This morning, thirteen years and thirteen hours to the day after an all-black jury in Los Angeles acquitted O.J. Simpson of murdering his wife and her friend, an all-white jury in Las Vegas convicted him on all 12 counts of conspiracy, kidnapping, burglary, robbery and assault, which he committed at gunpoint on September 13, 2007.
How’s that for American justice … in black and white!
When he was arraigned, one would’ve been hard-pressed to find a single legal pundit who thought O.J. would be convicted. Instead, they all insisted that – because O.J. was allegedly only stealing his own sports memorabilia back and his victims were disreputable con men – no jury would convict him. But none of them bothered to advise that taking the law into one’s own hands is never a good idea, or that, just as it is illegal to rape a prostitute, it is equally so to rob a con man.
By contrast, here, in part, is what I wrote back then:
Wouldn’t it be ironic if O.J. were now convicted for burglary after getting away with double murder (committed June ’94, acquitted October ’95)?…
I predict he’ll be convicted and sentenced to at least 25 years in prison; notwithstanding his patently specious (no-intent) defense that he cannot be convicted of stealing his ‘own shit.’
This is just one more way in which his civil conviction for those murders is coming home to roost. Recall that he was ordered to turn over his sports memorabilia to help settle the $33 million judgment.
Pay no attention to his desperate attempt to feign a confident smile in this most recent mugshot. Because, if you look into his eyes, you could see it dawning on him that he’s about to pay for being not only a double murderer, but also a common thief!
[OJ’s surreal deal finally revealed: 1 burglary for 2 murders…, The iPINIONS Journal, September 17, 2007]
Indeed, just days ago, O.J. confirmed what I saw in his eyes back then when he contemplated his fate as follows:
I’m afraid that I won’t get to go to my kids’ college graduations after I managed to get them through college.
Of course the more tragic fact seems completely lost on this fatally narcissistic SOB that, because of him, his kids’ mother did not even get to see them graduate from high school….
Therefore, I pray he finds God, asks for forgiveness and repents while in prison, where I predict O.J., 61, will now spend the rest of his life.
Good riddance, Juice!
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