With opening arguments set to begin Monday in the bizarro armed robbery-kidnapping of two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas casino hotel room, it appears that O.J. Simpson, like the proverbial cat, has finally run out of lives.
Simpson and Clarence Stewart, one of the five other men originally charged in the September 2007 incident, face a dozen charges. The four others have pleaded guilty and will testify against The Juice.
Simpson and Stewart have pleaded not guilty, while Simpson says he was trying to recover items stolen from him and did not see any weapons despite substantial testimony at a preliminary hearing to the contrary.
In a development that recalled the racial issues surrounding Simpson’s 1995 trial for the deaths of wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman and his subsequent acquittal, Simpson and Stewart contend that African Americans were systematically excluded from the Las Vegas jury.
Nine women and three men, none of them African American, were selected as jurors. One of the six alternates is black.
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