OJ Simpson sentenced to 15 years

About time!

LAS VEGAS – 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.

 

I saw that also, they said that he would be singled out from the other guys there and have his own private room. He gets 1 hour a day to have visitors and 3 meals a day. I think they said that he is eligible for parole in 6 years. I guess his luck finally ran out!

 

I just heard Simpson's comments on the radio, sorry but I couldn't help but laugh uncontrollaby.

 

I thought it was 8? Anywho...no tears from me. And yes, I agree that his closing statement was a humorous act.

 

Since he had a ***** for a Judge, he will appear the verdict and sentence. A little work and they will find the skeltons in her closet. I won't be surprised if he walks with in 2 years..

 

He will be out soon enough.

 

what a doucebag. he gets a second chance and blows it. classic

 

2 Little 2 Late !!

 

I guess Karma came back for him

 

They had his number this time.

 

YUP! Ya know that the judge and jury wanted to put this dirtbag down and they did it!

 

Yup Pete, Karma's a beyotch! They even waited 13+ years to get him but they did!

 

What a dumb ass. He really screwed up.

 

His lame ass, crocodile tear plea for leniency got slammed in the judge's first statement too!

 

Darth, I couldn't agree with you more.

OJ's in trouble, well do tell!
His pleas to the judge didn't sell.
He got away with murder in LA
But in jail in Vegas he's gonna stay
Until he's sharing a room with Johnnie in hell.

 

Karma's a b*tch...

 

Dude came flying out of his office driveway on the phone one day and missed running over my foot by an inch! He certainly would have had hell to pay!

 

I have my own personal OJ story. And, there is a Ferrari twist.

When this OJ stuff went down, a lot of people forget it was pretty close the World Cup Soccer events in LA. There was an Italian car show in Pasedana to celebrate Forza Italia. At the time, I owned a repair shop and one of my customers wanted his Lusso at the show but he was going to be out of town. So, I trailered it up there, sat around until the end of the show, and then took it back to my shop.

It's about 5 something in the evening and I hadn't heard any news that day at all. I'm driving to get on the 405 freeway to go home and behind me, two highway patrol cycles come flying past me at over 100 mph. I look ahead and I see the freeway overpass in front of me. Above the freeway is a line of maybe 20 helicopters hovering and really slowly moving up the freeway. I have no idea what the hell is going on but the cops seal off the freeway so I can't get on. So, I take the long way home.

I finally get home and I turn on the news. It was freaking OJ in that white bronco that they helicopters were following. I went directly underneath the idiot. So, that was my close encounter of the OJ kind.

 

I have one too. Ron Goldman was my room mate's best friend and he used to crash on our couch all the time. He and his father absolutely hated each other and would fist fight regularly... Ron would get tickets, let them go to warrant and Fred wouldn't bail him out. I also drove Nicole's Mondial on one of Ron's many visits with it. i was at his funeral. My room mate was at the opening statement hearing in 1994 and Judge Ito told him to take off his sunglasses in the court on camera. He also blurted out "REDRUM" in the courtroom on the first day of the civil trial in Santa Monica.

 

Wow, what an insider knows!

Never heard of any of this before.

 

Yeah, I always figured Fred is/was living with some serious regret along with the loss.

 

OJ could walk in 5 if granted probation.

At any rate, it's all very sad for the families involved.

 

Actually, they said 9 minimum.

 

when this story first broke, i heard he could be out in 3 years, then 6, then 12, but now it sounds like it will be 9 years at least before he's eligible for probation.

 

Too bad it's not 90. In any event, judges are elected officials and they appoint parole board members so the consensus is that no one would ever reelect a judge who appointed the yahoo who sprung OJ. He will be denied many times before he ever gets out.