What's new

OJ Simpson, NFL star, passes away at age 76 [Update on post #25]

Abdullah719

T20I Captain
Joined
Apr 16, 2013
Runs
44,825
Former US football star and actor OJ Simpson has been granted parole after nine years in a Nevada prison.

"Thank you!" said the 70-year-old, bowing his head as the board approved him for release.

Simpson, who was acquitted for a double murder in 1995, has been serving time for armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and 10 other charges.

He is set to walk free in October after being convicted of a 2007 confrontation at a Las Vegas hotel.

The former Hall of Fame running back was found guilty in 2008 - exactly 13 years to the day after he was famously acquitted for the killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.

He and a group of five others stormed into a hotel room to confront two sports-memorabilia collectors and seize items that he claimed belonged to him from his career.

The hearing for Prisoner 1027820 took place at the Lovelock Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in the Nevada desert.

Simpson told parole officials that the objects he took from the Las Vegas hotel room were later ruled by officials to legally belong to him.

"I've spent a conflict-free life," the prisoner said to the board.

However, Simpson admitted spousal abuse in 1989 after police responded to a domestic violence call at his home.

According to police records, his wife had run from the house screaming to officers: "He's going to kill me!"

On Thursday, Bruce Fromong, who one of Simpson's victims in the robbery, testified in favour of his release.

"I've known OJ for a long time," said Mr Fromong. "I don't feel that he's a threat to anyone.

"He's a good man. It's time to give him a second chance. It's time for him to go home to his family, his friends."

Simpson appeared to dab a tear during Mr Fromong's testimony.

The prisoner told the commissioners he had helped establish a Baptist prayer meeting in prison, adding: "I could have been a better Christian."

The prisoner also rejected suggestions he had an alcohol problem.

"I've done my time," he said. "I've done it as well and as respectfully as anybody can. I think if you talk to the wardens they'll tell you.

"I've not complained for nine years. All I've done is try to be helpful… and that's the life I've tried to live because I want to get back to my kids and family."

In 2013 the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners granted him parole on some of his convictions, but for not the more violent charges.

The prisoner's daughter, Arnelle Simpson, choked up as she told the parole board: "My experience with him is that he's like my best friend and my rock."

She added: "He is remorseful, he truly is remorseful."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40676882
 
Correct decision, but OJ definitely has sociopathic traits, he nearly ruined it for himself by going on a rant at the beginning about the case itself, when anyone with an ounce of sense would've shown contrition and concentrated on saying what the panel wanted to hear.

Also, going by the made in america documentary, it's quite possible he was set up during the altercation itself, and the sentence was definitely payback for white America feeling he got away with Murdering Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson.
 
I can't even put into words how much I despise this man. Even more than Mark David Chapman who killed my hero John Lennon. Just hearing his name makes me sick to my stomach.
 
I can't even put into words how much I despise this man. Even more than Mark David Chapman who killed my hero John Lennon. Just hearing his name makes me sick to my stomach.
Why do you despise him? Do you know him personally? I find it strange to hear people say they hate someone, or despise someone (or even love someone) they don't personally know, but just because they happen to be a sports or media personality who has committed a crime, or just performed well against your favourite team/player. Surely love or hate should be for someone one knows personally, and/or whose actions have directly impacted upon one's life?
 
Why do you despise him? Do you know him personally? I find it strange to hear people say they hate someone, or despise someone (or even love someone) they don't personally know, but just because they happen to be a sports or media personality who has committed a crime, or just performed well against your favourite team/player. Surely love or hate should be for someone one knows personally, and/or whose actions have directly impacted upon one's life?

I do not need to know a person personally to hate him if he is a criminal. Why would I not hate him after what he did to those two innocent people back in 1994? And if you do believe that the trial was a fair one and the verdict was correct then good on you.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Why do you despise him? Do you know him personally? I find it strange to hear people say they hate someone, or despise someone (or even love someone) they don't personally know, but just because they happen to be a sports or media personality who has committed a crime, or just performed well against your favourite team/player. Surely love or hate should be for someone one knows personally, and/or whose actions have directly impacted upon one's life?

