O.J. Simpson Guilty: Kidnapping, Armed Robbery
By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
He stood with lips pursed late Friday night in a Las Vegas courtroom, just like I remember O.J. Simpson did 13 years ago when I watched a Los Angeles jury acquit him of double murder despite overwhelming DNA evidence tying him to the brutal knifings of his ex wife, Nicole, and waiter Ron Goldman.
Again, I watched as the bailiff read the verdict: guilty on all counts for armed robbery and kidnapping stemming from the heist of memorabilia he claimed collectors had stolen from him and he was simply taking back in a Las Vegas hotel room last year, backed by armed goons.
Simpson looked stunned as the verdicts were read, eyes welling up as he pursed his lips again, the wind knocked out, hit harder by Lady Justice than any linebacker in his stunning football career.
With the minimum sentence on all counts totalling more than a decade, the 61 year old Simpson will likely be collecting Social Security in prison. He stood as the verdicts were read, natty in a gray suit, white shirt and tie,
But this time, a GQ wardrobe, charm, and the best lawyers money can buy would not be enough to cut the Juice loose. He’s expected to appeal, but will likely remain behind bars as any appeal winds its way through the courts.
Judge Glass set December 5 as a sentencing date.
October 4th, 2008 at 5:36 am
How are his kids?
I hope they never forget, and they know how much their parents really loved them.
I believe in babies, and how they come about.
This is not a ‘great big news story’…
OJ had a hard life…and now it looks like he’s gonna do hard time.
Yet, he’ll maybe have an easier life with great health care in prison than you or I will.
I wish this world wasn’t all ‘upside down’…but until we get real…and rewrite history and the constitution…
Guess it takes more than it gives.
Kinda like throwing stones, and Bill Mayr (sp?) is an idiot…or maybe he just needs more information.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:04 am
You never really know who your friends are, but you always know who your family is, and where they came from and where they’re going…
EJ,
You know you are more educated than most.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuECcqgwrvo
October 4th, 2008 at 7:08 am
You know I’d much rather remember the ‘good things’… might at last be time to forget the bad…
So much home, so much promise, and beautiful little children thatn are now adults…
Sure hope they can be proud of the good things their Daddy did, and know that no matter how much they huff and puff and blow…mommy will never come back to life.
“Puff The Magic Dragon”
Tho he forever may live behind steel bars…they are mostly just guts and gristle from a time foregone…
Once upon a time, a few men committed crimes that hurt themselves because they wanted to cry, but were never allowed to exhibit that pain….they buried it anyway they could with drugs and crime, or no telling what…
“Sure is nice, though, to think, that they had little girls.
And, by the way there vercict would not have been fair…because in no way, did OJ ‘act’ alone…
At least, I don’t think he did.
October 4th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Dear ART,I do not think any thing to do with this case is fair.all right,people are mad he got off for Goldman and brown,but I do despise set ups.and done by (friends).Before I would sentence OJ I would want a polygraph of each one that was in the room.To many liars,for a man to spend the rest of his life in jail
October 4th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Odd how evil people think, it always catches up with them, one way or another but because they have gotten away with it for so long they are shocked when the wind is finally knocked out of them.
That is why I believe you should be careful how you treat others. And my reasons are selfish, I don’t want bad things to come back and get me for something I did years ago.
God’s vengeance is just, fair but is always served.
I pray they keep this man off the streets for the rest of his life and give him the maximum time allowed, he is a menace to society.
I pray his children will be able to have comfort knowing he can not control them anymore or at least it will be easier for them with him behind bars and they can now start to understand what happen to them so many years ago.
October 4th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
At last the bastard he gets what he deserves!! The Goldman’s and the Brown’s must be elated
October 5th, 2008 at 2:43 am
HIP HIP HOORAY!!!!!
When he admitted to stopping medication so that the “GLOVE DIDN’T FIT” I knew he was guilty…sadly it has taken 13 years to put him in Jail where he belongs!!! {albeit not for murder…but his own foolishness and arrogance!!!}
October 5th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Isabel
You can come over to the PUMA website. Type in partyunitymyass.com
They have up to date news and facts and proof to back it up.
Really a great site. That is why I am proud of the Hillary supporters.
It is a decent place not like the Obama blogs where they go as low as suggesting that Palin’s husband has sexual relations with his daughters. And noone call them out for it.
How can decent human beings associate with a party who allow this kind of discourse.
October 5th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html
Sure was nice that OJ’s kids got raised by one of their parents no matter what.
This I think, might be rare today….
Of course they will have a lot to overcome, and I sure hope it makes them stronger than the rest of us that never experienced what they did.
Not many cared, and I hope they care more than we did.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:36 am
I’m glad this SOB will be spending the rest of his life behind bars. I guess any moneys he stashed away(even in offshore accounts & put in other names) will be used to pay
what is owed to the Brown & Goldman families, to pay off as much of their judgements as possible. Most of the public is convinced he did murder his ex-wife & Ron Goldman. But I think that there is a distinct possibility his oldest son did it. And that OJ spent time in jail to cover up for it.
October 7th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Beverly your insight and fairness is what I miss most here at artharris.com
October 10th, 2008 at 5:22 am
So, should I consider that Ayers was another OJ, that got away with murder and made tons of money, because ‘Law’ or “THE SYSTEM” or “AMERICA” is broken…then he made Obama?
October 10th, 2008 at 5:33 am
…or is really ‘NOT SERIOUS’ and just a bunch of “COMMERCIALISM” OR “advertising” ….pick your own bird of all of its feathers, clean to the bone.
