Oj denied new trial

Whereas here, there seems to be substantial evidence of guilt. Simpson alleges that his attorney labored under an actual conflict, that he received ineffective assistance of counsel from both trial and appellate counsel, and that the state withheld exculpatory evidence," Judge Linda Marie Bell wrote.

Simpson's conviction. Simpson had asked for a new trial in May. Witnesses recounted the circumstances in that surrounded Simpson and some friends rushing into a Las Vegas hotel room, where they demanded the return of sports items.

The defense held that Simpson was trying to recover his own property, which he said was stolen. He has also said he didn't know his friends had brought guns to the hotel. In appealing for a new trial, Simpson argued that his attorney in the first trial, Yale Galanter, provided inadequate counsel.

But such an argument may be flawed. But it appears highly unlikely that the judge's ruling will be reversed. An appeals court therefore is highly likely to defer to the trial court's factual findings. Simpson probably has continued to move ahead with legal proceedings simply because he can, some say. In fact, the percentage of these kinds of appeals across the country that are successful is less than 1 percent, according to Bruce Jacob, law professor at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Fla.

After that, any errors that were raised were seen as not prejudicial. I guess this is how the OJ saga ends. Already a subscriber? Monitor journalism changes lives because we open that too-small box that most people think they live in. We believe news can and should expand a sense of identity and possibility beyond narrow conventional expectations. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier.

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. But you know what? We change lives. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. And we can prove it. Your subscription to The Christian Science Monitor has expired. Simpson, who was acquitted of the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goodman, was caught taking sports memorabilia at gunpoint from a Las Vegas hotel room in September and convicted of 12 counts of robbery, kidnapping, coercion and conspiracy.

The year-old Heisman Trophy winner maintains the times were stolen and rightfully his, and claims he was poorly represented by his lawyers at his trial, which landed him with a year prison sentence. A Nevada judge agreed last October to reopen the case to determine if Simpson's direct appeal for a new trial was valid, and then in July, a parole board reduced his sentence.

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