OJ Simpson's attorneys are planning to try to convince a group of Nevada judges to overturn his 2007 conviction in a hotel room robbery this week. They worry about time, since they are only going to have a few minutes to make their case.
"We only have 15 minutes to make our arguments. It really is daunting," Yale Galanter said Thursday. "But what the public doesn't know is that there are hundreds of pages of briefs that have already been filed."
Simpson won't be in court with his attorneys, and neither will his co-defendant, Clarence "C.J." Stewart. Their attorneys are planning to argue that Simpson's fame and acquittal of the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman biased the jurors in his earlier trial.
Simpson is going to be 63-years old next month, and Stewart is now 56. Simpson was sentenced nine to 33 years in prison for his role in the crime.
"This was a referendum on O.J. Simpson's life. This was payback," Galanter said. "This was not about what happened here in Nevada."
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