Thomas Riccio, the collectibles auctioneer who set up the meeting between O.J. Simpson and several collectors that ended with Simpson found guilty for twelve counts of kidnapping and robbery, has told the New York Post that O.J. “doesn’t deserve 8,000 years plus double life for this,” arguing that greedy associates and the public contempt for Simpson did him in.
[It's] not like he actually planned an armed robbery. He was just stupid. I told him up front, ‘Have security next door monitoring what goes down because… who knows…’ And he said, ‘No, I got my own guys with me. It’s okay.’ It’s his guys [who] did him in. They set him up. They even had a video camera on him so they could sell it afterward…Simply saying, ‘No one leaves the room until we get this figured out’ constitutes kidnapping in Nevada. That automatically gets you life...
Listen, they wanted to get him, so they got him. I’m impartial. I’m only saying this: he didn’t deserve it. But 98 per cent of the people want him put away forever. Everyone hates him.
It should be noted that the “impartial” Riccio has released a book, Busted!, about the Vegas arrest. Simpson, who faces sentencing in December, is already planning to appeal. If the court decides the jury acted impartially, he won’t get “8,000 years plus double life.” But the counts could still cumulatively put him away for good.
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October 10th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
You do the crime you do the time. Boo hoo OJ . He’s should be thankfull he’s been out of prison this long. I can’t believe he actually had the balls to involve himself in a hiest with those morons. Greedy )*)%!*+++##!+_)$*@#