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gwen

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:11 pm

O.J. Will Go to Trial!

After four hours of deliberating, Justice of the Peace Joseph Bonaventure has decided that O.J. Simpson, along with two other co-defendants, will stand trial for twelve criminal counts associated with armed robbery. The counts include robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy, kidnapping and burglary.

The other three co-defendants in the case have all testified against O.J. and have accepted plea deals. Simpson has plead not guilty.

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:13 pm

Re: O.J. Will Go to Trial!

gwen wrote:

Thanks, Gwen.....I was wondering what the judge would do.

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gwen

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:15 pm

Re: O.J. Will Go to Trial!

AC wrote:

Thanks, Gwen.....I was wondering what the judge would do.

Y/W. Just happened to hit tmz at the right time...

Glad he does have to go to trial.

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gwen

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:30 pm

Judge Rules O.J. Simpson Will Stand Trial in Alleged Memorabilia Heist
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

LAS VEGAS — A judge has ruled that O.J. Simpson will face kidnapping and robbery charges in a sports memorabilia heist.

Simpson's defense argued Wednesday that charges should be dropped after the close of testimony in a preliminary hearing on allegations that the former football star and armed companions stole items from sports memorabilia dealers.

Defense attorney Gabriel Grasso argued to Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Joe M. Bonaventure that it was unclear whether the prosecution was contending that the alleged kidnapping was the act of luring the two dealers to a hotel room or the actions that occurred during a confrontation in the room.

Grasso also contended that the kidnapping counts did not meet the requirements of law.

"This is clearly overcharging," Grasso said.

Simpson also had no intent to steal because he only wanted to get back items he reasonably believed were his, Grasso said.

Bonaventure was to decide at the end of the hearing whether Simpson, Clarence "C.J." Stewart and Charles "Charlie" Ehrlich should go to trial on 12 charges, including kidnapping and armed robbery.

A conviction on the kidnapping count could result in a sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole. An armed robbery conviction could mean mandatory prison time.

Before arguments began, Simpson stood and confirmed that he would not present evidence on his own behalf during the hearing.

Earlier, sports memorabilia dealer Alfred Beardsley, 45, testified that he tried to make clear to an "irritated" O.J. Simpson during the hotel room confrontation that he had not stolen items from the former football star.

Beardsley said he and another dealer, Bruce Fromong, agreed to a hotel room meeting with a memorabilia buyer he only was told would be a Las Vegas businessman

When the hotel room door opened, a group of men including Simpson entered, he said.

"Somebody yelled out, 'Police,"' said Beardsley, who cast furtive glances at Simpson from time to time during his testimony.

"I was ordered to stand up. I was searched for weapons," he said.

Beardsley said one man shoved Fromong into a corner at gunpoint and he saw another gun in the waistband of another man in the group. He said the only man he recognized was Simpson.

Clark County District Attorney David Roger asked Beardsley what Simpson said to him.

"He was just basically a little upset," Beardsley said. "I think he felt violated and gave me a lecture."

Beardsley added later, "I was trying to calm him down because I know that he wanted some answers. I could see it in his face. He wanted an explanation why we were there with his property."

He described Simpson as "just irritated."

"I think he was hurt that his property was there," Beardsley said.

"Did you steal that property?" the prosecutor asked.

"No," the witness said. "I wanted to make clear to him that I did not steal that property."

He said he told Simpson the memorabilia came from a former partner of Fromong, Mike Gilbert.

Beardsley said he was ordered to pack up the memorabilia, which had been laid out on a bed, and that the group left. He then called 911.

In cross-examination, defense attorney Yale Galanter pressed Beardsley on a TV interview in which he said he only saw one gun during the incident, and on whether he had sought to make money off the incident.

Beardsley, who is in custody at the Clark County jail on a California parole violation, testified the violation stemmed from a domestic violence incident.

Michael "Spencer" McClinton testified Tuesday that Simpson asked him to bring guns and told him to use them to intimidate Beardsley and Fromong when the group entered the hotel room.

