http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ojsimpson/ en-us Sat, 6 Mar 2010 00:38:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2465169/posts LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The principal of a South Los Angeles elementary school has apologized after some children carried photos of O.J. Simpson, RuPaul and Dennis Rodman in a parade celebrating Black History Month. "Unfortunately, questionable decisions were made in the selection of noteworthy African-American role models," Lorraine Abner wrote Thursday in a letter sent to parents of students at Wadsworth Avenue Elementary School.... hosted http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2465169/posts#comment Sat, 6 Mar 2010 00:38:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2462545/posts With O.J. Simpson giving his agreement from prison, a judge approved a plan Monday to donate the suit the former NFL star was wearing when he was acquitted of murder to the Smithsonian Institution. The deal ends a 13-year legal battle between Simpson's former sports agent Mike Gilbert and Fred Goldman, the father of the man Simpson was accused of killing in 1994. Both men claimed the right to the suit, shirt and tie Simpson was wearing Oct. 3, 1995, when he was acquitted of killing ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman after a trial that riveted... AP via Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2462545/posts#comment Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:21:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2430552/posts The Nevada Supreme Court said a judge in Clark County, Nev., should have given the media access to questionnaires from ex-athlete O.J. Simpson's robbery trial. The Nevada Supreme Court voted 6-0 Thursday that Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass's decision to deny the press access to jury questionnaires from the 2008 trial was ill-advised given the press's First Amendment rights, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Friday. The state's top court said Glass's promise to jurors to keep the questionnaires confidential "does not supersede the public's and press's First Amendment right to access criminal proceedings." Court justices said they ruled on... upi http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2430552/posts#comment Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:02:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2402384/posts Watch out for the losing streak.. LOVELOCK - USA - Fallen golf star, Tiger Woods, today visited another fallen sports star, O.J. Simpson in prison. No one knows what was said between the two disgraced American stars but one thing is for sure, there must have been some brotherly advise handed down to the newly fallen Woods. Simpson is currently serving a nine year sentence in a Nevada prison for theft. "Tiger is new to disgrace, so we think O.J. must have just told him to shrug his shoulders and take the beating like a man. O.J. is certainly no... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2402384/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:57:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402353/posts OJ Simpson beaten in prison, race incident, currently in hospital, sources claim... NATIONAL ENQUIRER to report details later in week... Developing... Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402353/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:13:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2326896/posts This isn't an accusation from Ted Kennedy's political opponents, but a nostalgic remembrance by one of his friends. Ed Klein, former Newsweek editor, tells the Diane Rehm Show: "I dont know if you know this or not, but one of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself. And he would ask people, have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick? That is just the most amazing thing. Its not that he didnt feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things,... YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2326896/posts#comment Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:49:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2325222/posts Excerpt: "OJ SIMPSON - GREATEST FOOTBALL PLAYER OF OUR TIME ...President Obama...pushed me a little too hard. Did he have to say that Senator Kennedy, “became the greatest United States Senator of our time” ? That’s going a just a Tad (or a Ted) too far. Would President Obama also say that “O.J. Simpson became the greatest professional football player of our time?”... ...(Kennedy)has had some very questionable history, including one incident in which his actions may have cost another person’s life. That hardly makes one great and surely means the person will never be “the greatest” anything. ... ConservativeAmerican.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2325222/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:58:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307465/posts Lawyers for the former football great appear before a panel of the state Supreme Court to seek Simpson's release while he appeals his armed-robbery and kidnapping conviction.Reporting from Las Vegas -- Nevada Supreme Court justices appeared cool today to arguments from O.J. Simpson's attorneys that the former football star be granted bail while he appeals his armed-robbery and kidnapping conviction. Simpson attorney Yale Galanter said the notoriety of the NFL Hall of Fame running back, who was famously acquitted of a 1994 double murder in Los Angeles, made it impossible for him to flee if he's released on bail. "Mr.... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307465/posts#comment Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:55:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307311/posts LAS VEGAS (AP) - A trio of Nevada Supreme Court justices is considering whether to let O.J. Simpson and a former golfing buddy out of prison while the full court reviews their convictions for a gunpoint hotel room heist. State-Run Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307311/posts#comment Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:00:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2301119/posts LOS ANGELES — O.J. Simpson filed a declaration in court Friday claiming that several items seized by authorities following the bungled hotel heist that sent him to prison are rightfully his and should be returned. The declaration in Superior Court lists numerous signed footballs Simpson says he was awarded during his glory days as a college and pro athlete in the 1960s and 1970s. Others include ties Simpson says he wore during his murder trial and a picture he says the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover gave him. hostednews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2301119/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:33:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296275/posts LAS VEGAS - Few in Nevada legal circles believe O.J. Simpson has any real chance at freedom when the state's Supreme Court justices consider letting him trade a prison cell in rural northern Nevada for a golf course in Miami while he appeals his conviction in a gunpoint hotel room heist. What really has them abuzz is that Nevada's only appellate court agreed to schedule oral arguments Aug. 3 to hear Simpson's plea to be allowed to post bond. "It's unusual. This is a situation where the Nevada Supreme Court might be accused of politics or being star-struck," said Michael... CJAD Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296275/posts#comment Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:17:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276736/posts No, I don't think Obama is another OJ Simpson. The two men could not be more different. It's a common marketing strategy that links them. White guilt and that ache for black vindication were a huge part of OJ's celebrity campaign. That's also what got Obama elected over Hillary and then McCain. David Axelrod as a PR maven had obviously studied the opinion polls about black celebrities. They knew that a black man who looked and sounded good on TV could roll over the opposition; the media wouldn't dare to examine his background. OJ had demonstrated it, along with Oprah... American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276736/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:30:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276655/posts No, I don't think Obama is another OJ Simpson. The two men could not be more different. It's a common marketing strategy that links them. White guilt and that ache for black vindication were a huge part of OJ's celebrity campaign. That's also what got Obama elected over Hillary and then McCain. David Axelrod as a PR maven had obviously studied the opinion polls about black celebrities. They knew that a black man who looked and sounded good on TV could roll over the opposition; the media wouldn't dare to examine his background. OJ had demonstrated it, along with Oprah... