Sports in the Courts: OJ's Baaaaack

Published: September 24, 2007, 12:09 pm

Tags: christopher fusco, las vegas, o j simpson, sports in the courts

Can this really be happening? Are we fixated on O.J. Simpson once again? Can I ignore that the O.J. "If I Did It" book is going to be a bestseller? No, its true, O.J.'s making a comeback, of sorts. The O.J. murder case was once characterized as containing a "mountain of evidence." However, this Las Vegas caper may better be described as having a "mountain of weirdness." While, the prosecutor in Las Vegas is going hard against O.J. and his band of merry men, this case is really bizarre.In sum, O.J. (and his co-defendants) are accused of committing armed robbery in a criminal attempt to recover items of O.J.'s sports memorabilia. According to published reports, O.J. was alerted by an individual named Thomas Riccio that two men were selling O.J.'s sports collectibles without O.J.'s knowledge. O.J., then, conspired with others to retrieve the items at gunpoint. We know that two guns have been recovered and that a hotel security video shows O.J.'s men taking

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