O.J. Simpson sentenced to at least 15 years 53 minutes ago
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to at least 15 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."
The judge said several times that her sentence in the Las Vegas case had nothing to do with Simpson's 1994 acquittal in the slaying of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
"I'm not here to try and cause any retribution or any payback for anything else," Glass said.
Simpson was immediately led away to prison after the judge refused to permit him to go free on bail while he appeals.
Simpson's co-defendant and former golfing buddy, Clarence "C.J. Stewart, also was sentenced to at least 15 years.
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.
Bob 0119 wrote:Coming next fall to NBC: "My Name is Orenthal"
From the Notional Broad Cast channel website:
"A self-deluded victim of society's brutality to the wealthy begins a quest, along with his loyal, if somewhat cognitively challenged brother, Kato to undo the wrongs of his past.
Working from a list written on the back of a dog-earred page from a Buffalo Bills playbook, he moves from person to person correcting the wrongs of his past. He begins by trying to replace the son of a man whom he accidentally killed when his leather glove got caught in the handle of his 3 foot long Bushmaster knife. Let the fun begin!"
"That's a clown question, bro" - - - - - - - - - - Bryce Harper, DC Statesman "But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man That he didn't, didn't already have" - - - - - - - - - - Dewey Bunnell, America
Instead of that closing that he gave he shoulda said.."man for real.. no lie man.. PLEASE BELIEVE ME.. I didn't kill them.. the book was just saying if I had killed them"
"Oh, this charge, not that old charge? Well yea, I ran up in the spot tryna get my stuff back, wouldn't you?"
langleyparkjoe wrote:Oh, and for the record, I'm glad the loser is locked up. I was tired of his stupid butt
I agree. The whole thing was so amazing. The guy was so likable. His movie cameos were hilarious and he was the most fun guy to listen to on MNF. I'd watch those things because of him. Who knew he went from yucking it up to beating the crap out of his wife. Then murdering her and her boyfriend, the Bronco chase, the jury nullification. It was all surreal. It's hard seeing him starting an Earl list though because he's still not taking any responsibility for his actions in any way and isn't showing any signs he ever will. Rotting in jail is the place for him to be. True Karma won't be achieved until someone in jail does to him what he did to his wife. A man's job is to take care of his wife and family, not beat the crap out of them and murder them when they try to be free, of you.
Hail to the Redskins!
Groucho: Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him
Twain: A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way
langleyparkjoe wrote:Oh, and for the record, I'm glad the loser is locked up. I was tired of his stupid butt
I agree. The whole thing was so amazing. The guy was so likable. His movie cameos were hilarious and he was the most fun guy to listen to on MNF. I'd watch those things because of him. Who knew he went from yucking it up to beating the crap out of his wife. Then murdering her and her boyfriend, the Bronco chase, the jury nullification. It was all surreal. It's hard seeing him starting an Earl list though because he's still not taking any responsibility for his actions in any way and isn't showing any signs he ever will. Rotting in jail is the place for him to be. True Karma won't be achieved until someone in jail does to him what he did to his wife. A man's job is to take care of his wife and family, not beat the crap out of them and murder them when they try to be free, of you.
Agreed and the WORST thing about it all, his kids had to go through this crap all because their father is a friggin loser. What a total jerk