"He said, `Show them your weapon and look menacing,"' McClinton said.

The district attorney asked McClinton if he was paraphrasing.

"He said that," McClinton replied. "There's no doubt in my mind. He said that."

Minutes later, Simpson lawyer Grasso tried to show that McClinton, 49, changed his story after becoming the third co-defendant to accept a plea deal and agree to testify against Simpson.

In 85 pages of transcript of a voluntary statement he gave police on Oct. 15, Grasso asked, did McClinton ever tell investigators that Simpson told him to bring a gun?

"No," McClinton responded. "I guess I didn't."

Simpson, 60, has maintained that no guns were displayed during the confrontation, that he never asked anyone to bring guns and that he did not know anyone had guns. He has said he intended only to retrieve items that had been stolen from him by a former agent, including the suit he wore the day he was acquitted of murder in 1995 in the slayings of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

Simpson's golfing buddy Walter "Goldie" Alexander testified Tuesday that Simpson instructed McClinton to draw his weapon before the group entered the room at the Palace Station hotel-casino.

Alexander said he kept a weapon that McClinton gave him tucked into the waistband of his suit, but as soon as he saw McClinton waving his weapon and shouting orders at the memorabilia dealers he realized he was taking part in an armed robbery.

Later, Galanter elicited from Alexander that he offered at one point to slant his testimony in Simpson's favor if he was paid.

"I really felt that he was set up," Alexander said. "So I felt like I could lean toward that angle rather than telling the exact truth."

Alexander said he was never paid.

"So truth got left at the door because your testimony is for sale?" Galanter asked.

"I told the truth," the witness said glumly.

Charles Cashmore, who also struck a deal with prosecutors, testified against Simpson last week.

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Spuds

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 1:50 pm

This is such a CROCK!..

So they want another bite of the apple since OJ wasn't convicted in 1995, 12 years ago, so now they want to send him to prison for life on this crap.

Sheesh! GMAFB

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LISA

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:47 pm

O.J says anybody else wouldn't be in court
'I got like a bull's-eye on my front, dollar sign on my back'

Associated Press
updated 7:57 p.m. ET, Thurs., June. 26, 2008

LAS VEGAS - O.J. Simpson says an ambitious Nevada prosecutor is pressing a kidnapping and armed robbery case against him that even the alleged victims don't want to pursue.

"If I was anybody else, I wouldn't be going to court,'' Simpson told a reporter for Fargo, N.D., radio station KFGO who interviewed him late Tuesday at a Fargo cigar bar. Simpson was vacationing in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota.

"How many trials have you ever heard of where both of the victims say they don't want this guy to go to jail, they don't want to go to court, and you still go to court?'' Simpson asked. "It's only me.

"But unfortunately for me,'' Simpson said, "I got like a bull's eye on my front, dollar sign on my back, you get involved with people who want to be governor and stuff.''

Clark County District Attorney David Roger declined comment.

Simpson's lawyer, Yale Galanter, said Thursday that Simpson was venting his frustration about facing trial Sept. 8 in Las Vegas on charges carrying the possibility of prison time.

"I think O.J.'s comments show how totally frustrated he is over this incident that involves family heirlooms that were stolen from him by some very nefarious characters,'' Galanter said.

Galanter also downplayed Simpson's comments about the prosecutor, saying that he had the "utmost respect'' for Roger and another prosecutor in the case, Chris Owens.

"I have no reason to believe their motives in this case have been anything less than ethical and honorable,'' Galanter said.

Simpson and two co-defendants, Ehrlich and Clarence "C.J.'' Stewart, have pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon charges stemming from allegations they robbed two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas casino hotel room last September. Simpson has denied any guns were involved.

A kidnapping conviction carries the possibility of life in prison with the possibility of parole. An armed robbery conviction would mean mandatory prison time.

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gwen

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:07 am

O.J. Simpson Pulled Over on Way to Las Vegas
Monday, September 08, 2008

LAS VEGAS — The Nevada Highway Patrol says O.J. Simpson was stopped while driving, questioned and let go on his way to Las Vegas.

