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Legal Rerun: O.J. Acquitted Again
Stop us if you've heard this before.
Once again, the Juice is loose--this time after an eight-person Florida jury found the former footballer not guilty of road-rage charges that could have sent him to prison for 16 years.
It took the multiethnic panel less than two hours of deliberations Wednesday to acquit Simpson of auto burglary and battery charges stemming from a December 2000 incident in which he allegedly went ballistic on another motorist.
With no witnesses and little evidence, the case boiled down to a he-said, she-said affair, with Simpson and the other driver, Jeffrey Pattinson, offering drastically different accounts of what went down over the three-day trial.
On the stand, Pattinson recounted the events thusly: He was cruising behind Simpson in the upscale Miami suburb of Kendall when Simpson apparently ran a stop sign. Pattinson said he flashed his headlights to get Simpson to pull over, only to have the NFL Hall of Famer turn into a "madman," leaping from his car, ripping the glasses off Pattinson's face and scratching his face in the process.
Simpson, who spent parts of Monday and Tuesday on the stand, countered that Pattinson was the one who triggered the altercation. The guy got behind me and he started beeping his horn...he was sitting on his horn," Simpson testified. "I got out of my car. I said, 'You can't do this. I got a couple kids in this car. You can't do it.' At that he blew up. He puffed up like a bull frog and went off."
Pattison, Simpson said, "was a guy who could have used some decaf coffee."
Prosecutors painted Simpson as unreliable on the stand, but the closest thing to a smoking gun they had was Simpson's thumb print on Pattinson's glasses.
The evidence was hardly a slam dunk, and the jury quickly rendered its verdict in favor of Simpson.
Simpson didn't comment afterward, but he was spotted mouthing "thank yous" to the jurors.
For those of you keeping score at home, Simpson now has a record of two wins and one loss in court battles. He was acquitted of the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ronald Goldman, but, in a later civil lawsuit, was found liable for their wrongful deaths and ordered to give the victims' families $33.5 million--much of which remains unpaid.
Simpson has lived in Florida for about a year.
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