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Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008 | 10:49 a.m.
Photo of O.J. Simpson after his conviction.
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State authorities are recommending O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant each be sentenced to 18 years in prison for the armed robbery and kidnapping of two sports-memorabilia dealers, according to documents filed Tuesday.
Lawyers for the former NFL star and Clarence "C.J" Stewart filed briefs asking Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass for minimum prison terms of six years when she sentences the two men Friday.
A brief filed by Stewart's lawyer refers to a confidential recommendation by the state Parole and Probation Division that the two men serve sentences totaling 18 years for two counts of kidnapping with a deadly weapon and two counts of armed robbery.
Kidnapping convictions call for mandatory prison time, and each count carries a six-year sentence. Armed-robbery charges each carry three-year sentences.
"We would like the judge to take our recommendation to heart and sentence (Simpson) to the minimum, six years," Simpson lawyer Gabriel Grasso said after filing his brief.
Glass is not bound by the report and could sentence each of the men to the maximum term of life in prison.
The brief filed by Stewart's lawyer, Brent Bryson, asked the judge to disregard the state's recommendation.
The brief indicates the state is recommending concurrent terms for the other charges for which the two men were convicted, including conspiracy, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and coercion.
A jury Oct. 3 convicted Simpson and Stewart of all 12 charges against them in the Sept. 13, 2007, confrontation.
Simpson, 61, and Stewart, 54, are in the Clark County jail in Las Vegas.
Simpson was famously acquitted of murder in Los Angeles in the 1994 slaying of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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Is the eighteen year recommendation for trying to get his momentos back or for not being convicted of killing his ex-wife and Goldman?
Obama should fix this.
OJ is being railroaded.
What goes around does come back around and bites ya.
Guess he will serve and be out in late 70s, the other dude will go ten yrs.
Guess the OJ will now become lemonade
Don't drop the soap, juice.
Gino, you know as well as anybody that those weren't "his" to begin with. Second, you have the right to get your stuff back, but not with a gun telling people they can't leave a room.
And nance, once again going on a veiled racist rant... Why again is it that Obama needs to help OJ? You've never really expounded on this flimsiest of arguments.
He will be out in 5-6 years....
Obama is superman.....he is going to fix everything.
OJ is being railroaded.
Another thing for Obama to fix.
"Obama should fix this."
Why should Obama do anything for OJ nance? What is the world does a president have to do with it?
Obama is superman...he can solve any problem.
OJ is being railroaded.
Red: But eighteen years...are you serious? Shouldn't the punishment fit the crime? The alleged victims weren't altar boys. He's being punished because of what he allegedly did in Cali.
"Obama is superman...he can solve any problem."
Oh, I see. More nansense. Same as nonsense, but with a dose of condensing sarcasm.
OJ is a football legend.
He nearly got railroaded in LA because they planted that blood on his car and other places.
Jury found him Not Guilty in LA because if the glove does not fit then one must acquit and because Mark Fuhrman said the "N" word.
Now, people are just mad because their railroad attempt in LA did not work and they have railroaded him in Las Vegas.
All he was trying to do was to get his stolen goods back. OJ was not carrying gun.
Obama must correct this. A footbal legend and movie star is about to serve time.
It is a grave injustice if Obama can not prevent this crime against OJ.
OJ is in the slammer because he's a friggin moron. If you find out that someone stole your possessions-you don't violate the law to get them back. You call the cops & let them deal with it. But not OJ. He'll get 3-6 years behind bars.
My feelings are 18 years for Simpson the mastermind and 6 for the wannabe.
"Obama must correct this."
But why not expect your guy to do something about it? Bush has the power to pardon right now, not Barack. Can't imagine why any sane person would expect Barry to waste his time but not expect Bush to do the same thing.
Obama can come to Las Vegas and get the citizens behind a movement to free OJ who is getting railroad.
OJ is being railroad again.
When will the injustice end for OJ?
