O J Simpson

The suit O.J. Simpson wore the day he was acquitted of murder charges hangs in the bedroom closet of a house south of Fresno. Or maybe it doesn't. It depends on the mood of the balding, bespectacled former sports agent who owns the house and maybe the suit. "I've had it in my possession since the morning after the verdict," Mike Gilbert declared at the start of a recent interview. Twenty minutes of circuitous conversation later, he backtracked: "When I told you that before, I wasn't under oath."

O.J. Simpson's performance in his as-yet incomplete deposition has created new problems for his own lawyers and new opportunities for the attorneys representing the families and estates of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in their wrongful death suits against the former football star, leading legal analysts said Saturday. The Times' publication Saturday of extended excerpts from Simpson's five-day interrogation by Daniel M.

O.J. CITY One week of news, in capsule form, from this, the base camp for the Trial of the Century, the home of America's favorite whodunit, the very center of the Universe of News. Read this, and understand everything of importance--apparently--that happened last week: O. J. SIMPSON JURY TOURS CRIME SCENE O.J. SIMPSON NEIGHBORS COPE WITH 'CIRCUS' O.J. JUROR WEARS 49ER CAP; PROSECUTORS TROUBLED (Prop. 187 ruled unconstitutional) BEFORE TOUR, JUDGE ITO ORDERS PICTURE OF O.J.'

The judge in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping case ordered a man to be brought to court with a recording that may contradict sworn testimony from a key witness against Simpson. Lawyer Robert Lucherini told Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass on Thursday that he heard Kevin Mikell, a former client of his, play an audio recording in which Michael McClinton contradicts testimony he gave in a preliminary hearing in November.

When he's not on trial, O.J. Simpson wakes up at 5 a.m. and is driving to a golf course in Miami by 6:30. He takes an afternoon nap and goes to bed early. In between, the football great is beset by requests. Strangers want to take his picture. Fans want to buy him a drink. And, according to audio recordings played in his Las Vegas robbery-kidnap trial, men who call themselves his friends try to cash in on his infamy.

In the end, O.J. Simpson did himself in. Jurors who convicted the football great and his codefendant, Clarence Stewart, of 12 counts each said Sunday that hours of secret recordings convinced them that the men had robbed two memorabilia dealers at gunpoint last year. Though Simpson's attorneys, for example, said he never saw a weapon or asked anyone to bring one to a Palace Station hotel room, he was secretly taped afterward talking about "the piece."

The latest chapter of O.J. Simpson's legal travails comes to a close today when he is sentenced for leading a ragtag band of hangers-on in the robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in a cramped Las Vegas hotel room. Simpson, 61, faces life in prison after his conviction Oct. 3 for kidnapping and armed robbery, among other charges. The Heisman Trophy winner and NFL Hall of Fame running back is being held at the Clark County Detention Center as inmate No. 02648927.

A federal judge in Los Angeles has frozen the money O.J. Simpson received as an advance for a book he wrote describing how he could have killed ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. The action came after Simpson said the advance, estimated at $1 million, had been spent. The book's publication was scrubbed after a public outcry.

A federal judge Wednesday refused to hear a lawsuit filed by the father of murder victim Ronald Goldman seeking money paid to O.J. Simpson for his book "If I Did It." Simpson was acquitted in October 1995 of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson, his former wife, and her friend Goldman. But a civil jury later returned a $33.5-million judgment against Simpson, ruling that he was liable to the victims' families for their wrongful deaths. They have not received substantial money.

O.J. Simpson must give any money a Florida lawyer is holding for him to the family of murder victim Ronald Goldman to help satisfy a multimillion-dollar wrongful death judgment, a judge has ruled. An L.A. County Superior Court judge said Tuesday that "any and all monies, accounts receivable and all other rights to payment" held by attorney Leonardo D. Starke for Simpson must be assigned to Goldman's father, Fred.