Tại sao OJ Simpson bị 33 năm tù

Tại sao OJ Simpson bị 33 năm tù
   

Tiền luật sư rất nặng $570,000.00 còn bị xử tù 33 năm

Đọc bài viết mới đây của Martha Neil chúng ta thấy OJ Simpson đã phạm những lỗi lầm quá nghiêm trọng dẫn đến bị án tù quá nặng nề đến 33 năm.

OJ Simpson không nghe theo lời khuyên của luật sư Yale Galanter là gọi điện thoại nhờ cảnh sát đòi lại những tài sản riêng tư thay vì kéo theo nhóm bạn có trang bị súng để đến giật lại.

Đến khi bị truy tố luật sư Yale Galanter cho biết công tố viên đã đề nghị bị án tù từ 2 đến 5 năm thôi nhưng OJ Simpson vẫn không đồng ý.

Kết quả OJ  Simpson đã bị xử rất nặng 33 năm tù và còn phải trả lệ phí cho luật sư Yale Galanter đến 570,000 đô la.

 

Lawyer testifies OJ Simpson knew about guns, said ‘No deal. No way.’ when told of plea offer

Posted May 17, 2013 5:35 PM CDT
By Martha Neil

 

Reluctantly testifying about his former client, O.J. Simpson, a Miami attorney on Friday contradicted key aspects of Simpson's earlier testimony during a hearing about whether the former football great should be granted a new trial in his Nevada armed robbery case.

Called to the stand by prosecutors and reminded that Simpson has waived the privilege that would normally apply to lawyer-client communications, Yale Galanter said he didn't have Simpson testify during the robbery trial about not seeing guns because his client knew ahead of time that some of his cohorts in the "sting" operation would be armed.

The attorney also testified that he advised his client to call the police instead of trying to get stolen sports memorabilia back on his own and, in response to Simpson's earlier testimony that he paid $500,000 to Galanter for legal costs only, because the attorney agreed to take his robbery case on a pro bono basis, said "I don't do anything for free," according to the Associated Press, the Nation Now page of the Los Angeles Times and the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Galanter said he had dinner with Simpson, as a matter of friendship, while on a trip to Las Vegas concerning another legal matter, shortly before the armed robbery took place in a Las Vegas casino hotel room.

Lawyers for Simpson, supported by other attorneys who worked with Galanter on the defense side during the armed robbery trial in 2008, said he should get a new trial because Galanter was ineffective and put his own financial interests ahead of his client's case. (Other former Simpson lawyers and Galanter have also been involved in a fee dispute and a related defamation case.)

But Galanter, who according to the Review-Journal was paid $572,000 for his work on the robbery case, said that just wasn't true, the AP reported.

"When you look at the entire trial, I don't think I could have fought harder, done more," he testified. "I put every ounce of blood, sweat and soul into it."

Galanter also disagreed with Simpson's claim that the lawyer didn't tell the client of plea offers prior to Simpson's conviction and sentencing to a 9- to 33-year prison term.

When the district attorney offered a five- to seven-year term, Simpson said "No deal. No way," Galanter said, and he said Simpson also subsequently turned down a better deal.

"I went out in the hall and said to O.J, 'There is an offer of two to five.' He said, 'See if they will take a year,'" Galanter testified. "I discussed a year with them, and they said no and the trial went on."

An Associated Press timeline lists the events that led up to this week's Las Vegas hearing on Simpson's habeas corpus petition in the Clark County District Court case.

Now 65, Simpson is serving a nine- to 33-year prison term. Absent a successful appeal, he won't be eligible for release until he is 70.