OJ is a criminal and needs to be punished. I don't care if he is a sports hero or a superhero..he is and was guilty. The man needs to serve his time, in fact I think 18 years is not enough time for him to serve. And Obama should not step into this mess. Why on earth would the New President step in to help a creep like OJ? I am tired of criminals getting off just because they made a movie or threw a football..who cares? They are not the real heros. The police, firemen and teachers are the ones on the frontlines. They are the heros, not OJ. P. S. Jfnance: Have you lost your mind altogether? What a load of garbage.
Well if push comes to shove Obama can always pardon OJ in 4 yrs as a final gesture. And I have no doubt he would do it.
And why would Obama pardon OJ? Is it because OJ's black and Barack is black? Hmmmm.... Sounds a little fishy. Also sounds moronic that you think just because Obama and OJ share the same skin color Obama would have any desire to pardon OJ.
Presidents can not pardon or commute state criminals. They can only pardon or commute federal criminals or possible federal crimes.
Obama can use his speaking power to put pressure on the Nevada citizens to demand that the state pardon board either pardon or commute OJ's sentence.
Obama is OJ's only hope.
The evil people tried to railroad OJ once and failed by planting blood on his glove, car and dropping his blood in the crime scene. Also, if the glove does not fit then one must aquit and investigator Mark Furhman said the "N" the word.
Now they have railroaded OJ into prison. He did not have a gun. All he was trying to do was get his stuff back.
Obama must stop this injustice to a community hero like OJ.
Keep at your racist rants nance.
What did they give the last guy who's first conviction was an armed home invasion? I'm sure this has happened before.
That's what they should give OJ.
"Keep at your racist rants nance."
He's doing it to demean Obama. He probably looks down on both of them.
Oh, right, this story is about the 18 years given to OJ.
Hmmmm... let's see... what would I say about OJ? Got it!
Karma's a bitch.
Playing the race card.......zing.......that was pretty quick.
I guess we will be seeing that a lot the next 4 years.
No you've been trying to bludgeon people with your wacked out idea that Obama needs to "fix" OJ's problem. All you say is that Obama is a superman. I think you're saying he needs to do this as one black man for another. That's racist. Quit trying to stir the pot over something as stupid as this.
OJ is being railroaded. I did not say he is black.
Obama is a man that fights for justice.
Injustice is being done to OJ.
Obama fights injustice and he needs to save OJ.
You guys love to play the race card....zing...there it come out.
wow, and you are still a racist. As said before, just stop while you are ahead. You were doing this blatantly inflamatory posting during the election and now you are still doing it. Face it McCain lost, and now you don't need to be a snarky smartass all the time about Obama. He's not even in office. Let it go, deal with the fact that OJ got convicted, and you need help if you think OJ was frame for the Brown/Goldman slayings.
"You guys love to play the race card"
Not true. But you seem to love to say "playing the race card" whenever somebody calls you on your racism. It goes along with your marathon dismissal theme.
Your denials are as truthful as your "Al Gore's houseboat to gets 2 miles per gallon" story.
Race card playing experts......I guess I should get use to that.
Obama needs to fix this injustice being done to OJ.
Yes they tried to frame him the first time.
If the glove does not fit then we must acquit.
Also, the lead investigator might have said the "N" word one time in his lifetime.
Thank God for good lawyers. They saved OJ once.
Now, OJ needs a higher power. He needs Obama to help him.
Okay, Al Gore's new houseboat to gets 2 miles per gallon and you are not a racist.
I think I understand your points. Better than you know.
Hey Spammo, why don't you stop reposting the same trash that continually gets you in hot water. OJ got off the first time because of great lawyers. He got snagged the second (civil suit) and third (recent conviction) times, because small surprise... he was guilty.
So quit the snarky sarcasm, deal with the fact that Obama won, and quit trying to act like you support Obama or OJ. You consistently posted against Obama during the election.
Thanks for the support JohnVegas, the Scholar of Mystery.
