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Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 | 5:21 p.m.
O.J. Simpson.
CARSON CITY – In a one sentence decision, the Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the petition of former football great O.J. Simpson to rehear his case.
The court last October rejected the appeal of Simpson, who was convicted of 11 counts in taking items from memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room in September 2007. He was sentenced to a maximum of 33 years in prison with the possibility of parole after nine years.
Defense lawyers asked the court to reconsider the initial decision, saying there were multiple errors committed.
But Justices Michael Cherry, Nancy Saitta and Mark Gibbons signed the order denying a rehearing.
The court earlier overturned the conviction of co-defendant Clarence “C.J.” Stewart. When the case was returned to district court in Las Vegas, Stewart entered into a plea negotiation deal. He was placed on three years of probation, including nine months of home detention.
Stewart had already served two years in prison when the conviction was reversed.
Simpson was convicted of conspiracies to commit a crime, kidnapping and robbery; and burglary, kidnapping, robbery with use of a deadly weapon and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
Simpson, now 64, is serving his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center.
Defense lawyers claimed the prosecution committed misconduct during the trial by excusing two potential jurors who were black and eliciting testimony by intimidation of a witness. They argued there was not enough evidence for the kidnapping conviction.
if the parole board has any sense he will die in prison.
Judge Glass and her scumbag husband, City Council man Steve Wolfson, should be sitting right next to him.
Judge Glass gives a Dominic Rizzolo 1 year of probation for stabbing someone and almost killing him while trying to extort money but OJ gets 33 years with no one getting hurt and the "victims" not even wanting to press charges. Yea, they are equal sentences. Nothing like making the punishment fit the crime.
In another case, Wolfson uses his pull to get 4 people let go without ever being charged by the DA, after they beat someone to within inches of life in front of multiple witnesses.
I'm glad OJ is rotting in prison but it is no where near a fair and equitable judicial system in this bunghole of a city known as Las Vegas
Sorry OJ - enjoyed seeing you play football - hoped you would get out from under this unjust conviction.
hey rev, I hope you aren't allowed to reproduce. The gene pool is getting pretty slim when you start thinking being a former pro athlete is enough of a reason to get away with a crime.
The Nevada Supreme Court should have to answer any and all questions raised in an appeal. This matter of writing a one sentence decision is a disgrace to justice in this state. Basically, O.J. Simpson has been railroaded into prison for the simple fact that he has been declared a "bad" person by white society in the U.S. This labeling of Simpson was because he was found "Not Guilty" of murder in a court of law. In the future more mentally advanced people will read the documentation of Simpson's case and will conclude how a person in the 21st century was "lynched" by society and, ironically, by the judiciary.
Karma is a pain OJ. If you had taken a plea deal the DA said you only would have gotten 2 or 3 years. Oh well. Keep buying your prison buddies candy bars.