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OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up?
#7426553 - 09/19/07 12:21 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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NBC News and news services Updated: 6:01 p.m. PT Sept 18, 2007 LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors filed formal charges Tuesday against O.J. Simpson, alleging the fallen football star committed 10 felonies, including kidnapping, in the armed robbery of sports memorabilia collectors in a casino-hotel room.
Also Tuesday night, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police arrested Michael F. McClinton, 50, who became the fourth person charged in the incident, NBC News confirmed.
Simpson was arrested Sunday after a collector reported a group of armed men charged into his hotel room and took several items Simpson claimed belonged to him. Simpson, 60, was booked on five felony counts, including suspicion of assault and robbery with a deadly weapon. District Attorney David Roger filed those charges and added five other felonies, including kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, according to court documents.
The judge may set the bail at a hearing Wednesday in excess of $1 million because of the kidnapping charges, a local expert told NBC News.
Simpson, accused along with three other men, faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted in the robbery at the Palace Station casino. He was being held without bail and was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.
Details of complaint According to the charges, Simpson and the others went to the hotel room under the pretext of brokering a deal with Alfred Beardsley and Bruce Fromong, two longtime collectors of Simpson memorabilia.
Once in the room, Simpson prevented one of the collectors from calling 911 on his cell phone “by ripping it out of Fromong’s hand” while one or more accomplices pointed or displayed a handgun.
The complaint does not specify which of the men involved was carrying the weapon.
The kidnapping charge accuses the men of detaining each of the men “against his will, and without his consent, for the purpose of committing a robbery.”
Fromong, a crucial witness in the case, was in critical condition in a Los Angeles hospital on Tuesday, after suffering a heart attack Monday, according to a spokeswoman at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Beardsley has said he does not want to pursue the case.
Simpson’s lawyer, Yale Galanter, said he planned to ask for Simpson’s release on his own recognizance.
“If it was anyone other than O.J. Simpson, he would have been released by now,” Galanter said.
Simpson insists he wasn't armed Simpson has insisted that he was not armed and that he went to the hotel simply to retrieve property that had been stolen from him. “You can’t rob something that is yours,” Galanter said. “O.J. said, ’You’ve got stolen property. Either you return it or I call the police.”’
Witnesses and authorities have said that they don’t believe Simpson had a gun but that some of the men who accompanied him during the confrontation were armed.
Two others named in the complaint, Walter Alexander and Clarence Stewart, have been arrested and released. It was not immediately clear if McClinton was to be released from custody also. Some memorabilia in police custody Some of the missing goods, including autographed footballs, were turned in Monday by Stewart, 53, of Las Vegas, before he was released on $78,000 bail.
Alexander, 46, of Mesa, Ariz., said Tuesday that Simpson may have been tricked because another memorabilia dealer who tipped him off also recorded everything on tape.
“It sounds like a setup to me,” Alexander told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He said Simpson had thought the memorabilia belonged to him after getting a call from the dealer, Tom Riccio. Riccio, who reportedly sold the audio to the celebrity gossip Web site TMZ.com, said Tuesday that Simpson hatched the idea himself.
“O.J. came up with some way-out ideas before I finally agreed to the last one, which didn’t go the way he said it would go. I didn’t do anything wrong was the bottom line,” Riccio told Fox News Channel.
Simpson and the other three men are charged with two counts of first-degree kidnapping; two counts of robbery with use of a deadly weapon; burglary while in possession of a deadly weapon; two counts of assault with a deadly weapon; conspiracy to commit kidnapping; conspiracy to commit robbery; and a misdemeanor, conspiracy to commit a crime.
Simpson also faces one charge of coercion with use of a deadly weapon, a felony.
Asked whether the number of new charges seemed extreme, given the circumstances, a leading Las Vegas defense attorney said prosecutors often aim high.
“It’s typical for them to allege as many crimes as they believe they can establish probable cause for, knowing that to some degree it may not completely pan out that way. It adds to the pressure on the defendant for the purpose of negotiation,” said David Chesnoff, adding that the charges make it likely Simpson will be asked to post a “very high bail.”
Simpson wealth disputed Simpson was acquitted more than a decade ago of the 1994 killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Goldman’s son, Ron. He was later found liable in a wrongful-death trial.
