There's an unwritten rule when it comes to forming a posse for a heist, and that's to pick people you trust and not just a bunch of blokes you met at a wedding – OJ Simpson ignored this rule and now he's paying dearly for it.
When OJ Simpson burst into a Las Vegas hotel room with some accomplices and angrily demanded that a merchandise salesman gave him back collections of his faecal matter – or whatever – he must have assumed that his heavies had his back for life no matter what happened, but he couldn't have been more wrong. Two of OJ Simpson's gang o' crooks have already made deals with prosecutors to testify against OJ in court, claiming that there were guns at the incident and that everything was all planned out beforehand. It's a sad world we live in, that's for sure – if you can't even trust your gang of heavy-browed, knuckle-dragging, clod-jawed, undereducated hired goons, who can you trust? Who?
After he was caught allegedly robbing a sports merchandise dealer at gunpoint in a hotel room last month, OJ Simpson now stands to spend the rest of his natural life in jail, and for what? For wanting to protect his own possessions? For trying to make a better life for his family? Well, no – if we're going to go into specifics, OJ Simpson will go to jail for 10 felony charges including conspiracy to commit kidnapping, conspiracy to commit robbery, burglary with a deadly weapon, coercion with a deadly weapon, and two counts each of robbery with a deadly weapon, kidnapping with a deadly weapon and assault with a deadly weapon. But, hey, you get the idea.
And although OJ Simpson has posted bail and is enjoying the life of a free man who isn't allowed to leave the country or even go out in public without people making claims on his fake watches, there still must be a part of OJ that worries that if he goes down for armed robbery he'll never be able to indulge his passion of getting refused dinner in steakhouses again. But that can only happen if prosecuters determine that his heist on the sports merchandise dealers was preordained and that there were guns present – and that's not likely so long as the thugs OJ recruited for the heist keep their traps shut.
Yeah, they haven't. Two of OJ Simpson's gang o' crooks have already reached plea deals with prosecutors on the basis that they testify against OJ Simpson when the case reaches court. The New York Daily News reports:
Golfing buddy Walter Alexander, 46, agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy in exchange for his testimony about the Juice's role in a wild memorabilia heist at a Las Vegas hotel Sept. 13. Co-defendant Charles Cashmore also agreed to testify that guns were "brandished" during the confrontation for a single felony charge of "accessory to robbery." Prosecutors now have the one-two punch they wanted: witnesses placing two guns at the scene and a Simpson pal admitting the plan was hatched in advance. Cashmore… said he was doing "what's right" – just what his mother taught him to do.
And quite right too – our mother also taught us to charge into hotel rooms with guns screaming "You think you can steal my shit?" at a couple of petrified men because one of the world's most notoriously suspicious celebrities asked us to, only to subsequently drop him in the shit because an intimidating man promised to shave a couple of years off our jail sentences.
But let's not write OJ Simpson's chances of surviving his court battle off entirely just yet, because nobody knows all the facts yet. Those are scheduled to come out in the second quarter of 2008, when OJ Simpson published If I Did It I Probably Would Have Chosen Slightly More Loyal Henchmen.
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OJ Heist Pals Strike Deal To Testify Against Him – New York Daily News
Hi5 Codes says
OJ Simpson seems to make series of bad choices… what a joke
Mithaearon says
I dunno he made a good choice in his last lawyer?
Tom Norton says
OJ wanted his memorabilia back.Why doesen’t he just sign is name on some more stuff?
And, doesn’t the memorabilia belong to the Goldman’s from the $33 million dollar law suit?