Comments on: O J Simpson Got Screwed

By: buffaloranger

buffaloranger — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:10:57 +0000

First it happened in a hotel room. Not a house.

Does anyone else think the charges were trumped up because it was OJ? Armed robbery yes. The other charges were a joke. Kidnapping??? Really?? Because he wouldn’t let the guys leave the hotel room? Is that what kidnapping is now days. Not allowing your victims to leave while you are robbing them is kidnapping?? That is friggin’ insulting to those that have REALLY been kidnapped and held against their will for days or weeks on end. Trespassing!?? Because presumably after they pulled the gun they were asked to leave the hotel room and didn’t? Seriously??

His buddy, under OJ’s direction, pulled a gun on 2 memorabilia dealers that possessed some of OJ’s stolen property. The one and only charge should have been armed robbery.

OJ made two big mistakes. 1. He shouldn’t have been there, he should have sent his buddies in to get his stolen stuff back. 2. If he did go, there was no need to bring a gun. Him and his buddies outnumbered the two “thiefs”.

OJ isn’t the smartest guy. He was set up. That one dirtbag that arranged the meeting knew exactly what OJ was planning. And he recorded it all. Set up like bowling pins. He must have thought he’d be able to make money off it somehow. Don’t get me wrong, OJ deserved to go to jail for this. But not for the amount of time he was sentenced. Too many people have gotten a perverse thrill out of this. The first trial OJ was famous. That may have worked in his benefit. This trial he was infamous, BIG DIFFERENCE, and that worked against him for sure. The charges would have much different against anyone but OJ.

By: smokinjoe

smokinjoe — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:06:37 +0000

What we see is more the difference between high priced lawyers vs. low priced lawyers.

In his first go-around, he had some of the best men on the planet doing what they did best.

This time around, he had a team where their case ended with ‘only’ wanting 6 years for OJ (basically throwing in the towel…). In my opinion, he’s been sentence the correct amount - he attempted to rob someone, and his used a gun. Plus the fact that his accomplices basically all spilled the beans, well, it’s hard to defend against that.

His mind was warped and for some reason he thought he wasn’t doing anything wrong. Unfortunately, that’s a dangerous thing to happen to someone, especially if he really did get away with murder, who knows how far he’d go ‘next’ time.

By: Joshua Godinez

Joshua Godinez — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:51:26 +0000

OJ committed those murders. I used to listen to the daily audio of the court proceedings and watched some of the in-court stuff, too. Trying to make a case based on reports not being logged or filed correctly was minutia, not reasonable doubt. I’d listen to the court proceedings then at home hear the pundits talking about how great the defense was and I tried to figure out which court case they were watching because it wasn’t what I had heard. That case mentally scarred me. I had a view of our country all trying to push out the old attitudes of racism and get to a color blind society. The reaction to the acquittal of a brutal murderer made me feel like it was 1965 and I’ve never been able to reacquire the hope of my early youth. I hate OJ’s defense team with a burning rage. I worry about what I’d do if I ever saw them in person. Barry Sheck is my lifelong enemy and I won’t ever use LegalZoom no matter how convenient it is because Shapiro is associated with it. I had to get used to the idea of sharing a planet with OJ long ago just as I must share it with other evil people. He is evil incarnate willing to sacrifice good relations between entire races of people for his own freedom.

That said, I don’t care about this Las Vegas case except that he made the mistake of getting outside of his celebrity bubble and a court that would convict him when it, again, had overwhelming evidence against him. He thought it couldn’t happen because he’d gotten away before. He found out differently to my surprise. He already damaged the entire country. Whatever sentence he received is unable to bring justice to that act. 3 years or 30, I just don’t care. So, I guess perversely I kind of agree with Eric. Sentence him commensurate with the crime he was convicted of. You can’t make up for the past and you don’t want to damage the future.

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By: Micky 2

Micky 2 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:56:53 +0000

I actually wasnt aware of the plea until the day of his sentencing.
What was blowing my mind was that this was not an issue up front. Had it been, it would of cancled out all the bloviating by the pundits who were all talking Karma and all these other things that attributed to his entencing.

If the evidence is as overwhelming as it was in this case and with audio and all the paticipants flipping on you and you challenege charges like armed robbery, kidnapping, 9 charges all together, it doesnt make the D.A. too happy to have to spend all that time and money pursuing the inevitable.
It pee’s them off big time.
The deal is if you fight this and loose were gonna give it all to you.
If you come clean and make this easier for all of us we’ll do the same for you.
Hate to say it but Jerseys point is pretty true.
In a playground like Vegas where hotel room invasion robberies are probably contemplated and carried out more than any other part of the world you have to send a message that this kind of crime is one that should recieve less tolerance than most.

By: parrothead

parrothead — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:55:55 +0000

Micky, Actually I was unaware that he turned down a plea deal. If he did he was stupid, but probably figured if I could skate on the first one why not on this one. Truth is I really did not follow this one at all, as I long ago put him off my radar screen so I only heard drips and drabs abotu what was happening. If you noticed my lukewarm comment earlier, I really wasn’t outraged by his sentencing only noting that it seems harsher than we usually see for a first offense. That view may be jaded by living in California.

By: Jersey McJones

Jersey McJones — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:42:16 +0000

I’m with Micky 1000% on this one. You guys need to look up the sentencing standards for what OJ did. He’s lucky to have gotten what he got. Armed robbery and such are very serious offences, especially in Vegas. He should have plead out. Come to think of it, I now understand why the judge considered OJ’s ignorance a mitigating factor - it wasn’t his ignorance of the significane of the crime, which he should have darn well known, but his ignorance of that fact that he, as Micky said, is a “narcissistic sociopath.” And OJ’s also lucky he didn’t do it back in the ol’ days of Vegas, or he’d have wound up under the pavement of a casino parking lot.

JMJ

By: Micky 2

Micky 2 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:34:52 +0000

Parrot, ya know I love ya , but why are you and so many others not mentioning or aware that OJ could of pleaded out on this only recieved a couple of years ? Thats right, only 2 to 3 years.
His past played little if no role at all in his sentencing. Had he taken the deal no one would be having a discussion as to whether or not his past played a role in the sentencing
This narcissistic sociopath thinks hes invincible to the law and thought that any plea would be an unecessary admission.

By: parrothead

parrothead — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:03:25 +0000

I am a USC Trojan fan and loved O.J. when he played in the NFL. I too wanted to believe he was innocent of the murders but, unfortunately, I believe he did it. I also believe that due to incompetent prosecution and a District Attorney who had his eye on the governors office he was properly acquitted. The defense was able to provide enough reasonable doubt for him to be found not guilty (not the same thing as innocent). I think there was evidence that was public knowledge but not presented to the jury and evidence discovered later and used in the civil trial which might have resulted in a conviction. That doesn’t even mention the whole glove demonstration fiasco.

Okay now to the point at hand. I tend to agree with Eric that it sounds like he got a pretty hard sentence for what seemed like a minor offense. Of course that assumes he winds up serving closer to the 33 years than the 9 years. I do believe public knowledge of his other acts played a role in sentencing. I am not really sure if that is appropriate or not. I do believe a lot of factors are typically used in sentencing not necessarily only criminal convictions. It goes back to Al Capone doing life for tax evasion. Would Arnold Castle accountant from Des Moines get that sentence, probably not but that doesn’t make it unjust.

By: map106

map106 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:09:12 +0000

Oh, and you write:

“Our system of justice is not perfect, but it is all we have.”

Why is that passable for an acquittal and not for a conviction?