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OJ Simpson to appeal guilty verdict
Calcutta News.Net Saturday 4th October, 2008
OJ Simpson's lawyer says his client, who has been found guilty on kidnapping and armed robbery charges, will appeal the decision of the court.
Outside the court, Yale Galanter, said he wasn’t surprised his client had been forced to pay the price for his notoriety.
A jury in the United States found Simpson guilty on all charges against him, 13 years to the day after Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend.
Judge Jackie Glass denied a request for Simpson to be released on bail and he was led away in handcuffs.
He will be sentenced in December and could face life in prison.
The Las Vegas jury deliberated for more than 13 hours on Friday before reaching their verdict.
Another man, Clarence Stewart, a co-defendant in the case, was also found guilty.
Simpson, 61, was accused of storming into a hotel room with a gun-carrying accomplices and seizing sports memorabilia from two dealers.
Simpson, claimed he had only been recovering personal items which had been stolen from him, and said he was unaware that anyone was armed.
But, four of Simpson's accomplices struck deals with the prosecution and testified against him.
One of the most famous American football players the 1970’s, Simpson was the prime suspect in the brutal murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994.
He was acquitted of murder after a racially charged Los Angeles trial in 1995.
Simpson was subsequently found liable for the deaths in a 1997 civil suit and was ordered to pay damages to the victims' families totaling $US33.5 million.
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Anonymous 10-05-08, 01:35 AM |
OJ Simpson to appeal guilty verdict
Every article on the internet spends more time talking about his prior case instead of the bizarre and contradicting witnesses presented against Simpson on the Las Vegas case. This will change the way “creditable witnesses” are used in court cases. The future of court cases will be sleeze and nothing near finding justice. I find it extremely hard to believe that the jury had absolutely no “shadow of a doubt” on the facts presented by these extremely questionable witnesses of this case. The US Jury System is filled with shame.
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Anonymous 10-05-08, 06:14 PM |
When all else fails play the race card
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Nay-Nay 10-08-08, 02:44 PM |
It's Called Justice When It's Just Us-Black People
Ever since O.J. Simpson was accused of his wife’s murder,white racist bigots wanted him to go down. The evidence they had was bogish, but they still wanted him to pay. This is the opportunity they had been waiting for. Something as petty as a robbery now seals his fate. Ron Goldman didn’t give a damn about his son’s death, all he wanted was money. Whatever the outcome, those who dig ditches for someone else will be the one who falls into them. I saw the delight of the white faces on the jury. You mean to tell me that they couldn’t find not one african american to serve on the jury? If that ain’t racial, then what is it? There is a higher judge over all, and his name is JESUS. He will have the last say. In fact, that’s the only person us black people can trust because our so-called justice system was designed to play games with our fate. It’s been that way since slavery. O.J. may make some stupid mistakes, and we all do, but this thing about life in prison for armed robbery shows the rascim in it. They needed to bump up the charges in order to give him a life sentence for the murder of Nicole Simpson who was poor white trailer trash when O.J. married her. If O.J. Simpson could kill two people at the same time which they couldn’t prove, then on what growns could they have found him guilty? It doesn’t matter, she was white.
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Anonymous 2 10-07-08, 09:58 AM |
What you think he is innocent? You think he didn’t know that the others were carrying guns? He took the law into his own hands. He could have just as easily called the police. He’s getting what he deserves. He got away with one crime.
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CARLOS LINGUINI 10-07-08, 04:19 PM |
BYE BYE
IN YOUR CAGE, FELON!
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Anonymous 10-08-08, 02:55 PM |
She was HOT and white
Nay-Nay;107905: Ever since O.J. Simpson was accused of his wife’s murder,white racist bigots wanted him to go down. The evidence they had was bogish, but they still wanted him to pay. This is the opportunity they had been waiting for. Something as petty as a robbery now seals his fate. Ron Goldman didn’t give a damn about his son’s death, all he wanted was money. Whatever the outcome, those who dig ditches for someone else will be the one who falls into them. I saw the delight of the white faces on the jury. You mean to tell me that they couldn’t find not one african american to serve on the jury? If that ain’t racial, then what is it? There is a higher judge over all, and his name is JESUS. He will have the last say. In fact, that’s the only person us black people can trust because our so-called justice system was designed to play games with our fate. It’s been that way since slavery. O.J. may make some stupid mistakes, and we all do, but this thing about life in prison for armed robbery shows the rascim in it. They needed to bump up the charges in order to give him a life sentence for the murder of Nicole Simpson who was poor white trailer trash when O.J. married her. If O.J. Simpson could kill two people at the same time which they couldn’t prove, then on what growns could they have found him guilty? It doesn’t matter, she was white.
