that up the wall because it seems that they are charging him for what he 'got away' with before.
They should have only sentanced him for what he did this time. Not in the past.

[Underground_Network]

^^ Actually I read somewhere that he got the bare minimum based on Nevada state law for at least the 15 year charge. And the 18 year charge was only like 3 years more than the minimum. So there's really no point in appealing, he's old and 3 years isn't a big difference.

Proofz:

NRS 200.310 Degrees.

1. A person who willfully seizes, confines, inveigles, entices, decoys, abducts, conceals, kidnaps or carries away a person by any means whatsoever with the intent to hold or detain, or who holds or detains, the person for ransom, or reward, or for the purpose of committing sexual assault, extortion or robbery upon or from the person, or for the purpose of killing the person or inflicting substantial bodily harm upon him, or to exact from relatives, friends, or any other person any money or valuable thing for the return or disposition of the kidnapped person, and a person who leads, takes, entices, or carries away or detains any minor with the intent to keep, imprison, or confine him from his parents, guardians, or any other person having lawful custody of the minor, or with the intent to hold the minor to unlawful service, or perpetrate upon the person of the minor any unlawful act is guilty of kidnapping in the first degree which is a category A felony.

2. A person who willfully and without authority of law seizes, inveigles, takes, carries away or kidnaps another person with the intent to keep the person secretly imprisoned within the State, or for the purpose of conveying the person out of the State without authority of law, or in any manner held to service or detained against his will, is guilty of kidnapping in the second degree which is a category B felony.

[1:165:1947; 1943 NCL § 10612.05]—(NRS A 1959, 20; 1979, 39; 1987, 495; 1995, 1184)

and...

NRS 200.320 Kidnapping in first degree: Penalties. A person convicted of kidnapping in the first degree is guilty of a category A felony and shall be punished:

1. Where the kidnapped person suffers substantial bodily harm during the act of kidnapping or the subsequent detention and confinement or in attempted escape or escape therefrom, by imprisonment in the state prison:

(a) For life without the possibility of parole;

(b) For life with the possibility of parole, with eligibility for parole beginning when a minimum of 15 years has been served; or

(c) For a definite term of 40 years, with eligibility for parole beginning when a minimum of 15 years has been served.

2. Where the kidnapped person suffers no substantial bodily harm as a result of the kidnapping, by imprisonment in the state prison:

(a) For life with the possibility of parole, with eligibility for parole beginning when a minimum of 5 years has been served; or

(b) For a definite term of 15 years, with eligibility for parole beginning when a minimum of 5 years has been served.

[2:165:1947; 1943 NCL § 10612.06]—(NRS A 1967, 469; 1973, 1804; 1995, 1184)

Thus at least for the initial charge, 15 years was the minimum sentence.

[Antares]

They said he got 33 years though. Not 15 or whatever

[Underground_Network]

33 was the added 18 years for ANOTHER charge.

There were TWO charges involved.

What I showed you was the first charge. He received 15 years for the first charge, the BARE MINIMUM.

[Requin]

Look basically he's in jail and it's about time he was.
End of story isn't it???

[HeroForever]

Finally he's back in.

[Donkey]

Who...?