O.J. Simpson Asks for “The Same Jury as Last Time”

LAS VEGAS - Jury selection was halted in O.J. Simpson’s robbery and kidnapping trial yesterday when Simpson’s lawyers filed a motion asking that the same jury panel that acquitted him of murdering his wife in 1995 be appointed to decide this case. 

“The jurors who adjudicated the previous case already know me; they know the kind of man I am,” Simpson’s motion said.  “In contrast, appointing a brand new jury that would have to get to know me all over again would unnecessarily squander precious judicial resources.”

Simpson denies charges that he entered a Las Vegas hotel room on September 13 2007 to rob a man of sports memorabilia.  He maintains that he went to the room to find his wife’s real killer, which he says has been his overriding objective since his murder acquittal.

Nevada officials, hoping to avoid the tortoise pace of Simpson’s eight-month-long murder trial in 1995, have appointed Judge Judith Sheindlin, known to television audiences across America as Judge Judy, to put the case in hyper-drive. 

Judge Judy said she will hear all testimony in eleven minutes.  “Then we’ll have a commercial, then I’ll come back with my verdict.”

Sep 9

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