It was thirteen years to the day that O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the charges of murdering Ron Goldman and his ex wife Nicole Brown Simpson that he was found guilty of twelve charges he was accused of in a new armed kidnapping trial. These new charges were all centered around the fact that Simpson and some accomplices stormed into a hotel room in Las Vegas to recover some valuable memorabilia that he said was stolen from him.

The main evidence that caused so much controversy in this trial was that there was a gun that was used by one of the accomplices to keep the memorabilia dealers inside the hotel room and the question was whether or not Simpson knew there was a gun being brought to the scene. He said he did not know there was a gun, but since he was recorded on audio tape telling his friends to not let anyone leave the room, that in itself was enough to indicate that he knowingly meant to keep those people in the room whether they wanted to stay or not and whether he knew there was a gun or not.

You would have had to have been living on another planet not to know about the murder charges that were brought against Simpson years ago concerning his ex wife and her friend Goldman. Many people believed whole heartily that Simpson was indeed guilty of these murders and those same people are elated that he has finally gotten what he deserved all along in their eyes and that is jail time. They believe that justice has finally been served to someone who committed a double murder and got off entirely free.

To be fair, there are others that believed just as strongly that Simpson was innocent of the murder charges that were brought against him years ago and these people believe that jurors who thought Simpson guilty of those murders might have been unfair in their judgment in the new charges of kidnapping and the rest. Even though jurors are supposed to be unbiased and fair in every sense sometimes when a defendant already has a reputation that has been as severely damaged as that of Simpson it can be difficult for jurors to not be swayed to some degree.

The lawyers defending Simpson in this case are planning to file an appeal and it is likely that the new trials will take at least another year or two to be finished with. In the meantime Simpson will be going to jail and the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, who both believed that Simpson was guilty of their murders, are probably celebrating a long awaited intervention in the life of Simpson. Whether anyone else believes that Simpson was guilty of the murders or guilty in this new case, these two families must feel some relief at long last.

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