In other words ‘The Election for The President of The United States’ is rather overstated.
VP, too.
Maybe the head of a SchoolBoard, or a local Union organization might be ‘nice’ and maybe ‘important’ to check out…
before we make monsters out of mole hills that talk a good game.
I’m still confused why Martha Stewart is on TV…she was after all found quilty as an ‘Inside Trader’…ain’t that near the same thing as a spy or at least, a witch….I don’t care if she can cook, and spend or rather ‘paid’ with what 6 months in a plushly padded cell…
Now, you know I’m not even gonna say that we give “X-Presidents” zero liability….when they are proven to be scoundrels…and this has been goin’ on and on and on…
October 11th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Both sides have sites that lie and stretch the truth it is not only one side and what we have seen the last few days prooves it
October 24th, 2008 at 3:44 am
In some strange way I’d compare Martha Stewart to OJ…
What is success?
None of are innocent…
Except for those babie…and
Talk about nothin’ that matters, really talk doesn’t does it?
There’s so much crap on TV these days and we pay for the cable, then we pay for commercials…
And, that’s all most of ‘All That’ is…
Isn’t that what ‘is’ ‘is?’
Only difference between us is if before the end of our life, if we make a difference.
Lights in a tube in a box, and what’s left on a desk…
What a shame…really and truly.
Like not remembering a blue angel and what the american media is doing thinking they can do it better than …
Paid Advertising!!!
Good night Chet, Good night Walter…whomever…reminds me of those Waltons.
While we are filling out guts with food…even those, and especially those glutons in New Orleans…we could care less to feed another.
Sweet Dreams.
October 28th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
“They represent the kingdom of God”
If only they knew…guess they will know someday that ‘all that’ is just a waste of energy.
I was just watching a ‘touch’ of MTV…and his high–ness…
like he knows everything…through his music…
wish it was that easy..
He might get better the older he gets…
Better than sports…
If OJ stabbed his wife to death and left her to bleed, can you only imagine his conscience and his kids?
His wife, once upon a time, was a meer mortal…and what is he?
Better than that, guess he felt he was maybe…
I’ll always believe he had help.
So, he played that ‘football’ and ran that ‘ball’ what about real?
A pretty little girl, that had a couple of kids.
Sure hope his kids are better than both of their parents…
Hope that goes on and on and on.
November 29th, 2008 at 6:37 am
And you know there is the possibility that OJ was framed.
After all, it’s all about ‘stuff’ we’ve seen on TV, right?
Maybe it’s just that, just ‘stuff’ to get us to watch, to make money…kinda like ‘Reality’ but ‘Not Really.’
Guess only his hair dresser knows for sure.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
The Simpson trial has been nothing but a great big cover up from the word go by one of the most corrupt counties in the USA, L.A. County.
1.) They concealed the juditha brown telephone records indicating that Nicole was alive at 11:00 PM, the same time OJ was being driven to LAX in the backseat of a limousine. They fought hard to deny OJ and his OMIG investigators legal request to produce them. These are the phone records that JC is referring to when he told judge Ito that the bloody photos should not be shown to the jury because afterall they agreed not to show the telephone records to the jury.
2.) They have concealed Ron Goldman’s 6 inch criminal record maintained in case file 91-C-00362 People of the state of California v. Ronald Lyle Goldman. They have repeatedly denied OMIG requests for review pursuant to Cal. Gov’t Code 6254(f) and exemption from the Calif. Public Records Act that protects the information of confidential informants working with law enforcement in the state of Calif. It is now just as likely that Ron was killed for his long alleged involvement in narcotic trafficking and being a dangerous snitch.
3.) They have lied, along with Fred Goldman, who hid the violent past and significance of a psychotic attempted murderer, former drug kingpin, who Goldman admits in his book “His Name is Ron” was in the midst of the Goldman family less than twenty four hours after the murder of his son, Ron Goldman. This man potentially had some serious animosity towards Fred Goldman for an underhanded act committed by Goldman in this man’s eyes.
4.) They have lied about the so called Bruno Magli shoe soles, which the now allegedly “retired” FBI Special Agent, Wm Bodziak, admits that he could not initially determine were BM shoes and further admits in his college text book, re-edited 18 years later to include one new chapter, the O.J. Simpson Chapter-15, that the SILGA U2887 shoe soles were provided to 19 other shoe brands around the world.
5.) Bodziak also concealed, along with Dr. Henry Lee, that the U2887 shoe soles at the murder site fit neatly inside what Det. Lang described as 11 and 1/2 in. square side walk tiles, Simpson’s large foot is just shy of 13 inches in length. Even the actual European size 46 (alleged size 12) U2887 shoe soles are 3/4 in. shorter than Simpson’s foot.
June 18th, 2009 at 12:46 am
I’ve got the blues…
Sure would like to ‘just believe.’
I would like to believe in ‘art’ and I would like to believe in ‘the bald truth.’
And I’d also like to know, yet really I’d rather not.
June 18th, 2009 at 12:58 am
I still wonder if there was something I could have done better under the circumstances…
Well, I Lived.
March 27th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
I for one do not believe OJ commited the murders of Ron & Nicole.
I think “BIG BEN” said it the best.
There is NO WAY physicaly OJ could of killed 2 people, with such force and so much like a mob type hit.
For years he could of killed Nicole, and he did not have to make it so bloody, and gory.
I think the hit was on RON, and Nicole got in the way. But with the LA police you would never hear anything that could of told OJ was innocent. The LA PD screwed up the whole investagaion so no one will ever really know the truth,.