"To give you an idea, a smaller trailerable houseboat can get @ 3-4 miles per gallon MPG, and a mid sized houseboat would get @ 1 MPG, and a larger houseboat probably around .5 MPG."
http://www.all-about-houseboats.com/grea...
Al Gore, $100 million dollar global warming scam artist, has a mid sized houseboat that gets around 1 MPG. He is going to burn up our planet.....oh my God!!!!!!!
I guess JohnVegas has never been around boats and is not aware how much fuel they use.
I trust the Las Vegas Court will not be made a fool of. Truly, I trust!
Some of you bloggers are hysterical!
Obama will not help this swine. Just because he's president does not mean "Blacks unite...it's Whitey's turn".
Why is it everytime a black person gets punished, it's racism? He was guilty of this crime and is receiving punishment FOR THIS CRIME.
While he was guilty of the last crime, he got off and should have behaved. The glove DID fit. You get a pair of fitting Isotoners, put on a surgical glove, then spread your fingers as wide as you can and see how well they fit then. I still can't believe no one else saw this.
Justice is finally being served. As for Cocring, he's rotting in hell.
"I guess JohnVegas has never been around boats and is not aware how much fuel they use."
As I already told you, and you continue to ignore, mileage does not apply to boats or planes. Gallons per hour does. Al Gore's new boat burns 2 gallons of BIO diesel per hour. An extremely efficient use of renewable resources.
You appear to be the real scam artist nance, by using inaccurate and meaningless "facts" whenever it suits your goals.
Thanks also for the numerous condescending remarks about the Mystery School. That would make you a religiously intolerant racist bigoted homophobe, near as I can tell. I'm sure you will disagree, but I don't know what else to call it.
Yes Mr. Scholar of Mystery....my point that Al Gore's boat still gets 2 mpg is still true.
A houseboat's cruising speed is 4-5 mph.
That will put Gore's mpg at 2-2.5 mpg.
2-2.5 mpg is not all that great unless you are JohnEEEEEVegas.
Scam artist Al Gore should know about the problems that biofuels cause.
"As the study from the Nature Conservancy warns, "converting rainforests, peatlands, savannas, or grasslands to produce biofuels in Brazil, Southeast Asia and the United States creates a 'biofuel carbon debt' by releasing 17 to 420 times more carbon dioxide than the fossil fuels they replace." There are other negative effects. Massive amounts of water are needed to irrigate cornfields, setting up potential competition between farms and homes. The runoff of pesticides and nitrogen-based fertilizers used by farmers could lead to increased pollution and oxygen-depleted waterways. The natural gas used to make the fertilizer adds to the carbon deficit created by biofuels. "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
"Mr. Scholar of Mystery"
Thanks for the compliment. I would rather be a Mystery Scholar than a racist.
Calling somebody a racist.........That is so predictable coming from a warm and fuzzy liberal like yourself.
You guys just love playing the race card.
It is so pathetic.
It's so pathetic reading your snarky comments about "The One" needing to bail out OJ, with no real reason why. Why was OJ railroaded? All that can be inferred is that a black man should bail out another black man. You are racist, so either shut up on this issue, or accept the fact that you are racist.
Jim, I didn't realize from your condescending religiously intolerant responses that you were so sensitive. Let me say it in more gentle terms.
You seem to look down upon people of color. From your posts, one might imagine that you see yourself as superior to them intellectually.
Truthfully Jim, one might imagine that you see yourself as superior to everyone intellectually. But only if they assume that your dismissals of everyone and everything you disagree with are a sign of intelligence, versus insecurity.
Personally I think you're a pretty smart guy. But you invoke the eye roll response too often and condescend too often to be taken that seriously. And, you still don't know how to lose graciously. I don't think I've ever seen anyone on this web site ever convince you to change your view on anything, or even acknowledge the possibility that someone else's view could be as valid as yours.
Plunk.....another race card......so predictable....you guys must carry about 100 of them in your wallet.
