You just can't get the goons these days – the two men who helped OJ Simpson carry out his alleged armed robbery of a hotel room full of OJ Simpson-related sports memorabilia have both pleaded guilty to the crime, dropping OJ further in it.
Sort of. The men – Walter Alexander and Charles Cashmore – have pleaded guilty to the heavily-reduced charges of conspiracy to commit robbery and accessory to robbery respectively, in return for testimonies against OJ Simpson. If found guilty of all the charges, OJ Simpson faces life in jail, unlike Alexander and Cashmore who hope to get away with suspended sentences and probation. So much for honour amongst thieves – but the prospect of freedom simply must have outweighed what OJ Simpson offered the pair to buy their silence – thought to be a second-hand VHS copy of The Naked Gun 33 1/3, three signed editions of If I Did It and novelty photo of OJ Simpson pretending to stab them with a banana.
OJ Simpson hasn't been in this much trouble since, oh, who are we kidding? OJ Simpson is always in trouble, whether he's writing books about how he murders people or getting refused food in restaurants or giving away his watches to dead men's families. But this time, the trouble that OJ Simpson is in might see him get thrown in the slammer for the rest of his life.
You know what for – for the time that OJ Simpson apparently burst into a hotel room with two gun-wielding men and started to scream "You think you can steal my shit?" at some confused sports merchandise dealers who presumably weren't aware that they had stolen any of OJ Simpson's shit whatsoever because the fecal matter of acquitted murder suspects just doesn't have that much of a market value these days. This move got OJ Simpson arrested for armed robbery, along with his two supposed accomplices who seem to be doing all they can to dob OJ Simpson in.
Walter Alexander and Charles Cashmore had both decided to accept plea bargains with prosecutors whereby they'd admit that OJ Simpson wanted them to bring guns to the raid in return for reduced charges. And now the deal is done and the pair have both pleaded guilty to hardly anything at all, as E! Online reports:
Two of O.J. Simpson's codefendants in the former Naked Gun star's Las Vegas armed robbery case pleaded guilty Tuesday to lesser charges… Walter Alexander, a 46-year-old real-estate salesman and former Simpson golfing buddy hailing from Mesa, Arizona, was rung up for a felony count of conspiracy to commit robbery. Moments later, Charles Cashmore, a 40-year-old Las Vegas bartender and sometime deejay, copped to felony accessory to robbery. "These guys are basically pleading guilty to offenses they didn't commit," [Simpson's lawyer Gabriel] Grasso told E! Online. "That's sort of shocking to me… because I can guarantee you that none of these guys was walking into that room to commit a robbery."
So now while Walter Alexander and Charles Cashmore have copped to lesser charges – that could still see them getting six and five years in jail respectively – OJ Simpson still faces the ten felony charges of 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, while three more of OJ Simpson's henchmen face nine charges and all face life in jail if they're found guilty of everything.
A preliminary hearing in the case is set for early next month, after which a lengthy trial is expected to take place. Of course, being no fool OJ Simpson plans to attend the trial dressed as a middle-aged semi-retired lesbian, since it clearly worked so well for Phil Spector.
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