O.J. Simpson Gets at Least 15 Years in Prison

O.J. Simpson was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday for armed robbery, conspiracy to kidnap and assault with a deadly weapon.

The sentencing comes 13 years after he was acquitted in the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry for all of it,” a choked up Simpson, 61, told a Las Vegas, Nevada judge before his sentencing. “I didn’t mean to hurt anybody and I didn’t mean to steal from anybody.”

The judge, Jackie Glass, said Simpson’s actions could have caused “a very violent event.

“Guns were brought. The potential for harm to occur in that room were tremendous,” she said.

Simpson will be eligible for parole after six years.

Glass stressed that she was sentencing Simpson solely for the robbery case in Las Vegas, and not for any of his past actions.

“I’m not here to sentence Mr. Simpson for what happened previously,” she said. “I’m not here to try and cause any retribution or any payback for anything else.”

Simpson was found guilty on all 12 counts, including armed robbery and kidnapping, on Oct. 3 – 13 years to the day after his murder acquittal.

Along with an accomplice Clarence Stewart (who was also sentenced to 15 years), the former football player led memorabilia dealers Bruce L. Fromong and Alfred Beardsley to believe a prospective buyer was coming to their casino hotel room to browse sports memorabilia in September 2007.

Instead, Simpson and his co-horts rushed into the room with guns, stuffed the memorabilia into pillowcases and fled.

The incident was recorded on camera, and it was later given to media outlets.

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