In that case why do millions of people hate Adolf Hitler? After all they never knew him personally neither did he impact or directly harm their life.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
[MENTION=133315]Hitman[/MENTION] Kevin Nash tweeted he still has a soft spot for OJ as he was his childhood hero he looked up to. I vaguely followed the case , what did OJ do again? Killed his wife ?
 
In that case why do millions of people hate Adolf Hitler? After all they never knew him personally neither did he impact or directly harm their life.

Well that escalated quickly
 
Last edited by a moderator:
[MENTION=133315]Hitman[/MENTION] Kevin Nash tweeted he still has a soft spot for OJ as he was his childhood hero he looked up to. I vaguely followed the case , what did OJ do again? Killed his wife ?

Killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in the most brutal way one could imagine. And worst of all he got away with it. And even worse he has absolutely no remorse.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
In that case why do millions of people hate Adolf Hitler? After all they never knew him personally neither did he impact or directly harm their life.

:/ I think they call that Godwin's Law
 
Last edited by a moderator:
[MENTION=133315]Hitman[/MENTION] Kevin Nash tweeted he still has a soft spot for OJ as he was his childhood hero he looked up to. I vaguely followed the case , what did OJ do again? Killed his wife ?
He was accused of killing his wife and her friend (- he probably did kill them). But the court found him 'not guilty'. And as our Indian friends like to inform us (vis-a-vis Modi), if a court says you're innocent, then you're innocent, whether you actually committed the crime or not. (In the same way as our Indian friends claim Modi is innocent, because he was found 'not guilty' by the Indian legal system, of being responsible for the mass murder of thousands).
 
See post #11 above

I know, the comparison to hating Hitler was a joke, one man who actually gassed massive numbers of an ethnic group and another who was accused of killing his wife and declared innocent. It was ridiculous, I've never followed OJ Simpson's case so I don't have an opinion of him either way
 
I know, the comparison to hating Hitler was a joke, one man who actually gassed massive numbers of an ethnic group and another who was accused of killing his wife and declared innocent. It was ridiculous, I've never followed OJ Simpson's case so I don't have an opinion of him either way
Generally speaking, most black Americans thought he was framed, whilst most white Americans thought he was guilty. Perhaps because he's black and his victims were white.
Furthermore, it is highly likely that he was setup for the 'robbery' crime for which he was sentenced to prison, by those who felt he escaped justice in the murder case and they needed another way to put him in jail.
 
Generally speaking, most black Americans thought he was framed, whilst most white Americans thought he was guilty. Perhaps because he's black and his victims were white.
Furthermore, it is highly likely that he was setup for the 'robbery' crime for which he was sentenced to prison, by those who felt he escaped justice in the murder case and they needed another way to put him in jail.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. American politics has had its fair share of conspiracies and controversies
 
I know, the comparison to hating Hitler was a joke, one man who actually gassed massive numbers of an ethnic group and another who was accused of killing his wife and declared innocent. It was ridiculous, I've never followed OJ Simpson's case so I don't have an opinion of him either way

Did you even read my post? I never compared OJ to Hitler. The poster said this -

Surely love or hate should be for someone one knows personally, and/or whose actions have directly impacted upon one's life?

And then I gave the argument about why Hitler is generally despised by so many people since he never harmed their personal life in any way.
 
Last edited:
He was accused of killing his wife and her friend (- he probably did kill them). But the court found him 'not guilty'. And as our Indian friends like to inform us (vis-a-vis Modi), if a court says you're innocent, then you're innocent, whether you actually committed the crime or not. (In the same way as our Indian friends claim Modi is innocent, because he was found 'not guilty' by the Indian legal system, of being responsible for the mass murder of thousands).
[MENTION=133315]Hitman[/MENTION] what have you got to say ?
 
[MENTION=133315]Hitman[/MENTION] what have you got to say ?

My two cents here. Modi never murdered anyone himself, it is accused by a lot of people that him not taking appropriate action to stop the riots resulted in a lot of people being killed. I have no idea regarding the set of evidence presented against Modi in the court, so I can't really comment on the trial. But just saying, if those evidences were weak or not strong enough then further strong evidences should have been provided if available.

In OJ's case the evidences provided in the court are there for everyone to see and analyze. Anyone who thoroughly investigates the case will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's guilty. And if anyone still had any doubt, reading OJ's book will simply remove all doubts that he is indeed guilty.
 
