The Juice ... At It Again
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Las Vegas police questioned O.J. Simpson after a memorabilia dealer told them the former football star and murder defendant robbed him at gunpoint in a Las Vegas casino hotel room, police and other sources said on Friday.
Simpson was questioned about Thursday night's hotel room confrontation but was not taken into custody, a Las Vegas police spokeswoman said.
The spokeswoman said the matter was still under investigation and declined to provide further details before a news conference scheduled for later on Friday.
A lawyer for Fred Goldman, the father of one of two people Simpson was accused of stabbing to death in 1994, said the sports memorabilia dealer, Alfred Beardsley, had reported the robbery to police.
"I was told by Mr. Beardsley that he was robbed at gunpoint by O.J. Simpson in a hotel room in Las Vegas," said Goldman lawyer David Cook. "He has given a report to the Las Vegas police."
Beardsley confirmed to Reuters that he had filed a police report about the altercation. He said detectives had asked him not to speak to reporters while the investigation was under way.
An attorney for Simpson could not immediately be reached for comment and a number at his home in Florida was disconnected. Simpson was believed to be in Las Vegas.
The report of a break-in and Simpson's possible involvement comes the same day his ghost-written book, "If I Did It," hit retail shelves.
The book includes a chapter in which Simpson gives a hypothetical account of how he might have killed his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, on June 12, 1994.
Simpson, a star running back turned television pitchman and actor, was acquitted of the murders in 1995 at the end of a sensational criminal trial in Los Angeles.
A California jury later ruled in a civil suit brought by the victims' families that he was responsible for their deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages to the Brown and Goldman families.
Cook said that he would go to court on Monday and ask a judge to order that Simpson turn over to Goldman any memorabilia items taken in the incident.
(Additional reporting by Jill Serjeant and Bob Tourtellotte)
Simpson was questioned about Thursday night's hotel room confrontation but was not taken into custody, a Las Vegas police spokeswoman said.
The spokeswoman said the matter was still under investigation and declined to provide further details before a news conference scheduled for later on Friday.
A lawyer for Fred Goldman, the father of one of two people Simpson was accused of stabbing to death in 1994, said the sports memorabilia dealer, Alfred Beardsley, had reported the robbery to police.
"I was told by Mr. Beardsley that he was robbed at gunpoint by O.J. Simpson in a hotel room in Las Vegas," said Goldman lawyer David Cook. "He has given a report to the Las Vegas police."
Beardsley confirmed to Reuters that he had filed a police report about the altercation. He said detectives had asked him not to speak to reporters while the investigation was under way.
An attorney for Simpson could not immediately be reached for comment and a number at his home in Florida was disconnected. Simpson was believed to be in Las Vegas.
The report of a break-in and Simpson's possible involvement comes the same day his ghost-written book, "If I Did It," hit retail shelves.
The book includes a chapter in which Simpson gives a hypothetical account of how he might have killed his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, on June 12, 1994.
Simpson, a star running back turned television pitchman and actor, was acquitted of the murders in 1995 at the end of a sensational criminal trial in Los Angeles.
A California jury later ruled in a civil suit brought by the victims' families that he was responsible for their deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages to the Brown and Goldman families.
Cook said that he would go to court on Monday and ask a judge to order that Simpson turn over to Goldman any memorabilia items taken in the incident.
(Additional reporting by Jill Serjeant and Bob Tourtellotte)
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<< <i>IMHO Ron Goldman is no better than OJ. Fact is he had nothing to do with his son until after he was killed. He is no better. >>
are you kidding me? if you truly believe this, you need to re-think life.
also, Ron Goldman is dead, OJ tried to decapitate him. I believe you're talking about his father Fred.
<< <i>OOPS meant fred and anyone who thinks he is anything more than a money grubbing bottom feeder needs to rethink their lives. Fred Goldman and his son Ron were astranged at the time of Ron's death. If Fred Goldman really loved his son he WOULD NOT have published OJs book.. PERIOD END OF STORY... >>
you don't have children do you? do you think because a parent and child are "estranged" at the time means that they don't love each other?
you must be of the opinion OJ is innocent, right? Otherwise, how could you possibly compare a violent double-murderer to an "estranged" father.