Trooper Kevin Honea said a person who talked with Simpson at a gas station Sunday called 911 to say Simpson appeared to be intoxicated.

Simpson was on his way to Las Vegas, where jury selection begins Monday for his kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy trial.

Honea says troopers stopped Simpson driving a Chevrolet Suburban on Interstate 15 south of Las Vegas.

They found no signs that he had been drinking, and let him go.

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gwen

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:09 am

Jury Selection to Begin in O.J. Simpson Robbery CaseMonday, September 08, 2008

LAS VEGAS — Nearly a year after O.J. Simpson walked into a casino hotel room intent on reclaiming some sports memorabilia, lawyers in his robbery-kidnapping trial are finally set to begin picking a jury.

What figures to be a lengthy jury selection is scheduled to start Monday morning in a Nevada court for the fallen NFL star, actor and advertising pitchman, and his remaining co-defendant, Clarence "C.J" Stewart, a 54-year-old golfing buddy from North Las Vegas.

Both men have pleaded not guilty to 12 charges stemming from a heated encounter last September with two sports collectibles dealers peddling Simpson memorabilia at a Las Vegas hotel-casino.

Simpson said last fall that he put his faith in the jury system and was confident of an acquittal — a conviction could put him away for life.

"If I have any disappointment it's that I wish a jury was here," Simpson said in November, after a contentious four-day preliminary hearing in which prosecution witnesses were cast as opportunists, pimps, con artists and crooks out to make a buck off him.

"As always, I rely on the jury system," he said.

Simpson was stopped by Nevada Highway Patrol troopers Sunday on Interstate 15 south of Las Vegas after someone he spoke with at a gas station reported he appeared to be intoxicated, NHP Trooper Kevin Honea said.

"No signs of alcohol were detected, and he was on his way," Honea said Monday. "It looks like the only thing he did was be nice to somebody at a gas station."

Lawyer Robert Lucherini lost several last-ditch bids to get the Nevada Supreme Court to postpone or sever Stewart's trial from Simpson's.

He argued Stewart can't get a fair trial before a jury sure to know about Simpson's acquittal in Los Angeles in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. After the "Trial of the Century," Simpson was found civilly liable for the deaths and ordered to pay a $33.5 million judgment to Goldman's family.

In March, Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass postponed the trial from April until September to give the defense more time to prepare. In granting the delay, the judge acknowledged it took longer than expected for prosecutors to analyze and enhance tape recordings, transcripts and fingerprints and turn them over to the defense to prepare for trial.

Prosecutors, defense lawyers and Glass have used 26-page questionnaires to identify prospective jurors with biases and cut a jury pool of 500 to fewer than 250.

Jury selection still could take a week or longer, court officials said.

When the 12-member panel and four alternates are seated, the prosecution will tell them that Simpson and Stewart walked into the casino hotel room on Sept. 13, 2007, with four other men and robbed the sports collectibles peddlers at gunpoint of items that Simpson said had been stolen from him.

Simpson, 61 and now living in Miami, maintains he didn't ask anyone to bring guns and that he didn't know anyone in the room was armed.

The stakes are high. Simpson and Stewart have pleaded not guilty to the charges, which include burglary, coercion and assault with a deadly weapon. A robbery conviction would mean mandatory prison time. A kidnapping conviction carries the possibility of life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Four of the men who accompanied Simpson — Charles Cashmore, Walter "Goldie" Alexander, Michael "Spencer" McClinton and Charles Ehrlich — pleaded to lesser felony charges and agreed to testify for the prosecution.

But Simpson defense attorney Yale Galanter got Alexander to admit that he would have slanted his testimony in Simpson's favor if the price was right.

"Alexander offered to sell his testimony to the highest bidder," Galanter said as he prepared for trial. He promised to expose troubled backgrounds of the witnesses lined up against Simpson.

"This is a cast of very nefarious characters," Galanter said. "And the truth is, these items were not memorabilia. The law has always provided a right, dating back to our founding fathers, to recover personal property."

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