[MENTION=133315]Hitman[/MENTION] Kevin Nash tweeted he still has a soft spot for OJ as he was his childhood hero he looked up to. I vaguely followed the case , what did OJ do again? Killed his wife ?

BTW, anything Big Lazy says should be taken with a pinch of salt. The guy's comments and his views usually are just as hollow as his contribution to the wrestling business.
 
My two cents here. Modi never murdered anyone himself, it is accused by a lot of people that him not taking appropriate action to stop the riots resulted in a lot of people being killed. I have no idea regarding the set of evidence presented against Modi in the court, so I can't really comment on the trial. But just saying, if those evidences were weak or not strong enough then further strong evidences should have been provided if available.

In OJ's case the evidences provided in the court are there for everyone to see and analyze. Anyone who thoroughly investigates the case will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's guilty. And if anyone still had any doubt, reading OJ's book will simply remove all doubts that he is indeed guilty.

Now if you ask my personal opinion, I'll have to say that I do believe Modi was guilty at least to an extent.

Fair enough
 
My two cents here. Modi never murdered anyone himself, it is accused by a lot of people that him not taking appropriate action to stop the riots resulted in a lot of people being killed. I have no idea regarding the set of evidence presented against Modi in the court, so I can't really comment on the trial. But just saying, if those evidences were weak or not strong enough then further strong evidences should have been provided if available.

In OJ's case the evidences provided in the court are there for everyone to see and analyze. Anyone who thoroughly investigates the case will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's guilty. And if anyone still had any doubt, reading OJ's book will simply remove all doubts that he is indeed guilty.
And yet an American jury, and not one from some tinpot ruled country (or one where the accused was the Chief Minister of a state with a 60+ million population), in a trial televised live all over the world, found OJ Simpson not guilty.

Now whilst I personally believe OJ Simpson did do the killings, nevertheless the OJ Simpson trial, and the verdict reached by the American jury, is far more likely to be fair and impartial than the Indian courts politically motivated verdict on Modi.

And since you bring up the case of Hitler, and your assertion that "Modi never murdered anyone himself" (Modi had others do the dirty work), similarly Hitler just like Modi, "never murdered anyone himself", he had others do the mass murder.

Equating Hitler with Modi is far more apt than your equating Hitler with OJ Simpson.
 
And yet an American jury, and not one from some tinpot ruled country (or one where the accused was the Chief Minister of a state with a 60+ million population), in a trial televised live all over the world, found OJ Simpson not guilty.

Now whilst I personally believe OJ Simpson did do the killings, nevertheless the OJ Simpson trial, and the verdict reached by the American jury, is far more likely to be fair and impartial than the Indian courts politically motivated verdict on Modi.

And since you bring up the case of Hitler, and your assertion that "Modi never murdered anyone himself" (Modi had others do the dirty work), similarly Hitler just like Modi, "never murdered anyone himself", he had others do the mass murder.

equating Hitler with Modi is far more apt than your equating Hitler with OJ Simpson.

Good points. [MENTION=133315]Hitman[/MENTION] do you recognise the incompetence of the Indian courts compared to American ones and potential coruption or were the evidences not enough for you to accept a guilty verdict when it came to Modi. You do admit he is to blame to an extent, who else do you feel were the instrumental culprits
 
OJ Simpson will always be remembered in history as a abit of a wally.

Looks like the last laugh is his tho and he can get out on Parole
 
He was completely innocent framed by the racist American police and pro Israeli media.

There was a case going on in the UK at similar time of the murder of Stephen Lawrence and the systemic racism of the met police protecting the killers of one who was father was a drug lord

Rip oj .
 
Good riddance! I've read his book 'If I Did It'. The guy basically confesses to everything.
 
Good riddance! I've read his book 'If I Did It'. The guy basically confesses to everything.
there is one theory that it was his son who murdered her and he was trying to cover for him. His son was mentally not very stable.
 
there is one theory that it was his son who murdered her and he was trying to cover for him. His son was mentally not very stable.
Just a wild theory, and I've heard that. It's a joke that he got away with butchering 2 people is cold blood.
 
