The Juice Got Squeezed For Up To 33 Years, Was It Payback?

From The Huffington Post:

A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as much as 33 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity."

The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled and stone-faced as Judge Jackie Glass rattled off the punishment. Moments before, Simpson made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, simultaneously apologizing for the holdup as a foolish mistake and trying to justify his actions.

He choked back tears as he told her: "I didn't want to steal anything from anyone. ... I'm sorry, sorry."

Simpson said he was simply trying to retrieve sports memorabilia and other mementos, including his first wife's wedding ring, from two dealers when he stormed a Las Vegas hotel room on Sept. 13, 2007.

But the judge emphasized that it was a violent confrontation in which at least one gun was drawn, and she said someone could have been shot. She said the evidence was overwhelming, with the planning, the confrontation itself and the aftermath all recorded on audio or videotape.

Glass, a no-nonsense judge known for her tough sentences, imposed such a complex series of consecutive and concurrent sentences that even many attorneys watching the case were confused as to how much time Simpson got.

Simpson could serve up to 33 years but could be eligible for parole after nine years, according to Elana Roberto, the judge's clerk.

I think OJ Simpson got the correct verdict in his murder trial, and I don't think he should have had to tip around for the rest of his life so people didn't perceive him to be arrogant or rubbing their faces in it because he wanted to go golfing. He is the poster child for "Don't mess with our white girls!" every since that day, and black men have carried this weight since the days of slavery when blacks were hung for looking at a white woman. This is why a lot of black mothers tell their sons to "leave those white girls alone" because "white society" will not treat you the same if things go wrong. OJ is the one black man who is perceived to have gotten away with something against a white woman. Had he been married to a black woman, nobody would care if he was found not guilty. His life would have gone on. But because she was white, he deserves to rot in hell, or die in jail, EVEN IF he was proved to be innocent in a court of law.