OJ is guilty we all know that, BUT he was found innocent or Not guilty. Based on the way the case was presented th Jury did what they were instructed all the defense had to do was put a small doubt in the minds of ONE juror. Nothing we can do about that.
So tell me why would a loving Father, be so worried about the money in this situation. It has always been about the money with him. Why would a loving father allow a book he owns to be published that tells HOW the son he LOVED so much was brutally murdered? FOR THE MONEY.. PLAIN AND SIMPLE.....
BTW the book ironclly the book finally gets published on the same day OJ is named as a suspect in this robbery. Which listening to the details coming out sounds like set-up.. Why hasn't there been a police report filed?
<< <i>There are times when even family bonds can be broken I think there was nothing there UNTIL after his son was killed. >>
Death has a way of healing the gaps between the dead and their family. Even if it takes a while. I guess Fred took a while to realize that there were too many words left unsaid between him and his son, and when he saw OJ get off for free, he took it personally and has dedicated his life to making OJ's miserable.
The Goldmans OWN OJ. Anything they do is just to make OJ suffer, as that is the only legal thing they can do to extract their revenge on him.
A pathetic way to live one's life, but that's how they decided to cope.
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<< <i>CAN YOU NOT READ?? I said he was NO BETTER THAN OJ. I have kids and know this stuff, but he did not EVEN attend his son's funeral. There are times when even family bonds can be broken I think there was nothing there UNTIL after his son was killed. I know you obviously live a sheltered life where everthing is perfect, but stuff like this does happen. Fred Goldman is a GOLDDIGGER.
OJ is guilty we all know that, BUT he was found innocent or Not guilty. Based on the way the case was presented th Jury did what they were instructed all the defense had to do was put a small doubt in the minds of ONE juror. Nothing we can do about that. >>
absolutely i can read, and saying he is "no better" than a man who premeditated and hid out to murder a woman and man by stabbing them about 50 times and trying to cut their heads off, is just not an intelligent comparison to make..
sheltered life? i'm not sure where that fits into the equation, and i don't believe you know anything about me at all, so you're statement about "knowing" anything is again, not an intelligent thing to say.. a more intelligent statement would have been "i guess you live a sheltered life"..
anyway, so you admit that OJ is guilty of murder, yet you say Fred Goldman is no better and he is a golddigger.. so we now know in your life, that you consider golddiggers to be the same as brutal murderers.. ok, that makes sense..
O.J. thought this would help promote his new book today. Oh wait a minute, it's not his book anymore.
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Maybe this time a jury can get it right!!! "If" a gun was used/flashed in any manner, in Las Vegas it don't matter if the gun was in your hand or not, You will serve some serious jail time, first offense or not. Read the statutes.
NRS 205.060 Burglary: Definition; penalties; venue.
1. A person who, by day or night, enters any house, room, apartment, tenement, shop, warehouse, store, mill, barn, stable, outhouse or other building, tent, vessel, vehicle, vehicle trailer, semitrailer or house trailer, airplane, glider, boat or railroad car, with the intent to commit grand or petit larceny, assault or battery on any person or any felony, or to obtain money or property by false pretenses, is guilty of burglary.
2. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person convicted of burglary is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 10 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $10,000. A person who is convicted of burglary and who has previously been convicted of burglary or another crime involving the forcible entry or invasion of a dwelling must not be released on probation or granted a suspension of his sentence.
3. Whenever a burglary is committed on a vessel, vehicle, vehicle trailer, semitrailer, house trailer, airplane, glider, boat or railroad car, in motion or in rest, in this State, and it cannot with reasonable certainty be ascertained in what county the crime was committed, the offender may be arrested and tried in any county through which the vessel, vehicle, vehicle trailer, semitrailer, house trailer, airplane, glider, boat or railroad car traveled during the time the burglary was committed.
4. A person convicted of burglary who has in his possession or gains possession of any firearm or deadly weapon at any time during the commission of the crime, at any time before leaving the structure or upon leaving the structure, is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 2 years and a maximum term of not more than 15 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $10,000.
[1911 C&P § 369; A 1953, 31]—(NRS A 1967, 494; 1968, 45; 1971, 1161; 1979, 1440; 1981, 551; 1983, 717; 1989, 1207; 1995, 1215; 2005, 416)
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