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O.J. Sentenced to Prison

Karma has a way of coming back to haunt you. Let’s take a hypothetical situation: a man ends up stabbing his ex-wife and her lover. Man gets off scott free, minus a loss in civil court. Man vows to find ex-wife’s killer, yet seems to be playing more golf than anything. Man goes nuts, basically commits armed robbery and kidnapping. At this point it only seems fitting in this 100% hypothetical situation that the said man ends up getting a prison sentence that’s going to last the rest of his life, amIright? Well, enough with this tomfoolery, let’s get back on subject.

Things are a little confusing on the outcome of The Juice’s sentencing. OJ was convicted on 12 counts by a jury, and the judge gave him anywhere between 6 to 33 years in jail, depending on what source you’re going by. At this point, I’m pretty sure it’s around 33 years, with the possibility of parole popping up in 9.  Why is this all so confusing?

Much confusion over the O.J. sentences. Media reports have it all over the place from a six years to as much as 33 with parole eligibiltiy in a decade.

Why the confusion? In sentencing him on the 12 charges he was convicted of by a jury, hanging judge Jackie Glass sentenced him to a complex series of concurrent and consecutive sentences.

In the U.S., unlike Canada, criminals often get consecutive sentences. That means if you are found guilty on two charges, one for eight years and the other for 10, then you are serving 18 years as the sentences follow each other. With concurrent sentences, however, they overlap and you serve the longest.

However, you also have to factor in parole eligibility and then it’s a real mess. the Associated Press seems to have the best take on it,  at least until the lawyers sort it out. They quote the judge’s clerk as saying it could be a maximum of 33 years, but eligible for parole after nine.

Guess that’s better than had he been convicted in his murder trial, where he could have faced the death penalty. Though at 61, 33 years is essentially a death sentence.

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  • 13 years to the day after O.J. was found not guilty for first-degree murder in a Los Angeles County Court Room, he was found guilt in the Las Vegas robbery and kidnapping trial. O.J. was convicted of all 12 counts, a few of which include 1st degree kidnapping with use of deadly weapon, 1st degree assault with a deadly weapon, and 1st degree robbery with a deadly weapon. I find this whole situation rather ironic, and super shitty for the Juice at the same time. First, he got away with murdering his wife and her lover in what was The Trial of The Century, and now he’s going to jail for a long time for threatening to kill someone if they didn’t give him his valuables that he said were rightfully his to begin with. HOWEVER, like everyone else that saw O.J. get away with murder I was happy to see him convicted of something, but unfortunately a little bit of me feels really bad for O.J. because there was no way in HELL he got a “fair” trial; something which is a right of all US citizens. Regardless of how you feel about his murder acquittal, I have a strange feeling this jury was somehow making up for the huge mistake of letting him go 13 years ago. How on God’s green earth are you going to find someone who doesn’t have some feeling of what happened in the murder trial? Not unless they are Amish or lived under a rock in the mid-late 90’s. O.J. could face as little as 15 years and as much as life imprison for his Vegas conviction. The sentencing is set for December 5th, and I don’t know about everyone else but I hope they throw is 61 year old ass in jail for the rest of his life, if not for any reason other that how fucking dumb this man is. He could have got in trouble for stealing a pack of gum, and he would have got the book thrown at him and if he was to retarded to know that, he deserves to be in prison for a while. And not just a minimum security resort prison, but a federal get pounded in the ass prison.

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  • OMG - Rocktober Third!!11

    Here’s some historical things that happened on this third day of Rocktober:

    1849 - American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death. Coooool.

    1985 - Space Shuttle Atlantis flies its maiden voyage. (STS-51-J)

    1995 - O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.

    1969 - Gwen Stefani, (No Doubt) is born. Chick is 38?! Hard to believe.

    1972 - Garrett Dutton, (G. Love and Special Sauce) SYNTHESIS LOVES YOU, G!

    Happy Rocktober 3rd, y’all!

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