OJ Simpson back in court to challenge 2008 Las Vegas robbery conviction

former football star whose murder acquittal captivated America says 1,995 lawyers in the trial of 2008 were insufficient flight

Like a recurring nightmare, the OJ Simpson back in court in Las Vegas on Monday will remind Americans of a tragedy that became a national obsession in the process of changing attitudes countries in the justice system, the media and celebrities.

His demonstration in 1995 is the stuff of legends, the sudden fall of a Hall of Fame football player at the top of the veneration of an accused murderer who, although acquitted of murdering his ex- woman and her friend was never paid in the public mind.

But less is remembered for testing 2008 in Las Vegas that Simpson was sent to prison by a strange hotel room burglary in which the defendant said he just wanted celebrity retrieve objects staff who, according to him, it was stolen.

When it comes to court on Monday, it is a conviction for armed robbery and kidnapping, which will be before a Nevada judge. Simpson is seeking freedom in what lawyers often call a "Hail Mary move," a writ of habeas corpus. He said he had misrepresented that his conviction should be quashed and a new trial ordered. Most defendants lose these movements, but in this case nobody takes paris on the result.

"Nothing is the same anymore when do is involved," said Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson, who watched the Simpson trial in Los Angeles. "An OJ case is not like any other case."

With Simpson, the past is always a prologue, and if the memories of his murder trial will inevitably serve as a backdrop throughout the hearing in Las Vegas. This case, although less dramatic in nature, involves much more disastrous consequences.

now 65, Simpson has spent the past four years in prison and must serve at least nine years of his maximum sentence of 33 years before he is even eligible for parole. It would be 70 by then. If Simpson does not win a new trial, could spend the rest of his life locked up.

"I try to explain to people how someone could come out of nowhere to live the American dream and then lose everything," said the former director and officer of Simpson, Mike Gilbert, who is expected to testify at the hearing. "I have trouble with it."

Close friend Jim Barnett, a venture capitalist who visited Simpson in jail several times, which he describes as more gray paunchier and limping a bit more these days the old knee injury .

Simpson, Barnett said, is a favorite among prisoners. He served as director of the prison gym and coaching a baseball team champion prison. "He gets along well with everyone there," he said. "But it is slow. The last time I saw him he had gotten pretty heavy."

Before the "trial of the century", there was little televised trials, no-show celebrity justice and a minimum of talking heads on television Outlook Conferences famous court accused. Simpson murder trial, televised gavel hammer has the legal arena to house lawyers and turned into stars.
• And Simpson, the quintessential American sports hero, was killed by a trial that could win even with a verdict of "not guilty." Too many people want to pay for the death of his beautiful ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, found stabbed to death in front of his Los Angeles condo.
Too many people believe that Simpson had gotten away with it.

The man who was known for his phenomenal career in a football field and advertisements Hertz car ran back to be named as a suspect in the murders of June 1994. The sight of police chasing one of the most famous in the United States through Los Angeles freeways men was a picture of the history books. The slow hunting white Ford Bronco is part of the legend.

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