OJ was black ugly rich and way to smug and cocky.
No one likes an uppity smug N!663R.
He was also jealous and beat his wife over and over.
I have yet to see mixed marriages like this lead to anything but pain in the long run and even with this as a lesson the mistake is made over and over.
Like it or not OJ is little more then a well paid thug and like all thugs he was easy to manipulate.
Either way justice will be served and this piece of dung is going to jail.
Cry me a river OJ deserves jail and far more.
He deserves to die drunk poor and hated in some gutter in skid row.
Good riddance to this criminal scum.
THE ABOVE POST WILL DRIVE BLACKS CRAZY BUT IT IS THE TRUTH.
OJ had nothing to do with his own race until he was in trouble let him go already.
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Anonymous 10-09-08, 09:39 AM |
Unregistered;107907: OJ was black ugly rich and way to smug and cocky.
No one likes an uppity smug N!663R.
He was also jealous and beat his wife over and over.
I have yet to see mixed marriages like this lead to anything but pain in the long run and even with this as a lesson the mistake is made over and over.
Like it or not OJ is little more then a well paid thug and like all thugs he was easy to manipulate.
Either way justice will be served and this piece of dung is going to jail.
Cry me a river OJ deserves jail and far more.
He deserves to die drunk poor and hated in some gutter in skid row.
Good riddance to this criminal scum.
THE ABOVE POST WILL DRIVE BLACKS CRAZY BUT IT IS THE TRUTH.
OJ had nothing to do with his own race until he was in trouble let him go already.
Well your about to have a uppity ...... for President how do you explain that.
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Anonymous 10-14-08, 12:08 AM |
Where is Justice in the Jury System in America?
This is the most disgusting verdict I have ever seen or heard of. Has there every been an ALL BLACK JURY TO DELIBERATE A CRIMINAL CASE OF A WHITE DEFENDANT? The Appeal process should nullify this verdict. This was nothing short of Mr. Simpson’s prior trial.
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game 10-17-08, 01:20 AM |
Anonymoous
What did you People Expected when the judge keep dnying the defense everything they were entitled to. She was full of shit from the beginning to end.But it only gonna make it harder for them when he gets his appeal. And that retarded racist looking jury that bullshit explanation they indicated for the reson he was found guilt was because they saw a bullshit video of OJ putting the merchandise into his car trunk, well it belongs to him why not? Jackasses that dont means he is guilty because the issue was whether he had known about the gun being with them, there is no evident he knew that ,why? because he was set up Blue eye devils.
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uriel 12-05-08, 02:53 PM |
Sentenced and good riddance
infamous OJ Simpson sentenced today. Good riddance. And we all know he was guilty for murdering Nicole and Ron. He got off and that was a travesty of justice, but justice came back to exact what he had coming. To be put away in a cell to rot day after day. It would be fitting for him to die there or commit sucide...he should not be allowed freedom ever again.
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Nay Nay 12-11-08, 03:56 AM |
Nay Nay is a racist
Hey Nay Nay, have you ever bothered researching the facts of the OJ case or are you just pulling the race card out of your ass? OJ is a murdering S.O.B. The trial of the century WAS about race. It’s a about freeing a black murderer because he was a famous black person. Morons like you were more interested in freeing a black person than justice. Read up on the the words of wisdom of Martin Luther King and judge people by the content of their character, not the color of thier skin. The glove fit! Read up on the case.
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elvis oceano califorina 06-12-09, 09:16 PM |
the turth
oj is 100% not gilty leve him alone let him be and be with his family and love ones goaway pepole just tritake frm a grate star simpson is a grate person just let him go home and be free frm all bs ur trin to take frm him and his fame
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