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LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas jury found former football star O.J. Simpson guilty Friday on all charges in his armed robbery and kidnapping trial. The 61-year-old Simpson faces a prison sentence of 15 years to life.
The verdict was read aloud at around 10:50 p.m. PT in Clark County District Court.
Co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart was also found guilty on 12 criminal charges in the alleged gunpoint robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in a casino hotel room last year.
Prosecutor Chris Owens said Simpson planned ? and Stewart, Simpson's golfing buddy, helped carry out ? a plot to retrieve personal items that Simpson lost after squirreling them away to avoid turning them over to Goldman's family to satisfy part of a $33.5 million civil wrongful death judgment levied in 1997 by a California court.
Owens told the jury to convict Simpson, denouncing him for "arrogance'' of thinking he could commit a crime "against the dignity and the peace of the state of Nevada.''
"The kind of arrogance ... that would make them think they could come in and get away with this kind of crime and that nobody would report it and they thought they could spin it that, 'It's all OK; It was my stuff.'''
Simpson's lawyer, Yale Galanter, told the jury the prosecution didn't prove Simpson was guilty in the criminal case that he said "has taken on a life of its own because of Mr. Simpson's involvement.''
"Every cooperator, every person who had a gun, every person who had an ulterior motive, every person who signed a book deal, every person who got paid money - the police, the district attorney's office, is only interested in one thing: Mr. Simpson,'' Galanter said. "He has always been the target of this investigation, and nothing else mattered.''
The verdict was read aloud at around 10:50 p.m. PT in Clark County District Court.
Co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart was also found guilty on 12 criminal charges in the alleged gunpoint robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in a casino hotel room last year.
Prosecutor Chris Owens said Simpson planned ? and Stewart, Simpson's golfing buddy, helped carry out ? a plot to retrieve personal items that Simpson lost after squirreling them away to avoid turning them over to Goldman's family to satisfy part of a $33.5 million civil wrongful death judgment levied in 1997 by a California court.
Owens told the jury to convict Simpson, denouncing him for "arrogance'' of thinking he could commit a crime "against the dignity and the peace of the state of Nevada.''
"The kind of arrogance ... that would make them think they could come in and get away with this kind of crime and that nobody would report it and they thought they could spin it that, 'It's all OK; It was my stuff.'''
Simpson's lawyer, Yale Galanter, told the jury the prosecution didn't prove Simpson was guilty in the criminal case that he said "has taken on a life of its own because of Mr. Simpson's involvement.''
"Every cooperator, every person who had a gun, every person who had an ulterior motive, every person who signed a book deal, every person who got paid money - the police, the district attorney's office, is only interested in one thing: Mr. Simpson,'' Galanter said. "He has always been the target of this investigation, and nothing else mattered.''
its about time, it sure took them long to find his ass guilty