O.J. Simpson set to return to court

[steve2470]

Source: CBS Sports

Former NFL star O.J. Simpson will have his day in court. Again. The Hall of Fame running back is expected in Las Vegas court on May 13 for a five-day hearing where he will argue that he deserves a new trial following his 2008 conviction on armed robbery and kidnapping charges.

Simpson, 65, is alleging that his lawyer botched the 2008 case and provided poor representation and therefore, he's deserving of a new trial.

Simpson's hearing will focus on 19 specific points where he felt his lawyer, Yale Galanter, failed him. Among those points: Simpson said Galanter knew of his plans to confront two collectibles dealers in Las Vegas because Simpson had told Galanter in a dinner the night before the incident. Simpson also said that Galanter told him the incident was legal as long as Simpson didn't trespass on anyone's property or use physical force.

The former 11-year NFL veteran also said that Galanter never told him about a prosecution offer that could have limited Simpson's time behind bars to as little as two-years. Simpson has been behind bars since October 2008 and is in the middle of a sentence that requires him to spend nine-to-33 years in prison.

Read more: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/eye-on-football/22227131/oj-simpson-set-to-return-to-court

[a kennedy]

1. Simpson, 65,

Wow, hard think he's 65.

[gopiscrap]

2. I believe that Simpson's harsh sentance

in this case is more for the attitude of most that he got away with murder than the actual facts of this particular case.

[John2]

9. Even so,

I find his attitude about confronting someone in private, after just getting off for murder, reckless at most. It seems like he thought that he could get away with anything because he is O.J. Simpson. Whatever support he had, he probably lost it.

[UTUSN]

3. Women (in my neck of the woods) cheered

when his "not guilty" verdict was read. Our whole work crew went to a restaurant with a t.v. and, I was shocked that the cheering was mostly from women. (I would have been disgusted if ANYBODY/men cheered.)

[Locut0s]

12. Were the women black?

Not that I'm saying black people cheer when murderers get off but I know much of the black community at the time had conflicting feelings over the OJ trial. I remember a famous standup , can't remember who, told a joke about all the black people secretly cheered when he was found innocent even though they knew he was guilty. Payback for all the whites who got off for killing blacks and the thousands of blacks who got harsher sentences than they deserved. I'm not saying it was universal but I know the sentiment existed.

If they were white women, then I don't get it.

[UTUSN]

14. no.

[Locut0s]

15. WTF?

[marble falls]

4. Man up, OJ, you did the crime, you do the time.

[Locut0s]

13. There's no such thing as maning up for sociopaths. There is only inconvenience to them. nt

[marble falls]

16. We make our personalities feel like they are the center of the universe in the US....

and have the right to anything they whim over or can get away with.

[Politicalboi]

5. It should say

Murderer OJ Simpson will have his day in court. Guilty. I don't care how many Mark Furman's there were. He was and IS still a murderer to me. The jury was just too dumb to see it. When the jury foreman comes out and says "We was deliberated" something is wrong.

[IcyPeas]

7. I remember that juror

I thought their words were "we got deliberated". I don't know if it was the foreman (it was a female juror). I guess it was their "talking point". These were people who could not wrap their heads around DNA evidence.

[roguevalley]

11. I remember that the DNA guy they had touted DNA as the cure for all ills in trials

and then went to work for Simpson saying that it wasn't. It rather messed up the evidence enough that a lot of people sort of wondered, well ... what it it? Is it right or wrong?

[cpwm17]

17. Also, male juror, Lionel Cryer, flashed O. J. Simpson a black-power salute right after the verdict.

Justice wasn't served.

[Zoeisright]

6. He's proof that only

the good die young.

[Skittles]

8. I wonder what his children think of him

they have to know he butchered their mother

[Swede Atlanta]

10. I have zero empathy for him.......

I support this right to seek a redress if the court determines there is sufficient evidence to warrant a new trial.

But based on the facts as I know them he deserved to be convicted and serve a significant sentence.

While I personally believe he murdered his wife and her friend, I also believe in separating that case from the Nevada case. Each one has to be looked at on its own merits.

These appeals for a new trial on the basis of incompetent representation rarely, very rarely result in a retrial.

[Ter]

18. I can't believe they gave him that many years for stealing

Technically, he was a first time offender.

Edit: Never mind. I didn't know he kidnapped!

[Daniel537]

19. Well the kidnapping charge was a bit of a stretch.

I believe he said something akin to "everybody stay where you are" which the prosecution used to charge him with kidnapping. Basically they threw everything they could at him, no matter how dubious. But yeah i think his sentence was much too harsh, especially when you consider that the only person who actually had a gun during the robbery copped a plea and didn't even do one day in prison. The only person they were interested in locking away was OJ, otherwise this case might not have even gone to court.

[gvstn]

20. I agree kidnapping was a stretch. It was armed robbery/burglary.

I don't really have a problem with him asking the sentence/conviction be revisited under the circumstances.
Personally, I feel safer with him in jail. He has a bad temper, a sense of entitlement and a history of physical violence. Exactly, the type of person I believe laws and prisons are designed to keep locked up for society's protection. But since it was his first conviction he should have gotten 7 years max. even in Nevada.