The OJ Simpson armed robbery trial has already been dragging on for what seems like a thousand years, but finally we’re onto guns.
According to one of OJ Simpson’s goons in court yesterday, OJ must have known that some of his henchmen were carrying guns because he shouted “Put the guns away,” at them during the raid. Unless he didn’t, which is what another witness is saying.
Incidentally, Charles Ehrlich – the man who claims that OJ Simpson knew about the guns – is an old friend of his. Or at least he was until he pleaded guilty to lesser charges in exchange for a testimony against Simpson, anyway. Now the pair have probably fallen out. And you know what happens to you if you fall out with OJ Simpson, don’t you.
You get one less Christmas card a year, that’s what. Why, what did you think we meant?
We have to admit, for a case that could send a man to jail for the rest of his life, the OJ Simpson armed robbery trial isn’t exactly exciting, is it?
It should be exciting – believe the prosecutors and you’ll know that last year OJ Simpson smashed into a hotel room with a small armed of tooled-up thugs and held everyone hostage briefly. That’s exciting, right? Sure it is. Then why isn’t the trial itself exciting?
This is how dull the OJ Simpson trial is – the other day a man nearly had a heart attack and barely anyone even bothered to pay attention. Not even the secret tape – the cornerstone of the entire prosecution – managed to get much response from anyone other than “Huh? What’s he saying? He wants them to give him his sheep? Why, that hardly makes any sense at all.”
Well, you asked for it. Now the OJ Simpson trial is going to get crazy exciting? You know why? Guns. Guns are exciting, aren’t they? Especially when a man can definitely prove that OJ Simpson knew that some of the goons he’d employed to accompany him of his hotel room raid were armed. You’re going down, Simpson!
Charles Ehrlich was the man who OJ Simpson sent into the hotel room to pose as a buyer before the raid, and he’s got proof that OJ Simpson knew about the guns. The LA Times reports:
“Put the gun away,” Charles B. Ehrlich quoted Simpson as saying to one of their associates during the Sept. 13, 2007, confrontation. Shortly after the incident, Ehrlich said Simpson muttered to himself: “Why did I tell those guys to come along?”
Now, it doesn’t matter that Thomas Riccio, the auctioneer who set up the encounter who was in the room during the raid and made the secret recordings of it, didn’t hear OJ Simpson say this. And it also doesn’t matter that Ehrlich might only be making these claims about OJ Simpson because he was given a lighter sentence for his role in the incident if he promised to testify against him.
Because saying that you think you heard OJ Simpson say something out of earshot of everyone else is definitely proof of OJ Simpson’s guilt. Definitely. Isn’t it?
Not really? Bugger. The trial continues, then. More’s the pity.