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Jury selection starts in O.J. Simpson case
Monday, September 08, 2008 | No comments posted.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nearly a year after O.J. Simpson walked into a casino hotel room intent on reclaiming some sports memorobilia, lawyers in his robbery-kidnapping trial are finally set to begin picking a jury.
What figures to be a lengthy jury selection is scheduled to start today in a Nevada court for the fallen NFL star, actor and advertising pitchman, and his remaining co-defendant, Clarence “C.J” Stewart, a 54-year-old golfing buddy from North Las Vegas.
Both men have pleaded not guilty to 12 charges stemming from a heated encounter last September with two sports collectibles dealers peddling Simpson memorabilia.
Simpson said last fall that he put his faith in the jury system and was confident of an acquittal. A conviction could put him away for life.
“If I have any disappointment it’s that I wish a jury was here,” Simpson said in November, after a contentious four-day preliminary hearing in which prosecution witnesses were cast as opportunists, pimps, con artists and crooks.
What figures to be a lengthy jury selection is scheduled to start today in a Nevada court for the fallen NFL star, actor and advertising pitchman, and his remaining co-defendant, Clarence “C.J” Stewart, a 54-year-old golfing buddy from North Las Vegas.
Both men have pleaded not guilty to 12 charges stemming from a heated encounter last September with two sports collectibles dealers peddling Simpson memorabilia.
Simpson said last fall that he put his faith in the jury system and was confident of an acquittal. A conviction could put him away for life.
“If I have any disappointment it’s that I wish a jury was here,” Simpson said in November, after a contentious four-day preliminary hearing in which prosecution witnesses were cast as opportunists, pimps, con artists and crooks.
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