O.J. Simpson, 76, seems frail whereas strolling with a cane in Las Vegas
- The former NFL working again was noticed close to a strip mall in Sin City on Sunday
- Simpson slammed the sentence handed to ex-Raider star Henry Ruggs in August
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O.J. Simpson was noticed wanting extraordinarily frail whereas strolling by means of the streets of Las Vegas with a cane, 28 years after being acquitted of homicide within the Trial of the Century.
The 76-year-old former NFL working again gave the impression to be gloomy whereas carrying darkish slippers round a strip mall, together with his strolling stick in a single hand, and his telephone within the different, on Sunday.
He additionally wore black and white sweatpants and a jacket with a cream polo underneath it to finish his look.
In October, Simpson hardly seemed recognizable whereas donning a polo of his school staff – the University of Southern California (USC) – and carrying groceries round in Sin City.
Two months earlier, in August, Simpson raised eyebrows after he publicly criticized the felony sentencing of former Las Vegas Raiders extensive receiver Henry Ruggs. He even in contrast it to his personal jail stretch for armed theft in 2008.
Ex-NFL star Orenthal James ‘O.J.’ Simpson strolling by means of the streets of Las Vegas, Sunday
The 76-year-old former working again seemed gloomy whereas utilizing a cane to assist with strolling
The 1973 NFL MVP stated he was baffled when Ruggs, 24, acquired a three-to-ten 12 months sentence, regardless of inflicting the loss of life of a 23-year-old girl after driving drunk at over 155mph down a Las Vegas strip in November 2021.
‘The math simply doesn’t add up,’ stated Simpson, who was locked up for 9 years after attempting to steal sports activities memorabilia, which he claims was his personal, from a Las Vegas resort room with a gun in September 2007.
‘I do know I went to varsity on a soccer scholarship however in some way this math shouldn’t be including as much as me,’ he additional stated.
Simpson was not alone in believing Ruggs might have gotten off frivolously for his function within the November 2021 crash that killed 23-year-old Tina Tintor and her canine.
At one time, the previous Las Vegas Raiders star may have confronted 50 years behind bars, however reached a plea deal in May to plead responsible to at least one felony rely of DUI.
Simpson raised eyebrows in August when slamming ex-Raider Henry Ruggs’ felony sentence
Simpson was acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her good friend Ron Goldman in a well-known trial aired on tv internationally in 1995
Hours after the sentence was learn in the identical courthouse he was convicted in 14 years in the past, Simpson shared his ideas on the court docket proceedings together with his 900,000 followers on X, previously referred to as Twitter.
‘You’re driving a automobile at roughly 160 miles per hour on a public road and find yourself killing a woman and her canine and also you get three to 10 years?’ Simpson stated, noting Ruggs’ crime.
In comparability to his personal arrest, he stated: ‘You go to a resort room, that you simply’re invited to, to retrieve your individual private stolen property – property I now have as a result of it was dominated to be mine by the state of California – and also you get 9 to 33 years?’
‘Same courthouse, similar metropolis, similar state. I do not know. Somehow simply doesn’t add as much as me… I’m simply saying,’ he completed.
Once a well-liked determine with the American public, Simpson’s skilled success was overshadowed by his trial and controversial acquittal for the murders of his former spouse Nicole Brown and her good friend Ron Goldman.