The civil jury returned a $33.5 million judgment against Simpson, but it remains largely unpaid. The Goldman family has waged a campaign to claim Simpson’s assets since then.
Earlier Tuesday in California, a judge gave Goldman’s father, Fred, a week to come up with a list of sports memorabilia that Simpson is accused of stealing from the Vegas hotel room, but he refused to order Simpson to hand over his earnings from everything from autograph signings to video games.
In court in Santa Monica, David Cook, an attorney for Fred Goldman, accused Simpson of “sitting on a treasure trove of sports memorabilia” while ignoring the multimillion-dollar judgment. But both Cook and Simpson lawyer Ronald Slates said they had no idea what the items were, and Slates argued it was unclear whether Simpson really owned any of them.
Cook also filed a new request to get Simpson’s watch, which he described as a Rolex Submariner that he saw the former football star wearing in a photo featured on the celebrity Web site TMZ.com. Such watches sell for $5,000 or more, he said.
He also argued that Simpson was wealthy, citing a 2003 tax form indicating income of $400,000.
Slates noted Simpson has expenses for his three children. “He has a right, like everybody else, to be protected (under the law),” Slates said.
Slates also said Simpson has repeatedly offered to settle the judgment with the Goldman family.
“It is inconceivable that the father of a murder victim would sit and haggle,” Cook said.
Something really sounds fishy hear, i think it may be a set up!!!! Or maybe not, if he is sly enough to get away with murder it doesnt make sense for him to pull a stunt like this. I believe he did commit the murder but you cant do anything about that now, that is why i think this was a set up.
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: PoppyRider]
#7426706 - 09/19/07 01:22 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Tries to give a shit*
Fails*
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: The_Ghost]
#7426708 - 09/19/07 01:22 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
The_Ghost said: Tries to give a shit*
Fails*
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PoppyRider
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: The_Ghost]
#7426709 - 09/19/07 01:23 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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haha i thought this would be a good thread...guess not
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: PoppyRider]
#7426716 - 09/19/07 01:25 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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too many words.
can you summarize?
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: Acidic_Sloth]
#7426864 - 09/19/07 03:32 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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umm oj was caught trying to take back items that were stolen from him and was charged for robbery..the guys he was with supposedly had guns but they were already released from custody...but they are still trying to get oj for kidnapping, armered robbery, and assualt with a deadly weapon
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: PoppyRider]
#7426886 - 09/19/07 03:49 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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ah, okay.
yeah, i still don't really care. but thanks for summarizing.
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: Acidic_Sloth]
#7426896 - 09/19/07 04:09 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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yea dude no problem haha
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: PoppyRider]
#7426981 - 09/19/07 05:54 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: PoppyRider]
#7427225 - 09/19/07 08:15 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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hopefully he will go down this time, karma can be a bitch, of course when you literally get away with murder (so cliche)
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: supra]
#7430174 - 09/19/07 09:37 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: PoppyRider]
#7430236 - 09/19/07 09:54 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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when will the racists give up?
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: Mitchnast]
#7430318 - 09/19/07 10:16 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I hope it was a setup. I hope they did the whole thing just so they could sell the tape to TMZ and make a sucka out of OJ. He's about dumb enough to fall for it, and he has it coming. Everyone's a winner.
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: Mitchnast]
#7430508 - 09/19/07 10:57 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Mitchnast said: when will the racists give up?
OJ is out on bail!! YAY
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: Nemo_Hoes]
#7430557 - 09/19/07 11:12 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I killed his wife and friend. Oh fu-
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: HybridFlash]
#7430575 - 09/19/07 11:19 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I hope he serves some time in prison. I don't like him and I am certain he killed his wife and her friend. Today I saw him on TV and I was thinking, "Wouldn't it be funny if he was found not guilty on all charges after a long trial, then kills his new white girlfriend." The guys no good.
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: PoppyRider]
#7430641 - 09/19/07 11:41 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Who fuking really knows what is going on everywhere, I think this world right now is a great big hoax into the next dimention.
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Re: OJ SIMSPON BACK IN JAIL-was it a set up? [Re: Skunk420]
#7431296 - 09/20/07 07:10 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I did not kill nicole...
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