The 61-year-old Hall of Famer paid attention stone-faced, his wrists in shackles, as Judge Jackie Glass pronounced the sentence — 33 years behind bars with eligibility for parole after less than a third of that.
Seconds before, Simpson made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, simultaneouslng expressing regret for the robbery and trying to justify his actions.
He choked back tears as he told her: “I didn’t want to steal anything from anyone. … I’m sorry, sorry.”
The judge has continuously stated that her sentence in the Las Vegas case had nothing to do with Simpson’s 1995 acquittal in the homicide of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
“I’m not here to try and cause any retribution or any payback for anything else,” Glass said.
OJ finally going to the big house I know it because he black…what about all the injustice he stood for getting away with the Nicole murders….