Is Obama's spiritual mentor a racist ? I am betting that you guys will say no even though he has been making racist remarks for years. Even the church's creed is racist.
"Is Obama's spiritual mentor a racist ? I am betting that you guys will say no even though he has been making racist remarks for years."
I don't know if he is. I know what I heard him say in those inflammatory excerpts from sermons. Actually it sounded more like he was angry and saying that black people were victims of US policies.
Here's a curve ball for you Jim. I believe that there are no victims and that everyone creates their own experience. No matter what.
So I do not believe that black people are victims. I believe that all of us create our own experience. So I do not think it is good spiritually for Reverend Wright to encourage the notion of "victim" to his congregation.
Do I personally think that he hates white people? Hate, no. Resent, maybe. But it's not like there aren't reasons for that.
So fine Jim, you're not a racist. Good for you. Being a racist is really stupid, and I do not think you are that stupid. Even though we seldom agree, I would find it hard to believe that you would consider it good logic to judge someone solely by the color of their skin.
You are saying you do not do that. Is that correct?
"The Tower"
I'm rollin' up in a big gray bus
And I'm shackled down
Myself that's who I trust
The minute I arrived
Some sucker got hit
Shanked ten times
Behind some bulls***
Word in the pen the fool was a snitch
So without hesitatin'
I made a weapon quick
If found a sharp piece of metal
Taped it to a stick
Then a bullhorn sounds
That means it's time for chow
My first prison meal
The whole feeling was foul
It wasn't quite my style
But my stomach growled
So I flushed the s*** down
And hit the weight pile
The brothers was swole
The attitudes was cold
Felt the tension on the yard
From the young and the old
But I'm a warrior
I got my ground to hold
So I studied the inmates
To see who hd the power
the Whites? The Blacks?
Or just the gun tower!
In a blink of an eye, a riot broke out
Blacks put their backs to the wall
Cause it was north and south
A gun man shouts
And everybody had doubt
Until the bullets started fly'n
Took two men out
Thn they rushed everybody
Back to their cells
Damn the pen is different than
The county jail
I'm in a one man cell
I know my life's on a scale
I wonder if that gunman is goin' to hell
This is my second day
I got a ten year stay
I learned my first lesson
In the pen you don't plaay
I saw a brother kill another
Cause he said he was gay
But that's the way it is
It been that way for years
and when his body hit the ground
I heard a couple of cheers
It kind of hurt me inside
That they were glad he died
and I ask myself
Just who had the power?
The Whites? The Blacks?
Or just the gun tower!
You see the Whites got a thing
The call White pride
The Blacks got the muscle
Mexicans got the knives
You better be wise
You wanna stay alive
Go toe to toe with a sucka
No matter wht size
A fool tried to sweat me
Act'n like he was hard
I stuck him twice in the neck
And left him dead in the yard
It was smooth how I did it
Cause nobody could see
With my jacket on my arm
And my knife on the side of me
Bam bam, it was over
Another one bites the dust
I went crazy in the pen
With nobody to trust
Bench'n ten quarters, so I'm hard to sweat
Used a tat gun, and engrved my set
They call me a lifer
Cause I'm good as dead
I live in the hole, so the floor's my bed
And I ask myself again
Who has the power
The Whites? The Blacks?
Or just the gun tower
Probably for the same reason so many Blacks cheered when OJ was found not guilty of the murder charges - how else to explain why so many Black people could not read the writing on the wall while the rest of the country could? I wouldn't defend a white man or a man of any color if the evidence was so overwhelming of such a heinous crime and yet the Blacks wanted to cheer for his acquittal - if not for the color of his skin then why? Intelligent people don't give a crap about skin color when it comes to convicting criminals of the crimes they commit - to defend someone BECAUSE of the color of their skin is just as wrong as prosecuting them for it is. The difference is that people who have intelligence want justice for the victim regardless of the color of ones skin - only dumbasses want to see criminals, black OR white, go free just because they feel they're their 'bro'