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For goodness sake, O.J., this is absolutely ridiculous! I have never, ever gone one way or the other on the whole O.J. Simpson trial. I actually watched most of it since it was always on at my family’s house. I’ve always tried to present both sides of the story when the topic would come up with conversation with friends or even my children. But SERIOUSLY! How much “bad luck” can happen before people who were neutral start to go to one side? Honestly, this story is ridiculous.
TMZ.com has an audiotape of the altercation, so here’s the link to that:
Here’s the story from Good Morning America:
Police arrested former football star O.J. Simpson at a Las Vegas hotel Sunday after police say he and five men robbed two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in their hotel room.
More after the jump!
Simpson is being held at the Clark County Detention Center without bail until Thursday, but ABC News has learned that Simpson’s attorney plans to file an emergency motion requesting an emergency bail hearing by 10 a.m.
“The thing in my mind as soon as I saw him, I’m thinking, ‘O.J., how can you be this dumb?’” Fromong said. “He didn’t need to be there.”
Fromong said Simpson and his cohorts initially said they were customers, looking to buy memorabilia. Two of the men — not Simpson, he said — were armed.
“The door burst open, and in came, running in, almost commando-style, O.J. Simpson and some of his people, with guns drawn,” Fromong said. “And O.J. at that time was saying, ‘I want my stuff. I want my stuff.’”
Fromong said that Simpson was in the room during the armed robbery, but that Simpson never held a gun or other weapon.
Simpson has told reporters that he was merely trying to get back some of his belongings.
Fromong said today on “GMA” that some of the memorabilia he was selling did belong to Simpson at one time. “But these were things that belonged to him a long time ago,” he said.
Simpson told reporters that in addition to sports memorabilia, he was also looking for the suit he wore in court in 1995 — the day he was acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. Fromong said he didn’t have the suit.
The Web site TMZ.com obtained an audiotape that it says is a recording of Simpson in the room during the burglary, saying, “Don’t let nobody out of the room (expletive). Think you can steal my (expletive) and sell it?”
ABC News has not confirmed the authenticity of the recording.
Late Justice?
As Simpson was led in handcuffs into a Las Vegas jail Sunday, onlookers yelled, “Guilty!” and “No Johnny to save you this time, O.J.!”Thirteen years after being charged with the murders of Brown Simpson and Goldman, Simpson was arrested Sunday on two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts of burglary with a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit burglary.
The Clark County district attorney told The Associated Press that he expected Simpson to be charged with seven felonies and one gross misdemeanor. If convicted of the charges, Simpson could face up to 30 years in state prison on each robbery count alone.
Police also arrested Walter Alexander, 46, of Arizona, and they are still looking for four other men who were allegedly involved. Police also recovered two guns allegedly used in the robbery at a sealed location.
Fromong said that while he is sure he saw Simpson enter the room, he was disappointed in the former football star’s decision.
“It doesn’t make me feel good, knowing that this is a man I called a friend,” Fromong said.
Fred Goldman, the father of Ron Goldman, said he hopes that justice will be served in this case.
“I don’t want to see any repeat of the celebrity game that was played during the criminal trial,” said Goldman. “I’d like to think Ron has a smile on his face.”
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Its such a shame, that everything he does is big news. Leave the man alone
True enough. People break in to places all the time. The problem for me, however, is when you do stuff that is just asking for trouble. You know you’re being watched (even if it’s unfair) and you still do stupid stuff. Call the cops to help you get your stuff back. If you don’t trust the cops, video tape the event to protect yourself.
But DEFINITELY don’t write a book called “If I Did It” and expect interest in you to die down. Why would you write a book like that and include pictures of your children’s mother dead on the sidewalk. That’s what did it for me. Anything but that – the kids went through enough without knowing that those last pictures of their mother are spread around everywhere, leaving no dignity for her.
O.J. news had died down. That book guaranteed these problems were gonna come back.
That’s just my 2 cents.
Oh,my goodness. I did not know all of this. In that case I take back all I said about leaving the man alone.You are right, he should have shut his mouth.Poor children.
However, the Browns and what his name is doing the same thing.