Guilty Simpson
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- marychain0
He serves 3 years...max
or gets out on appeal....I don't like the guy...but he can HARDLY get a fair trial now...everyone is aiming for him
No way he does even CLOSE to 15 years...that is never gonna happen
- and why should he...for this I mean.
Kill your wife....scott free...steal some shit....life sentence? ridiculousmarychain - ridiculousmarychain
- just proves how completely useless our justice system ismarychain
- Useless? haha If anything, this shows how useful it IS. OJ exploiting the fuck out of 'race' for his benefit AND getting ...tommyo
- away with it shows how useless it is. This, what just happened, is pure as the driven snow. Justice.tommyo
- and why should he...for this I mean.
- bolus0
his new book "I did it (again)" will be out soon
- drgss0
He was offered reduced time, but declined and is going to do 30 years
- Point50
Look, the guy's an asshat. He knows what he did was wrong. But, that sentencing for that crime is outrageous. I think they're really stretching that "kidnapping" charge. Without a doubt (in my mind) the system was out to make an example out of him after Jonnie Cock and company made an example out of the system 15 years ago.
- ukit0
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/co…
No athlete in American history has ever suffered such a spectacular fall. Why Simpson chose such a clearly losing path -- in his remarks to the judge, Yale Galanter, one of Simpson's own attorneys, used the term "stupid" at least a dozen times for Simpson's dangerous, ill-conceived plan to recover items from former associates -- might always be an unanswerable question to anyone but him. Another unanswerable question is whether athletes will ever realize that accountability applies to them.
Judging by the Plaxico Burress affair, it appears some still don't. Simpson should have provided the cautionary tale 13 years ago, and again today. As Glass pointed out so powerfully, Simpson could have killed someone, "an innocent tourist or worker." But O.J. Simpson believed in the protection that the hero always seems to get.
"At Mr. Simpson's initial bail hearing, I didn't know if he was arrogant or ignorant or both," Glass said. "During this trial, I got my answer. It was both."
There can be no underestimating the complete undoing of O.J. Simpson. He was once the country's greatest athlete. If Michael Jordan is considered the man who perfected the marriage of sports and marketing, O.J. Simpson is the man who pioneered it. If it is commonplace for athletes to sign multimillion-dollar contracts that now include music, movie and broadcasting deals, it is only because O.J. Simpson introduced to all parties the concept of crossover star power.
And now, it's all over. His dignity and reputation disappeared following his acquittal on a double-murder charge in 1995, and what was left of his freedom, well, that's gone now, too.
The juxtaposition of election night last month and the courtroom on Friday was all too obvious. The scene at Chicago's Grant Park, after Barack Obama won the election and in the process shattered so much of what people were convinced they thought they knew about the black and the white and the possibilities of America, hovered Friday over Simpson, his voice crackling, trying to negotiate the difficult task of sipping water from a Styrofoam cup while handcuffed. Thirteen years ago, it was Simpson who was the face of America. The famous photo of black cheers adjacent to white dejection upon the announcement of the Simpson acquittal served as proof that race was intractable, impossible to break. In 1995, O.J. provided the proof that blacks and whites viewed the idea of justice very, very differently
Forty-six days away from the inauguration of the country's first biracial president, O.J. Simpson was sent to prison Friday, a pathetic anachronism. He left this Nevada courtroom very differently than he did the one in California 13 years ago. Then, race had torn the country apart. Now, there is no position in America that a person of color can't attain. There are no excuses.
The country did not split along racial lines this time. The police were not on trial. A convicted criminal with all the advantages the world could provide went to jail.
Unfortunately, the hero game still lives on, as the post-sentencing scene in the street revealed. But now, it lives on with one fewer player.
- I think they have a typo. It's supposed to be "FAIL," not "fall".dMullins
- dog_opus0
"It's kind of a bittersweet moment knowing that that S.O.B. is going to be in jail for a very long time."
"This monster is where he belongs – behind bars."
Yup.
- Gucci0
oh. and i'd rather see this simpson in shackles.
nude.
- Gucci0
I think simpson is an asshat, but ultimately I don't think the punishment fits the crime. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they've determined the stuff was rightly his. The way he went about getting it was unjustifiable, but three of his accomplices cut deals so he could be nailed to the wall. They've been looking for ways to hammer him for years.
I don't care how many times the judge says it, the outcome here was definitely payback. Many would argue the fact that it's justice being served – I, for one, think it's a backwards way of getting to it. But sure... if the man's a killer – he deserves to sit out a few decades.
- olli1010
Score one for the karma police!
- turk_1820
FUOJ!!
- rylamar0
I read earlier that he told the judge he "didn't think he was doing anything illegal".
BroJ, you stormed a hotel room with a gun. Your hilarious role as Nordberg in Naked Gun will not help them overlook that.
- DrBombay0
jazx is a bit too gleeful.
- That's cause there's another blacky locked up.Glitterati_Duane
- dearhead0
Is it safe to say that simpson's imprisonment is the reason the dow went up today?
- Point50
innocent.
- ghandolf0
The MSN videos of his "I'm Sorry" and the judge's explanation of the charges, verdict, and sentencing can be found here. The judge does a great job at putting it in perspective, and wasn't as hard on him as she could have been. Pretty much, mandatory minimums.
- sputnik20
maybe he'll get the same treatment jeffrey dahmer got in jail