12-05-2008, 02:28 PM
O.J. Simpson was sentenced to 15 years in jail today for his role in a kidnapping and armed robbery in Las Vegas - 13 years to the day after he was cleared of double murder in America's "trial of the century".
The former American football star recruited five other men to help him rob two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room on September 13 last year, a jury at Clark County District Court found.
He was convicted of all 12 charges he faced in October after more than 13 continuous hours of jury deliberations.
Simpson will serve a minimum of nine years in jail before being eligible for parole, meaning he will be at least 70 before being released.
Judge Jackie Glass told Simpson he knew what he was doing and that his actions were "much more than stupidity".
"You went to the room, you took guns... you used force, you took property... and in this state that amounts to robbery with use of a deadly weapon," she said.
The former American football star recruited five other men to help him rob two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room on September 13 last year, a jury at Clark County District Court found.
He was convicted of all 12 charges he faced in October after more than 13 continuous hours of jury deliberations.
Simpson will serve a minimum of nine years in jail before being eligible for parole, meaning he will be at least 70 before being released.
Judge Jackie Glass told Simpson he knew what he was doing and that his actions were "much more than stupidity".
"You went to the room, you took guns... you used force, you took property... and in this state that amounts to robbery with use of a deadly weapon," she said.
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