OJ Simpson’s First Nine Years of Retirement Home Come Free

O.J. Simpson was sentenced to at least nine years in prison today following his conviction on charges of armed robbery and kidnapping. Simpson begged for mercy in sentencing and received little, though presiding judge Jackie Glass said this: ↵↵⇥“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.” ↵↵That’s an astonishing and frank statement from a judge in any case, but a necessary one: that the client is, by almost every standard, at least universally associated with the deaths of two people. It has nothing to do with the current case, sure: but a judge finding an elegant way to state that, “Yes, everyone’s pretty sure you caused the deaths of two people. Let’s just get that out of the way first” is astonishing.
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As sad as OJ’s post-trial life has been, it’s about to get worse. He will serve those six years, and could serve more depending on his behavior. When he gets out, he will be at least sixty-seven years old and living off whatever’s left of his assets and his NFL pension, and even those are probably subject to consumption under the terms of the payout from the civil suit he lost to the Goldman family in the death of their son, Ronald. (His homes are heavily mortgaged and have multiple liens placed on them, according to an October

article.)
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↵He will have to scrape by on pension checks from the NFL and the Screen Actors’ Guild. He’ll be an old man, and the likelihood of his health improving while incarcerated is slim. He will broken, poorer than he’s been since he was 18, and will be a convicted felon.
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↵As bad as all of this is, he will still be alive, an option not available to Ron Goldman or Nicole Brown-Simpson. He’s got that much going for him.↵