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O.J. Simpson
Simpson was part of an era when UCLA-USC meant Rose Bowls. (Los Angeles Times /November 13, 2001)
Tribune staff and wire reports 10:37 a.m. CDT, May 15, 2013
LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson, the former football star and actor who was famously acquitted of his ex-wife's 1994 murder, is expected to take the stand today as he seeks a new trial on his 2008 convictions for robbery and kidnapping.
Simpson, who at age 65 has appeared in court for two days in blue jail garb with shortly cropped hair, is currently serving up to 33 years in prison for a 2007 armed robbery in which he claimed he was trying to recover his own sports memorabilia of his storied sports career and murder trial.
Defense lawyers argued that he was trying to recover property that was rightfully his. Simpson has said he didn’t know that the five men who accompanied him to the Palace Station hotel had guns. But he was convicted in the gunpoint robbery and kidnapping of two sports memorabilia dealers.
Simpson hopes that Clark County District Judge Linda Marie Bell will void his convictions and grant him a second chance in court. The hearing is expected to last a week.
Nevada's Supreme Court in 2010 refused to overturn O.J. Simpson's 2008 robbery conviction.
In that appeal his lawyers had argued that Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass failed to properly prevent the robbery and kidnapping trial from being tainted by Simpson's infamy from the murders or thoroughly screen the jury.
In the current case, a new team of lawyers was again seeking a new trial, this time citing incompetence by his trial attorney.
Simpson, who is serving his sentence at Lovelock Correctional Center in northern Nevada, will be eligible for parole in 2017
Simpson’s high-profile trial over the hotel room break-in was not nearly as sensational as his first collision with the justice system. In 1995, he was acquitted in Los Angeles of murdering his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. In a subsequent civil trial, Simpson was found liable for civil damages of $33.5 million.
Reuters and John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
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O.J. Simpson
Simpson was part of an era when UCLA-USC meant Rose Bowls. (Los Angeles Times /November 13, 2001)
Tribune staff and wire reports 10:37 a.m. CDT, May 15, 2013
LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson, the former football star and actor who was famously acquitted of his ex-wife's 1994 murder, is expected to take the stand today as he seeks a new trial on his 2008 convictions for robbery and kidnapping.
Simpson, who at age 65 has appeared in court for two days in blue jail garb with shortly cropped hair, is currently serving up to 33 years in prison for a 2007 armed robbery in which he claimed he was trying to recover his own sports memorabilia of his storied sports career and murder trial.
Defense lawyers argued that he was trying to recover property that was rightfully his. Simpson has said he didn’t know that the five men who accompanied him to the Palace Station hotel had guns. But he was convicted in the gunpoint robbery and kidnapping of two sports memorabilia dealers.
Simpson hopes that Clark County District Judge Linda Marie Bell will void his convictions and grant him a second chance in court. The hearing is expected to last a week.
Nevada's Supreme Court in 2010 refused to overturn O.J. Simpson's 2008 robbery conviction.
In that appeal his lawyers had argued that Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass failed to properly prevent the robbery and kidnapping trial from being tainted by Simpson's infamy from the murders or thoroughly screen the jury.
In the current case, a new team of lawyers was again seeking a new trial, this time citing incompetence by his trial attorney.
Simpson, who is serving his sentence at Lovelock Correctional Center in northern Nevada, will be eligible for parole in 2017
Simpson’s high-profile trial over the hotel room break-in was not nearly as sensational as his first collision with the justice system. In 1995, he was acquitted in Los Angeles of murdering his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. In a subsequent civil trial, Simpson was found liable for civil damages of $33.5 million.
Reuters and John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times