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276655/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:14:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2270465/posts LOS ANGELES -- Much has changed in the 15 years that have passed since the murders of O.J. Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. The Brentwood condominium where the two were found brutally stabbed to death on the night of June 12, 1994 is now barely recognizable. The new owners have changed the facade of the building on Bundy Drive and given it a new entryway. The owners apparently grew tired of tour buses driving by and gawkers taking pictures. The once nearby Mezzaluna Restaurant, where Nicole had her last meal, has been replaced by a... ktla http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2270465/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:16:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262297/posts Footballs, jerseys and other O.J. Simpson memorabilia used as evidence in the former NFL star’s armed robbery and kidnapping trial in Las Vegas are now in a Santa Monica courthouse awaiting a sheriff’s sale, according to a lawyer for Fred Goldman. The items are to be sold to satisfy part of the $33.5-million civil judgment against Simpson in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole, and Goldman’s son, Ron, the lawyer said. A spokesman for the L.A. Sheriff’s Department, asked to confirm this information, said he was checking into the matter. A Las Vegas jury convicted Simpson in October of a... latimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262297/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 18:12:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2199936/posts [video] Here’s a deep philosophical question for you to consider: Is it possible to be a rap artist without being a complete idiot? Kanye West, the simple-minded rapper who’s most famous for saying “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” has offered up a few more brilliant observations. While taping a program for VH1, West recently expressed opinions on a wide range of people he apparently likes better than Bush. “Can’t we give Chris a break,” he said about girlfriend-beating singer Chris Brown, “…I know I make mistakes in life.” “Michael Jackson, amazing. Michael Phelps, amazing… [...more] IHateTheMedia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2199936/posts#comment Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:26:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148246/posts A key witness in O.J. Simpson's Las Vegas trial acknowledged to a Nevada investigator that the former NFL star paid him off, the investigator told a judge in Santa Monica this morning. The investigator from the Clark County district attorney's office said Alfred Beardsley admitted that Simpson gave him his Hall of Fame ring in exchange for altering his testimony to help the defenseI asked what did you get to change your testimony," said Bill Falkner, who worked with prosecutors building the armed robbery and kidnapping case against Simpson. The answer, he said, was the Hall of Fame ring. The... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148246/posts#comment Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:27:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147341/posts In this show I interview Tony Blankley, former speech writer for Ronald Reagan and Press Secretary for Newt Gingrich and author of the book "The Wests Last Chance" We also discuss the OJ Simpson verdict and other social issues. Another thought provoking show. The Conscience of Kansas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147341/posts#comment Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:31:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145299/posts America was a different country in 1995, when the most-watched murder trial of the 20th century saw an overwhelmingly black jury find O J Simpson innocent of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. It seemed like delayed justice when the former footballer was sentenced to a minimum of nine years' jail yesterday for his role in an armed raid on a Las Vegas hotel room in 2007, during which two dealers were robbed of sports memorabilia. There was none of the rancour that accompanied the murder acquittal or the civil trial, when a predominantly white jury... The Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145299/posts#comment Tue, 9 Dec 2008 03:45:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2144475/posts In our continuing celebration of the triumph of justice in Las Vegas, we bring you some helpful Christmas ideas for the avid readers in your family. More . . . The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2144475/posts#comment Sun, 7 Dec 2008 16:35:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2143748/posts Okay, I keep hearing from different media outlets that OJ will be in jail for 9 years, others 33 years or 19 years and he will be eligible for parole sometime in between. The #*!# dinosaur media can't seem to make up its mind! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2143748/posts#comment Sat, 6 Dec 2008 00:04:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2143729/posts Hands down the best videos of the week. Whiny murderer. No B.S. judge. Victorious Fred Goldman. More . . . The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2143729/posts#comment Fri, 5 Dec 2008 23:37:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2143623/posts O.J. sentenced to as much as 33 years for robbery Dec 5 03:38 PM US/Eastern By KEN RITTER LAS VEGAS (AP) - A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as much as 33 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity." The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled and stone-faced when Judge Jackie Glass quickly rattled off his punishment soon after he made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, choking back tears as he told her: "I didn't want to steal anything from anyone.... AP via Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2143623/posts#comment Fri, 5 Dec 2008 20:51:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2143598/posts Las Vegas Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2143598/posts#comment Fri, 5 Dec 2008 20:09:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143567/posts America breathed a collective sigh of relief tonight with the belief that one-time sports hero O.J. Simpson didn’t really get away with murder, after all. For thirteen years, the unease over Simpson’s infamous 1995 acquittal for the murders of his wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman, ate away at the national conscience. The sense of racial outrage that surrounded the so-called ‘trial of the century’ faded away over time to leave Simpson a pariah, shunned in all the society and celebrity circles where he once shined. Daily Mail UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143567/posts#comment Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:04:54 GMT