Just a wild theory, and I've heard that. It's a joke that he got away with butchering 2 people is cold blood.
what is really disturbing that after he got away and goes home, the first thing he does is go around celebrate hosting dinners.

Like come on, you had kids with her whose mother is dead and killer (assuming his innocence) was still not caught.

I think that celebration gave it away that the guy got away with the murder. His lawyers basically used the race card and made the whole thing about race to get away with it
 
what is really disturbing that after he got away and goes home, the first thing he does is go around celebrate hosting dinners.

Like come on, you had kids with her whose mother is dead and killer (assuming his innocence) was still not caught.

I think that celebration gave it away that the guy got away with the murder. His lawyers basically used the race card and made the whole thing about race to get away with it

I really feel for Nicole Brown's family including her children, and Fred Goldman and Kim Goldman (Ron Goldman's father and younger sister respectively). While Nicole's family hasn't spoken much, Fred and Kim has often expressed their views over the years. The hate they have for O.J. and the pain they have gone through, not even my worst enemy should go through this. Imagine you know that someone killed your son or brother mercilessly, and he gets away with it. He remains a free man and shows no remourse for his actions. I'd probably take the law in my own hands.​
 
what is really disturbing that after he got away and goes home, the first thing he does is go around celebrate hosting dinners.

Like come on, you had kids with her whose mother is dead and killer (assuming his innocence) was still not caught.

I think that celebration gave it away that the guy got away with the murder. His lawyers basically used the race card and made the whole thing about race to get away with it
Bro, read his book titled 'If I Did It'. Although I hate that piece of garbage from the core of my gut, I'd still recommend you to read his book. You wouldn't have any doubts after you read it.
 
Then there's Christy Prody, his girlfriend after a few months of Nicole's death. She even stood by him during his armed robbery case. She claims on TV that when their fights would get heated, O.J. would be like, 'You better watch out! Or you're gonna end up like Nicole'.​
 
Executor of OJ Simpson's will wants to block $33.5m payout to families

The executor of OJ Simpson’s estate has said he will try to prevent a $33.5m (£27m) payout to the families of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman.

The former NFL star and Hollywood actor was cleared of their double murder in 1995 in what was dubbed the "trial of the century" but later found liable for the deaths in a civil lawsuit.

Simpson died on Wednesday aged 76 from cancer without having paid the majority of the 1997 judgment but the Goldman and Brown families could be in line to get some of what he left behind.

His will was filed in a Clark County court in Nevada on Friday, naming his lawyer Malcolm LaVergne as the executor.

The document shows Simpson's property was placed into a trust that was created this year, but Mr LaVergne told the Las Vegas Review-Journal his entire estate has not yet been tallied.

The will lists his four children and notes that any beneficiary who seeks to challenge provisions of the will "shall receive, free of trust, one dollar and no more in lieu of any claimed interest in this will or its assets".

Mr LaVergne, who had represented Simpson since 2009, said he specifically did not want the Goldman family seeing any money from Simpson's estate.

"It's my hope that the Goldmans get zero, nothing," he told the Review-Journal. "Them specifically. And I will do everything in my capacity as the executor or personal representative to try and ensure that they get nothing."

Hundreds of valuable possessions had been seized as part of the jury award and Simpson said he lived only on his NFL and private pensions.

Simpson, nicknamed "The Juice", was acquitted after a 1995 criminal trial watched by millions worldwide, where he famously tried on a pair of blood-stained gloves allegedly found at the scene of the crime.

The gloves appeared to be too small, leading defence attorney Johnnie Cochran to say: "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."

Speaking to Sky News following Simpson's death, the Goldman family's lawyer David Cook said: "I review and consider Simpson as what he was: that he was a bad person; he was a murderer; he got out of the acquittal here.

"He remains now and in his death as the day that he committed the crime in whatever the amount of years ago.

"He's still the same person. And the fact that he died doesn't change it."

Mr Goldman's father Fred Goldman told Sky's partner network NBC News earlier that Simpson's death was "no great loss".

"The only thing I have to say is it's just a further reminder of Ron being gone all these years," he said.

"It's no great loss to the world. It's a further reminder of Ron being gone."

SOURCE: SKY NEWS
 
Back
Top