Homicidalheathen Posted November 8, 2007 Posted November 8, 2007 And I should know. He looks like my dad (expression wise) right before and after he quit drinking heavy cold turkey after years of it. he really does. LAS VEGAS — One of two memorabilia dealers O.J. Simpson is accused of robbing testified Thursday that the former football star burst into a hotel room with a handful of other men, including one wielding a gun, and carried off hundreds of items. Bruce Fromong said he had expected to meet with an anonymous buyer on September 13, when Simpson arrived and shouted that the items belonged to him. "O.J. was screaming, 'This is all my s---. This all belongs to me. You stole this from me. Let's pack up. Let's get out of here,'" Fromong said. Simpson and two co-defendants are charged with robbery, kidnapping and other offenses. The hearing is to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to take them to trial. Fromong, who testified he has known Simpson since the early 1990s, said the confrontation lasted no more than five or six minutes and ended with the group stuffing hundreds of items into pillowcases and leaving the hotel room. Fromong said some of the items had nothing to do with Simpson but were lithographs of football great Joe Montana and items signed by baseball stars Duke Snider and Pete Rose that he thought he could sell. At one point, as everything was being packed up, Fromong said he told Simpson: "O.J., those are my Joe Montana lithos. "I said, 'O.J., that's my stuff. That doesn't have anything to do with anything." On Thursday, Simpson arrived at the courthouse in a black Hummer, surrounded by a contingent of lawyers and about a dozen uniformed officers. He did not stop to talk or make eye contact as he made his way into the building and through a metal detector. In Simpson's mind, according to a close friend, the Las Vegas charges are rooted in the former football star being found not guilty in the 1994 slayings of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. "He believes he's being tried for that now," said Tom Scotto, 45, a North Miami Beach, Florida, auto body shop owner. "He's taking this serious. It is serious," said Scotto, who traveled from Florida with Simpson and sat in a courtroom gallery with about 50 spectators. Among them was Simpson's older sister, Mattie Shirley Simpson, Baker, 64, of Elk Grove, California Simpson and co-defendants Clarence "C.J." Stewart and Charles Ehrlich face 12 charges, including kidnapping, armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy and coercion. A kidnapping conviction could result in a sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole. An armed robbery conviction could mean mandatory prison tim
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