A NEW APPEAL BY O.J. SIMPSON

Lawyers argue that O.J. was convicted of robbery because his Nevada jury believed he got away with a double murder in California

Simpson’s lawyers filed a new appeal Wednesday with the Nevada Supreme Court asking for a review of his 2008 robbery conviction. They are seeking his release from a Nevada prison, arguing that his Las Vegas jury was biased against O.J. because he was acquitted in 1995 of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.

Simpson is serving a prison term of nine to 33 years for the 2007 robbery of some memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room. O.J. will not be eligible for parole until 2017.

I was convinced from the beginning that O.J. murdered his ex-wife and Goldman. He was acquitted due to the ineptitude of chief prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden, and the stupidity of Lance Ito, the judge in his Los Angeles murder trial. Those stumblebum prosecutors should never have gotten sucked into letting Simpson try on that glove found at the crime scene. And it didn't help any when Ito, one of the most idiotic judges of all time, allowed the defense to ask LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman if he ever used the ‘N’ word.

The leather glove found by Fuhrman at the crime scene had been traced to Simpson. Between its discovery and the trial, the glove which had been soaked in blood from O.J., Nicole and Goldman, was frozen and unfrozen several times. Anyone with half a brain would have surmised that those factors were likely to have affected the size of the leather glove. But defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran goaded Darden into asking Simpson to put on the glove. The rest is history: ‘If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit!’ Darden’s stupidity gave the nearly all black jury the excuse to acquit Simpson sans any serious deliberations.

Attorneys Patricia Palm, Ozzie Fumo and Tom Pitaro are representing Simpson this time around. I wonder where the money is coming from for their work on this appeal. Either O.J. has a ton of cash stashed where Ron Goldman’s parents can’t find it or he has some fat-cat benefactors shoveling out the dough to speed up his return to a lavish life-style in Florida. Just don’t tell me the lawyers are representing O.J. out of the goodness of their hearts.

I suspect it was quite possible that most, if not all, of the Las Vegas jurors in Simpson's robbery trial believed he got away with murder. Thus the jury may very well have been biased against the murderer of Nicole and Ron. So what! The evidence was overwhelming that Simpson had orchestrated and participated in the robbery. I just hope the Nevada Supreme Court sees it the same way.