O.J. Simpson says bad legal advice put him in prison

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Source: CNN

Disgraced football legend O.J. Simpson is scheduled to return to a Las Vegas courtroom Monday in a bid to get his robbery, assault and kidnapping convictions thrown out.

The one-time Heisman Trophy winner and Buffalo Bills halfback is more than four years into a 33-year prison term and is asking for a new trial. In court papers, he's arguing that bad legal advice led to his arrest and conviction in a 2007 confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers.

Simpson not only accuses his old lawyer, Yale Galanter, of having a conflict of interest and of failing to mount an effective defense in his trial. He also says Galanter told him before that confrontation that he was within his rights to take back property he believed had been stolen from him, "so long as there would be no trespass and no physical force used against the persons with the property."

Simpson, 65, was convicted of leading a group of associates into a room at the Palace Station hotel and casino and using threats, guns and force to take back the items from the two dealers.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/12/justice/oj-simpson-appeal/index.html

[hlthe2b]

1. ahh, the saga goes on and on and on...

[geek tragedy]

2. LMAO

He also says Galanter told him before that confrontation that he was within his rights to take back property he believed had been stolen from him, "so long as there would be no trespass and no physical force used against the persons with the property."

Simpson, 65, was convicted of leading a group of associates into a room at the Palace Station hotel and casino and using threats, guns and force to take back the items from the two dealers.

[jberryhill]

5. OMG I am so going to use that

[rocktivity]

3. Rocktivity says that bad legal BEHAVIOR put OJ in prision

that our legal system finally managed to notice!


rocktivity

[Myrina]

4. ... always somebody else's fault.

Put on your Big Boy Pants & face the music, OJ.

[Archae]

6. I just saw a live image of OJ.

He looks like hell.

Good.

[rollin74]

7. he's put on a lot of weight. Looks like he might be enjoying the fine dining over at Lovelock

[Mosby]

12. that and no more coke to keep the hunger pains away. nt

[madokie]

8. OJ is where he should be

In a fucking jail cell
IMHO

[chelsea0011]

9. ....and great legal advice kept him out of jail. Honestly, this guy has had the best

legal people looking after him.

[Hekate]

10. Oh, the poor thing

[struggle4progress]

11. "My lawyer only told me not to use force: he didn't tell me not to use threats, guns and force!"

[marble falls]

13. The guns were purely audio/visual in nature. Hell those guys mighta had knives....

do you know what a crazy angry guy can do with a knife?"

[Politicalboi]

14. Using a gun, and locking

These men in the room till you got your shit IS illegal, and I'm not an attorney. Just run that through your pea brain OJ. Any idiot should know what you did was and still is a crime. And the ONLY one responsible for you being in jail is YOU!

Next up, he'll claim brain trauma from playing football made him do ALL these things.

[graham4anything]

15. What is the difference between Oliver North and OJ Simpson? THE ACLU got Oliver North free.

OJ was charged because he was OJ
he was YOU KNOW found innocent of all charges by a jury of his peers for the first crime, double jeopardy is NOT allowed.

IF one person has an injustice, every person in the country does.

Oliver North committed a worse crime than OJ in Nevada. Yet for some reason people want to keep OJ jailed?
Why? Remember, one can NOT in America retry someone for the original charge OJ was found INNOCENT of.
That is the law.

personally, I believe OJ was indeed given very bad advice to set him up, and it was between many and it was to retry him for a crime he was found innocent of by a jury of his peers under USA law.

Justice UNserved. IMHO

I thought that was what the ACLU was all about? Didn't realize it was selective though.

[premium]

18. OJ was charged and convicted because OJ did the crime.

OJ is in prison because of OJ.
Nevada did what California didn't. I love my state.

[Nye Bevan]

21. In his armed robbery trial, he was found *guilty* by a jury of his peers.

He could have been sentenced to life, and was actually sentenced to serve 9 to 33 years. There were no obvious legal errors in the trial, and as far as I can see, nothing for the ACLU to complain about.

OJ is a dangerous sociopath and belongs in prison.

[Capt13]

16. I hope his appeal is sucessful

I'll sleep better at night knowing he's out there looking for his wife's REAL killer

[premium]

19. I see what you did there.

[duffyduff]

17. Knowing Nevada like I do,

O.J. is NEVER going to get out of prison, except in a pine box.

[premium]

20. If you don't mind my asking,

where in Nevada do/did you live?
I live just outside of Tonopah.

[Zoeisright]

22. Refusing to take responsibility for his actions yet AGAIN.

I'm so glad this fucker is in jail. He's the typical spoiled sports hero: thinks he can do no wrong because that's what he was told from the time he could hold a ball. Fuck you, OJ.